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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
An Easy Way to Purify Water: Grayl
on: by Tim Leffel
The people who have set me up with a GRAYL water purifier twice probably don’t want me to start off this post with an ugly photo of garbage, so I’ll put that further down. When you look at that pile of
The Ultimate Guide to the Best Water Purifiers for Travelers
on: by Tim Leffel
If you want to be a responsible traveler, the first step is one of the easiest: get a travel water filter. If you are buying bottled water all the time as you travel around the world, you are a walking environmental
Traveling Through Burma, Bohemia, Tasmania, and the Deep South
on: by Tim Leffel
We took a little break on Perceptive Travel last month with new material and instead did a retrospective with five “best travel writing” award winners from the past year and a half. Now we’re back with stories from near and far.
The Travel Gear I Couldn’t Kill
on: by Tim Leffel
Wouldn’t it be nice if you bought a travel gear item for your adventures and no matter how hard you tried, you couldn’t wear it out? Well, that photo above is from a trip to Oaxaca in 2014 and I