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Slow and steady wins the race, but sometimes it’s the hare that gets the best travel deals. The great productivity website Lifehacker had this article on the virtues of being late: How to plan an awesome, last-minute vacation on the cheap.
The article covers everything from choosing the destination to booking a flight to finding a place to stay. Flights are often the … Read more »
“I came to realize that I traveled best when I traveled no faster than a dog could trot.” –Gardner McKay, Journey Without a Map (2009)
“The whole point of traveling is to arrive alone, like a specter, in a strange country at nightfall, not in the brightly lit capital but by the back door, in the wooded countryside, hundreds of miles from the metropolis, where, typically, people don’t see many strangers and were hospitable and do not instantly think of you as money on two legs. Arriving in the hinterland with only the vaguest plans is a liberating event. It … Read more »
Hostels are a mainstay of the budget travel circuit. Share a dorm room with strangers, shave off a big percentage of your accommodation costs. They do come with some drawbacks however, as this article from The Sydney Morning Herald describes: The problem with staying in hostels.
Although for me, the “problem” the author writes about is my favorite benefit of staying in … Read more »
“The Caribbean holiday is a mass-marketed product as well as a place. Like a tin of fruit cocktail, the promise of a holiday experience has been manufactured out of the material and ideological resources available to contemporary culture. The “destination,” as they say in the business, is an integral part of the identity of the Caribbean holiday product at the same time as it’s strangely irrelevant: basically everything with sun and palm trees will do.” … Read more »
Dave and Emily Carlson
Age: 28
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
Quote: “ It’s exciting to buy stuff when you’re in the planning phase. It makes you feel like you’re already in the process. But resist the urge – you need much less than you think.”
“A good travel writer can give you the warp and weft of everyday life, the generalities of people’s existence that are rarely reflected in journalism, and hardly touched on by any other discipline. Despite the internet and the revolution in communications, there is still no substitute.” –Colin Thubron, quoted in “Home truths on abroad“, The Guardian, September 19, 2009
Where are you at in your life? Are you working in a career that you know is clearly not for you? Have you spent your days since college in a cubicle working in a job you feel no passion for? Or maybe you actually love your job but the long hours and little vacation time is burning you out? Have you dreamed of leaving it all behind for a while to travel and experience the … Read more »
It’s the dream of many backpackers: to express our creativity through stories and photos on our travel blogs, and make enough money to keep traveling. Nomadic Matt is one of the more notable examples of people who have achieved this goal. In a recent post, he reveals the details: How I make money and afford to travel.
Throughout the piece, Matt addresses head-on how a … Read more »
“Traveling makes one modest — you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” –Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert in Egypt