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Derek Freal

FriFotos: How To Relax While Traveling

Traveling can be stressful, especially long-term travel. Fortunately there are plenty of ways to relax while traveling, this week’s FriFotos ...
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The Indonesia Tour de Horror: Are You Ready For This?

The haunted locations and dates for the first leg of the Tour de Horror have been finalized. At the beginning ...
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FriFotos: The Technology That Let Me Travel The Ho Chi Minh Trail

This magnificent piece of machinery is what has allowed me to travel the Ho Chi Minh Trail. It is also ...
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How Long-Term Travel Changes People Forever

Last week I celebrated my ten year nomadiversary of quitting my job to travel the world. Ten years of long-term ...
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5 Years Ago Today I Quit My Job To Travel The World

I never thought this day would come. In fact when I first quit my corporate life to start traveling the ...
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FriFotos: Perched On The Zipline Edge

I love zip-lining new and beautiful locations while traveling — the amazing scenery, adrenaline rush, blast of air in the ...
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The Best New Travel Blogs Of March 2014

Presenting my second installment of The Best New Travel Blogs You Haven’t Heard Of Yet. After the phenomenal feedback from ...
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Batanes: A Photographer’s Dream Destination

Ask any Filipino what is on their bucket list and almost every one will mention visiting Batanes. Although tourism is ...
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FriFotos: Street Meat: As Fresh As It Gets

I love everything about street food. The unparalleled taste. The plastic chairs intended for children. The surrounding ambiance of wherever ...
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FriFotos: Perfect Panoramas From All Over The World…But Which Is Perfect For You?

Everyone has a different idea of perfection so I’ve compiled perfect sights and times from around the world for this ...
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Top 20 Exotic, Weird & Delicious Fruit in Asia

New foods and traveling go hand in hand with each other. While meat lovers and vegans will never both agree ...
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FriFotos: Impressive Flames And Unparalleled Fun At Burning Flipside

“What is Burning Flipside?” you ask. Well, it’s the younger sister of Burning Man, the infamous week-long festival celebrating radical ...
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