What do you buy someone that is always traveling and has no fixed address? When your life consists of one big backpack, what holiday gift is lightweight and compact enough to accommodate? With our Offbeat Guides team comprising of a mix of international travelers on the go, we thought we would share our secrets to give the perfect gift to your global nomad.
Personalized Travel Guide
This holiday season, inspire a traveler, or arm them with knowledge prior to their trip with an Offbeat Guide. Offbeat Guides creates personalized, up-to-date travel guides that cover over 30,000 travel destinations worldwide. You can delete chapters that aren’t of interest to you and add chapters with content tailored specifically to your trip. Your guide comes with local maps, festivals and events going on while you’re there, exchange rates, key phrases in the city’s language, weather forecasts and more. You’ll receive your professionally, perfect-bound travel guide, or PDF, a few days before your trip, ensuring you have the most up-to-date information available. The glossy front cover will feature the travelers name, destination of their trip, and travel dates. It’s the perfect memento of a trip and great way to give something unique and customizable. Additionally, gift yourself some extra income this season and join the Offbeat Guides Affiliate Program. As an Offbeat Guides affiliate, you are able to quickly and easily generate revenue through Offbeat Guides sales by referring traffic from your website. Offbeat Guides provide you with everything you need to sell our guides on your platform, and we do the rest. You get paid every time someone buys an Offbeat Guide from your website, and you get to offer a unique, personalized product to your site’s visitors.
Ipod Accessories
For the road tripper, music is an essential part of the trip and creates the soundtrack for your memories. However on a long road trip and for the frugal traveler, the car is presumably not fitted with coffee cup holders, a new cd player and great bass quality, but rather a cassette tape deck or the very least, a FM transmission dial. To enable your travel mate to listen to their Ipod in a car with only a cassette deck, buy them a Travel Kit by Logic 3. For less then $30, this kit includes a charger, cassette adapter, and several retractable cables.
Digital Luggage Scales
With airlines charging ridiculous amount of money for checked bags and for bags that are over a certain weight, it is good to know in advance how much is too much. Don’t be alarmed at the counter by the fees, and instead buy a digital luggage scale from TravelSmith. It’s the easiest way to avoid baggage fees and is lightweight and compact to carry.
Is the Water Safe?
The eternal question coming out of traveler’s mouths is “Is it safe to drink the water?” Don’t wait for the answer, or to get sick, and give the gift of purified water for the traveler on the go. The Katadyn Exstream XR Purifier Bottle ($50) features a built-in, EPA-registered unit that removes all organisms, including viruses. The 34-ounce bottle (28-ounce capacity with cartridge) can be refilled more than 100 times before the cartridge needs to be replaced.
Originally published on Offbeat Guides
