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:...

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...