Other Travel Info & Tips

Whether you travel all-the time or just once a year, there are tools, tips and great number of ways you can enhance your experience and make it much more comfortable in the process. You could travel arround the world efficiently and safely by using our travel tips. Find out more...

For many people, going outdoors is a new experience. They have no agenda, no plans for what to do, and no knowledge of the outdoors. When it comes to the children, they are just as lost as the adults, having never been taught how to survive in the great outdoors. Learn more...

No matter where you like to vacation or what activities you enjoy, the fact remains you have to get there and back. For many, this could mean long hours in a cramped plane, car or train. With this comes the risk of blood clots.

DVT, or deep vein thrombosis, is a blood clot that can develop when sitting for an extended period of time. The condition is serious, potentially fatal and very difficult to diagnose by external examination. Read more...

Contaminated food and water (drinking and recreational) are common sources for the introduction of pathogens into the body. Among the more common infections that travelers can acquire from contaminated food and drink are Escherichia coli infections, shigellosis or bacillary dysentery, giardiasis, cryptosporidiosis, noroviruses, and hepatitis A. Other less common infectious disease risks for travelers include typhoid fever and other salmonelloses, cholera, rotavirus infections, and a variety of protozoan and helminthic parasites (other than those that cause giardiasis and cryptosporidiosis). Many infectious diseases transmitted through food consumption and drinking water can also be acquired directly through the fecal-oral route. Accidental consumption of recreational water from lakes, rivers, oceans, and inadequately treated swimming pools can spread these same diarrheal diseases as well as ear, eye, skin, respiratory, and neurologic infections. Learn more...<