Chris Blattman

Advice posts on travel

A friend asked this on Twitter, and it got me thinking about our approach. To a lot of people, unless it’s a resort, taking kids

My new favorite site is Autoslash. I made a rental car reservation in Florida at Christmas and Thanksgiving, to visit family. Hertz gave me a

I’ve discovered one of the subtler pleasures in life: sleeping in the same bed for more than 3 nights in a row. I’ve just gotten

I’ve made some updates to my original list. One of these days I’ll get around to a full rewrite. In the meantime, here are some

STEP THREE: Shoes go in first. Ms. Pools packs them along the edges of the bag, then begins putting in jeans and pants to form

As I prepare for summer field work, here’s what I tell my research assistants to bring to Liberia and Uganda: One very nice set of

Warning: cynicism may run high in this post. Can you “do development” in a two week trip? Unless you’re a star surgeon or possess some