About five years ago, San Francisco Chronicle travel editor John Flinn published a column called " A few things I've learned in a quarter-century-plus of travel ." I enjoyed his insights so much I saved the article as a text file -- and I recently stumbled across it again on my laptop. Here are my...

There has been a recent debate about budget travel against cheap travel: the article draws some interesting comparisons between budgeting your trip, and actually being too much of a cheapo to make the best out of it. As much as I agree with many of the statements presented in the article, I had to stop...

Many Vagablogging readers are familiar with Matt Kepnes, or Nomadic Matt . Kepnes’s website is packed full of information on travel deals, travel tips, travel guides, and loads of interesting travel tales suited to any genre. Now Kepnes has taken the next step and has published his own Ebook. Kepnes’s book is a smooth read....

Those vagabonders funding their travels by working abroad in Korea, or those simply traveling through the country, will be happy to hear of Air Asia's new service to Korea. Korea has rested infuriatingly outside of the budget travel loop for quite some time. However, in November of last year, Air Asia began offering flights from...

Nowadays, it's hard to imagine travel without digital cameras, Facebook, and iPods. The New York Times was lucky to interview one of the original Frugral Travelers, John Wilcock: A budget travel pioneer on a time when $5 a day was real (frugal) money Wilcock has credentials that would make any aspiring writer mad with envy:...

One of my favorite columns is "The Frugal Traveler," written by Matt Gross for the the New York Times . He gives his final swan song in this piece: Three things I've learned about frugal travel It's a great retrospective of his career as a travel writer. While I haven't always agreed with his definition...

Recently here in Vagablogging we talked about train travel in Europe , and the pros and cons of certain money saving options. Every year it seems like it gets harder and harder to travel Europe on the cheap. For those travelers looking for a way around those heavy train ticket prices, you might want to...

In a recent article in Brave New Traveler entitled "When Does Budget Travel Become Exploitation?" , writer Ernesto Machado raises some interesting points about what happens when the "budget" mindset goes too far. In an example he gave, a foreign couple argued with the owner of a hostel, since they wanted to pay $10 less...