budget-travel

Have you ever been looking at the various options for airline tickets and seen there is sometimes this other option with a huge price inc...

I think there are two kinds of travelers in the world for the most part. There are people that are overly nervous about everything and ...

This might sound like kind of a jerk post, but as someone who has traveled extensively for over 2 decades I can say that sometimes it is ...

I have never really gotten involved with various lounge access oriented credit or debit cards in the past but recently one was offered to...

This is a fear that people really should take very seriously. In my last article I told you about how my friend was a bit shell-shocked...

A lot of people are very concerned about bedbugs when they travel and a lot of this is something that you actually should be very concern...

Now here is something that is out of my wheelhouse for sure seeing as how I focus almost entirely on very affordable destinations that ba...

I've been traveling on the cheap for over 20 years. This is an "OK boomer!" moment but honestly, the budget travel destination...

...and it actually can be a great thing but there are certain things you have to look out for. Some islands claim that they didn't allow...

When I first started traveling I feel like backpacking was a lot more genuine than it is now. You got your pack, your ticket, and then y...

Taxi apps are an absolutely wonderful part of the travel environment and makes travel around or even between cities much easier than it w...

This story is one that eventually got resolved and I know a lot about it because it happened to someone I know extremely well because he'...

Lounges in airports are fantastic. It completely changes the way you look at travel. I think that most people absolutely loathe being ...

When I first started backpacking over 2 decades ago I remember reading a physical book about this because we didn't use the internet for ...

While I myself do not have a pet because of my transient lifestyle. I do know a couple of people that go all over the place with their do...

When I first started traveling decades ago at the advisement of a friend who was an avid backpacker, I was, like many people, rather conc...

Recently, I was faced with finally replacing my luggage. I've been traveling and living primarily outside of my home country and well, I...

This story didn't happen to me, so some of the details are going to be a bit dodgy but the person that it did happen to is someone that I...

This isn't going to apply to people that have traditional careers and only get a couple of weeks off per year. Those folks are kind of f...

If you are traveling on the cheap like I have been doing for the past 25 years or so, you are probably going to be subjected to some pret...

Business class is well out of the reach for most people including me. I always kind of look at the various price differences and think t...

I have seen this in the time that I have been backpacking for many years time and time again. I will admit that I am guilty of it myself...

This has almost always been the case in the United States and that in my mind is a damn shame. The USA has one of the most extensive rai...

I have been traveling for many years and I have never so much as had a recognizable brand name bag of any sort. My first travel backpac...

I recently wrote a story about how most online booking sites are not a good idea and I feel as though it is a better idea to book with an...

Remember a long time ago when low-cost carriers first started becoming a thing and everything was fine until the competition got so fierc...

There was a time a while ago when booking with and agent was the normal thing to do when booking a flight. I was too young to really be ...

This story didn't happen to me but rather to someone that I met along the way. I initially started talking to them because she was absol...

I have heard it among a lot of people that managed to not be a part of the investment world in a way where this apparent global downfall ...

I feel bad for anyone out there that genuine, medically, needs this sort of thing but over the years since it was introduced I have seen ...