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Trip-Hop

@trip-hop

I'll do my best to expose the overrated and underused.

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Trip-Hop
@trip-hop Sep 1, 2026, 6:02 AM UTC

Travel scams: The really cheap taxi ride to tourist hot-spots

This scam really should be something that everyone already knows about but just a few days ago I ran into someone that got ripped off by this scam in the past month. I thought that this sort of thing…

124 upvotes 1 replies $5.08
Trip-Hop
@trip-hop Aug 24, 2026, 4:04 AM UTC

USA has the only airports in the world with no international transit lounges

I don't know exactly when it happened, but I became aware of this only after trying to fly from Central America to Asia in the past few years. Perhaps this rule has existed for a very long time but t…

117 upvotes 4 replies $4.89
Trip-Hop
@trip-hop Aug 20, 2026, 3:03 AM UTC

Travel Scams: The "friend" buying you drinks

This one is global and you hear about it in variations that exist all around the world. To me, this happened to me in Nicaragua and my mind has been a bit different ever since that day. The sad thing…

81 upvotes 2 replies $2.75
Trip-Hop
@trip-hop Aug 11, 2026, 4:59 AM UTC

Japan is a new hotspot for vacation and I'm not sure exactly how

Japan is a truly wonderful place to visit. I have been there 3 times in the past but I have been kind of ignoring anything that is on the "other" side of the Pacific ocean in recent years due to the…

39 upvotes 2 replies $2.00
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@trip-hop Aug 2, 2026, 9:54 AM UTC

What happened to being able to search for a wide range of dates for flights?

It's been a while since i took part in using a website-based flight booking system and this is because I stopped seeing the benefits of using them. Travel agents still exist and most of them will do…

133 upvotes 4 replies $2.85
Trip-Hop
@trip-hop Jul 28, 2026, 3:17 AM UTC

Stupid travel mistake on my part

I've traveled rather successfully for many years now. I like to think that I know a fair bit more about the travel process despite how ever-changing it is just based on the fact that I have been doin…

68 upvotes 0 replies $1.05
Trip-Hop
@trip-hop Jul 4, 2026, 6:42 AM UTC

Is the fuel crisis real?

I'm a big believer in that most of what we see on the news is a bunch of bullcrap and is there to push some sort of political agenda or to justify the raising of prices on something or other. I don't…

154 upvotes 2 replies $5.22
Trip-Hop
@trip-hop Jun 8, 2026, 8:54 AM UTC

The relative death of backpacking

While backpacking is still a thing for some people I have noticed that there has been a real decline in this wonderful activity in the past 20 years or so. When I first started traveling it seemed as…

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@trip-hop May 10, 2026, 7:00 AM UTC

Backpacking tip: Take the night train or bus instead of flying

This depends heavily on the country that you are in at the time and whether or not they have good road maintenance of course, but for the most part I have found that just taking it easy and getting o…

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Trip-Hop
@trip-hop May 1, 2026, 6:52 AM UTC

Travel tips: leave the jeans in your bag

I've been traveling for a long time. I basically live in a perpetual state of travel these days and I am very happy that someone else gave me this idea and encouraged me to pursue a career of remote…

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