Posts from the Cheapest Destinations Blog from Tim Leffel on worthwhile travel books worth reading, from travel narratives to guides to advice books that will save you money on your trips.
This is a terrible year for foreigners to travel to the USA. I can’t advise anyone to do it unless there are family or business reasons. Going the other direction is a different story though. This is a great year to travel abroad for Americans. The strong U.S. dollar has made some “premium” destinations less …
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A few months ago I published a strange combination of ranting about Google’s awful search results lately and unearthing very old (and too short) posts of mine to show a history of the Cheapest Destinations Blog. This old-school post did rather well. The boss of the internet will never rank it, but enough followers cared, …
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Just because you can look up an answer to a burning question in a few seconds for most facts doesn’t mean you can do the same for vacation recommendations. You’re going to need to dig deeper with research if you want to plan a vacation better and have a memorable trip. About 15,000 people a …
Read More about 10 Steps to Plan a Vacation Better (Beyond Using Google)
Since this is the Cheapest Destinations Blog, naturally I talk a lot about the cheapest places to travel, the cheapest places to live in the world, and how to travel well for less money. Cost reduction is just one advantage of moving out of an expensive country and embracing the nomadic lifestyle, but it’s one …
Read More about Nomadic Lifestyle Option 1: Live a Cheaper Life Abroad
“Yes yes, that’s all good advice,” she said, “but my editor really wants to focus on what’s new in budget travel. What are people doing now to save money that they couldn’t have done a year or two ago? New social websites, apps, that sort of thing.” This was from an interview I did …
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