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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 …

I’ve been a travel writer since the early 1990s, back when I took off on my first year-long trip around the world, the start of many epic journeys to come. So from low-tech times to now, I’ve had plenty of chances to learn how to find good places to eat when away from home.  The …

When it comes to the carry-on vs. checked bag debate, I seem to be one of the rare frequent travelers who says, “It depends.” There are some who see the decision whether to wheel a carry-on bag onto a plane or check a bag instead as a black or white, binary decision with no middle …

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 …

There are some major, history-making kinds of changes going on in the USA that could easily spell the decline of an empire, a major loss of human rights, and the effective end to real democracy. Yet what most Americans seem to be complaining about most are high gas prices. With their assumption that cheap fossil …