World's Best Places to Visit

Reading Time: 7 minutes @StephBeTravel (hi, that’s me) at the Casa Marina, Key West for Fantasy Fest Hello Fantasy Fest! A ten day festival celebrating ghouls, freaks, and sci-fi loving geeks, this year’s theme, All Hallows InterGalactic Freak Show, welcomed 60,000 free people. Free in mind, body, and spirit, revelers of all ages, sizes, and interests took on body paint, parades, live music, and ghostly parties. The 2015 theme is “All Hallows Intergalactic Freak Show.” Fantasy Fest, Key West (Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau/HO) #FantasyFestFlorida: spend Halloween with a clan of ghosts, ghouls, and lovers all things absurd. Click To Tweet Alas, the 13 Fantasy Fest phases: Preparing your costumes. Thou does not simply wear a cocktail dress and animal ears to Fantasy Fest. People spend months planning their costumes for the Mardi Gras style parades, strutting solo or rolling out in groups of up to thirty. In addition to the overall annual festival t...

Reading Time: 5 minutes Sometimes we just need to get organized. I spent the last few weeks in hiding. After traveling solo and full-time for nine months, taking seven flights per week a couple times in a row, all I really needed was to rest…and get organized. I went home to mom and dad’s: my refuge, my paradise. Amongst my travel checklist was equipping myself appropriately. I live out of my carry-ons – a 20″ rolling suitcase, and a “personal item.” I don’t have an apartment, and with the amount of flights I take, the last thing I want to do is check a bag. My carry-on choice is a pretty big deal. As a travel story-teller, the right bag conveniently came to me.   I had already tried SIX, and none were working for me. I’d like to introduce you to the bag that saved my sanity, as sponsored by Lo & Sons. Work? Really? Pictured in the Florida Keys Photographed by Mathew Karsten, Expert Vagabond In review, three reasons I love  Lo & Sons: 1. It’...

Reading Time: 3 minutes As a solo female traveler, I am always asked about safe travel. It’s a conversation we don’t address enough. It was an honor to be approached by CNN to discuss how we can use technology to travel more responsibly. Some of the apps I discussed are SOS Emergency, Medical ID: Emergency, Trip Lingo, and TripIt. Check out the video on the CNN website to learn more. Pssss… If you follow me on Snapchat, you may have caught the behind the scenes of my next CNN feature. Snapchat: TravelBreak — Send me a snap to tell me what you think of the feature!   TravelBreak Posts You Might Like: 5 Mobile Apps for Safe Travel #StopMuploads — Stop Posting Live Updates and Checking in on Social Media 21 Tips for Safe Travel   Join Thousands of Travelers. #TravelBreak to be featured Follow Stephanie Be! @StephBeTravel @StephBeTravel StephanieBe TravelBreak.net