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The less often people travel, the more they tend to overspend when they finally get away. The vacation spending mindset is influenced by a lot of external factors, including marketing from some deep-pocketed international hotel chains. Step back and think like a contrarian traveler though and it doesn’t have to be that way. “Yes,…
One of the themes of this blog and a whole book I published once is that the best way to make your travel dollars worth a fortune is to be a contrarian traveler. When the sheep are all headed to one place, take the other path to an alternate spot with smaller crowds. While…
What should you put into your travel bag if there’s a need for packing light? After hundreds of trips, including living out of a backpack for three years, I know a thing or two about how to pack well. Back in the early days of blogging in the ’00s, I did a guest post…
Mexico has more ancient pyramids than a cantina has empty bottles of Victoria, but with tens of millions of foreign tourists adding to the throngs of domestic visitors each year, some of these structures can’t support the crowds. So the pyramids you can climb in Mexico aren’t so well-known or popular, with the famous…
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…
I do a recurring article series on my favorite travel gear and travel clothing brands, with a few new updates each year, and lately I’ve been trying to mix up the apparel that goes in my suitcase a bit. This month I traveled for weeks with three new items from Toad and Co, (also…
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