A urinal in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma). Photo: Marcus Sortijas Travel writers have it easy. They get to see the world, express their creativity through storytelling, have adventures--and their company pays for it all! How sweet is that? Seth Kugel, the current writer of The New York Times "Frugal Traveler" column, bursts that bubble in his...

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...