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Perhaps this time you want it to be a green vacation?Here are some of the best green vacation ideas we’ve come across…. While RVs may get terrible gas mileage, your vacation will make up for this because you’re not flying nor are you using resources such as electricity at a hotel.

As the most basic introduction to green traveling, we’ve put together this simple post about how to travel green in four easy steps. We believe that you should travel responsibly because it’s good for the environment, it’s good for local economies, and it’s good for you. Check out these posts for more about why you should travel green:

While most of our readers probably aren’t heading back to school this fall, we thought you might enjoy reviewing some green travel basics…. We’ll be covering some intro topics we haven’t yet addressed on Go Green Travel Green — like hiking tours, adventure tours, and simply “How to Travel Green.”

I compared the cheapest travel insurance companies to find the best price between 20+ travel insurance policies. Here are my results.

A guide to choosing the best travel medical insurance policy - including where to buy travel medical insurance, comparing, and which is the best.

A guide to finding, comparing, and buying the best backpackers travel insurance with cheap travel insurance prices.

How to choose travel insurance, the introduction to a short series about buying cheap travel insurance, including travel health insurance.

A review of Hotelly, a new hotel search engine that offers hotel reviews. How does it compare to the competition?

If there’s one thing you can’t leave for your next vacation without — it’s shoes. And given that, when traveling, you probably walk a good deal more than usual, it’s critical to have the best travel shoes.
So, we’ve compiled a list of what to look for in the best travel shoes.

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Travel Sandals
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But, honestly, I couldn’t find a way to justify shelling out $38 for Klean Kanteen’s 40 ounce bottle, when I had two perfectly good 18 and 27 ounce bottles that would do just fine…. However, you won’t get the same cap options that you do with a Klean Kanteen (such as flat top, etc.) And the New Wave Enviro Stainless Steel Water Bottle 40 ounces ships with a stainless steel top, not the plastic top that is worse for the environment and more common with the Klean Kanteen.