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Keeping this post updated is difficult since Argentina’s financial crisis is a dramatic one that’s still continuing, but I’m taking a stab at it in January of 2024, supplementing some old info with updates on the currency exchange story. I first posted when I had just returned from a trip to the bottom of…
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…
Ask anyone who has planned for a year of travel how it went and they’ll be able to share plenty of mistakes they made when preparing for long-term travel. There are a lot of moving parts that go into a round-the-world trip or extended nomad jaunt, so investing a bit of time up front…
I have yet to make it to Poland—the closest I’ve been is seeing it from the other side of the river in Slovakia. So this article on the cost of living in Poland is a guest post from Polish native Agness Walewinder of eTramping.com. Take it away Agness! Moving to a foreign country for…
Here’s some advice you don’t hear very often in the travel world: when you fly into the country, bring as much cash as you can, preferably in $100 bills or €100 notes. That’s because we’re talking about the strategy to visit Argentina, where your money is worth more in cash than if you use…
Sometimes the best advice can be distilled down to a one-word answer. My most common answer to how people can travel more for less money is one of those. Independent travel success and keeping the travel budget in check primarily rely on one key trait: “flexibility.” This was true for me this week—more on…
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I’m the author of The World’s Cheapest Destinations, Travel Writing 2.0, and the living abroad book A Better Life for Half the Price. All have been published in multiple editions. I am nomadic part of each year with a home base in Mexico.
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