Lifejourney4two’s Travel Tips and Inspiration
Here, you’ll find heaps of travel tips, information and advice on how to plan a trip and make your journey easier. Whether that’s a day trip, a vacation or a long-term trip around the world.
We’ve broken these down into categories so you can find the information you’re looking for more easily:
Click any of the links below to jump to the section that interests you or keep browsing.
- Travel Resources We Recommend
- Road Trip Tips
- Motorhome and Campervan Tips
- Photography Tips
- General Travel Tips
- Travel Inspiration
- All the Best Wildlife and Animal Encounters
1. Travel Resources
We recommend and use the following travel resources:
- Travel Insurance: SafetyWing or World Nomads – we’ve used both (World Nomads suits us better now we are of a certain age 🙂
- Book Accommodation: We use Booking.com
- Travel Gear and Accessories: Check out our top picks here — Lifejourney4two page on Amazon
- Car Hire: We recommend DiscoverCars.com
- Motorhome/Campervan Rental: We highly recommend Motorhome Republic
- Activities and Experiences: Get Your Guide and Viator
- Free Accommodation: Get 25% off Trusted House Sitters
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2. Road Trip Travel Tips
Whether you will be on the road for a day, a few weeks, or for much longer, these posts will help you in your planning, and your mindset and suggest the equipment that will make life on the road more fun and stress-free.
We’ve been on the road since 2017, so have a good idea about how to deal with its ups and downs.
3. Motorhome & Campervan Tips
We travelled through Europe in a motorhome full-time for a year and then bought a 4×4 Bush camper for overlanding Africa.
If you are looking for a specific country campervan guide, jump to our Road Tripping Page or jump across to our Destinations page and search by country.
Why not download our Road Trip Planner?
23 pages to help plan and keep all your essential information in one place.
Even better, it’s easy to print at home and INSTANTLY downloadable in three different sizes.
4. Travel Photography Tips & Inspiration
Photography Articles
These travel tips will help you with all types of travel. Whether that’s road trips, long trips or short trips.
- The Travel Photography Gear in our Camera Bags
- 11 Essential Road Trip Photography Tips
- Shooting the Moon with a Sony Camera
- Safari Photography Tips
- Best Landscapes of Ireland in Photos
- Spectacular Icelandic Landscapes
- Birds of Kruger – Photos and Info
- Iconic African Wildlife – Photos and info
- Common Birds of South Africa in Photos
5. General Travel Tips
6. Travel Inspiration
Travel Inspiration Resources
Life on the road comes with ups and downs, excitement, hilarity, mishaps and moments that take your breath away.
Here, you’ll find plenty of articles to inspire your travels.
- Road Trip Quotes to Inspire Your Journeys
- 12 Reasons to Visit Greece
- French Village Life in the Dordogne
- Staying in Klaserie Game Reserve
- Christmas in July Across the World
- Volunteering with monkeys in South Africa
- Smiling Captions and Quotes to Lift Your Spirits
- Instagram Captions for Couple Travel
If you are a wildlife and animal lover, head over to our jam-packed Animal Encounters page here.