Why I Stopped Booking Roundtrip Flights For years, I assumed booking a roundtrip flight was simply how travel worked. Pick your destination, choose your return date, and call it a day. Now, I rarely book roundtrip tickets. Whether I’m paying cash or redeeming points, I almost always book two separate one-way flights instead. It isn’t…
This is the final post in my Central Europe series. If you’re just joining, start with How a Business Class Redemption Turned Into a Two-Week Central Europe Trip. When I booked a business class redemption to Warsaw, I already had a route in mind. The trip wasn’t spontaneous. Before I even left home, I had…
This is part of my Central Europe series. If you’re coming from Bosnia and Herzegovina, start with Mostar: Bosnia’s Bridge Between Worlds. By the time I arrived in Dubrovnik, I had already completed the eighth transportation leg of this Central Europe adventure. Two trains. Six buses. Countless historic centers. And somehow, one of the destinations…
This is part of my Central Europe series. If you’re coming from Croatia’s coast, start with Split: Roman History Meets the Adriatic. Before arriving in Bosnia and Herzegovina, I knew remarkably little about the country. I could point to it on a map. I knew it had once been part of Yugoslavia. And I knew…
This is part of my Central Europe series. If you’re coming from Croatia’s capital, start with Zagreb: Croatia’s Overlooked Capital. After a single night in Zagreb, another early bus awaited. This time, however, I was finally heading toward the Croatia I thought I was coming to see. Before arriving in the country, the images that…