Family travel

What is it going to cost you to visit the great wonders of the world? How much will it bust your budget to check that famous attraction off your list? Sometimes not much, sometimes days’ worth of travel costs. When you travel around the world on a budget, those backpacker travel estimates of $50 a …

When I was a young budget traveler backpacking around the world, I spent a lot of time sleeping on night trains and overnight buses. The rail sleepers were often a real pleasure, the night buses not so much, but in both cases they combined lodging and transportation in one, which saved a fair bit of …

Are you using your freedom to travel, or are you pinned down by chains of your own making? Have you become a creature of habit, a man of routine, a predictable woman? Do all those travel dreams of yours keep getting pushed further and further back? What if you set a deadline for travels, like …

First you walk through a church with no roof, gnarly roots twisting across the floor. Then you pass a building with rusty metal mining equipment attached to the stone block wall. Up a set of steps to nowhere and you have a panoramic view of the other ruins. Ghost towns in Mexico like Mineral de …

While the USA is not known for having a great public transportation system, it did in the pre-automobile age, when the trains stopped almost everywhere. Thankfully much of that system survived in the parts of the country that have been populated the longest, so you can still travel the USA’s east coast by train, especially …