Travel decisions have a way of sticking with you and haunting you with regrets long after the other bad memories have faded. The year was 1998 and it was our fourth or fifth time landing in Bangkok. We were losing count, but we had been there enough times that we knew how to get around …

What can you get for a dollar in Mexico? Or less than that? Quite a lot it turns out.  In looking through some old posts of mine that are getting out-of-date, I found one from 2009 on what you could get for a dollar or less in Mexico City—in pesos. I had been on a …

Are you a person who likes to listen to books because you’re on the move a lot? Now you can pick up the revised second edition of A Better Life for Half the Price in audiobook form on Audible.com or through Amazon. You can get 14 hours of overseas moving tips through your earbuds or …

The latest issue of Perceptive Travel is out now, with one story from me about what I was doing in the last February before the lockdowns: skiing in Idaho. This is a narrative on my time exploring eight different ski resorts in the southern half of the state, all within a few hours of either …

Want to know where you can live large in a capital city, getting a thriving urban life without the skyscraper-high prices? Some of the cheapest big cities to live in around the world are capitals with plenty of culture, great food, and nightlife.  Yeah I know, during the pandemic times there was a population move …