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Why I Like Living Abroad
on: by Tim Leffel
Over the past 25 years, I’ve had the great experience of living abroad in three different countries. The people, the food, the sounds, and the smells changed a lot. The questions from the people I knew back home did not. So…why
Why Travel Around the World? 5 Reasons to Spend a Year or More on the Road
on: by Tim Leffel
Back in 2003, the first year this blog existed, I wrote a lengthy (for the blogging standards of the time) called “Why Travel Around the World?” Back then it was kind of a radical question. This was long before the
Eat Local, Drink Local, Buy Local When You Travel on a Budget
on: by Tim Leffel
The “locavore” and “slow food” movements have taken off bigtime in the last decade, but budget travelers have been following them for ages for economic reasons. If you eat local and drink what’s made in the region, it’s much easier to
The Power of Nature and What Comes From a Quest
on: by Tim Leffel
After taking a break from new material last month in Perceptive Travel and doing a Dark Tourism issue, we’re back to our usual monthly online magazine schedule. This time we have four new narrative travel stories from wandering book authors and
How to Travel Cheap in South America
on: by Tim Leffel
Do you want to travel on the cheap in South America? Well I’ve got a few time-tested ideas on that subject. A few years back I wrote an article for Transitions Abroad simply called “Budget Travel in South America”. Most of