diff --git a/craigslist/base.py b/craigslist/base.py
index a12f928..08a303c 100644
--- a/craigslist/base.py
+++ b/craigslist/base.py
@@ -126,8 +126,7 @@ def set_logger(self, log_level, init=False):
 
     def is_valid_area(self, area):
         base_url = self.url_templates['base']
-        response = utils.requests_get(base_url % {'site': self.site},
-                                      logger=self.logger)
+        response = utils.requests_get(base_url % {'site': self.site})
         soup = utils.bs(response.content)
         sublinks = soup.find('ul', {'class': 'sublinks'})
         return sublinks and sublinks.find('a', text=area) is not None
@@ -143,8 +142,7 @@ def get_results_approx_count(self, soup=None):
         """
 
         if soup is None:
-            response = utils.requests_get(self.url, params=self.filters,
-                                          logger=self.logger)
+            response = utils.requests_get(self.url, params=self.filters)
             self.logger.info('GET %s', response.url)
             self.logger.info('Response code: %s', response.status_code)
             response.raise_for_status()  # Something failed?
@@ -177,8 +175,7 @@ def get_results(self, limit=None, start=0, sort_by=None, geotagged=False,
 
         while True:
             self.filters['s'] = start
-            response = utils.requests_get(self.url, params=self.filters,
-                                          logger=self.logger)
+            response = utils.requests_get(self.url, params=self.filters)
             self.logger.info('GET %s', response.url)
             self.logger.info('Response code: %s', response.status_code)
             response.raise_for_status()  # Something failed?
@@ -364,7 +361,7 @@ def parse_attrs(self, result):
                     break
 
     def fetch_content(self, url):
-        response = utils.requests_get(url, logger=self.logger)
+        response = utils.requests_get(url)
         self.logger.info('GET %s', response.url)
         self.logger.info('Response code: %s', response.status_code)
 
diff --git a/craigslist/utils.py b/craigslist/utils.py
index 18c4f9c..0971de2 100644
--- a/craigslist/utils.py
+++ b/craigslist/utils.py
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@
 USER_AGENT = 'Mozilla/5.0'
 
 
+session = requests.Session()
+retries = requests.adapters.Retry(total=5, backoff_factor=0.1)
+session.mount('http://', requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter(max_retries=retries))
+
+
 def bs(content):
     return BeautifulSoup(content, 'html.parser')
 
@@ -24,20 +29,14 @@ def requests_get(*args, **kwargs):
     a timeout).
     """
 
-    logger = kwargs.pop('logger', None)
     # Set default User-Agent header if not defined.
     kwargs.setdefault('headers', {}).setdefault('User-Agent', USER_AGENT)
 
-    try:
-        return requests.get(*args, **kwargs)
-    except RequestException as exc:
-        if logger:
-            logger.warning('Request failed (%s). Retrying ...', exc)
-        return requests.get(*args, **kwargs)
+    return session.get(*args, **kwargs)
 
 
 def get_all_sites():
-    response = requests.get(ALL_SITES_URL)
+    response = requests_get(ALL_SITES_URL)
     response.raise_for_status()  # Something failed?
     soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')
     sites = set()
@@ -52,7 +51,7 @@ def get_all_sites():
 
 
 def get_all_areas(site):
-    response = requests.get(SITE_URL % site)
+    response = requests_get(SITE_URL % site)
     response.raise_for_status()  # Something failed?
     soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')
     raw = soup.select('ul.sublinks li a')