Which are the best cheap hotel chains in the USA? According to the most reputable consumer satisfaction survey out there, it would be Drury Hotels, Home2 Suites by Hilton, Tru by Hilton, Microtel by Wyndham, and Woodspring Suites in the five lowest-priced tiers.  It was a close race in some of the categories though, plus …

Are you handicapping your budget when you travel by making rookie travel mistakes? Are you costing yourself lots of money or creating extra hassles on travel days by making newbie errors that are easily avoided? I once published an evergreen tips book called Make Your Travel Dollars Worth a Fortune: The Contrarian Traveler’s Guide to …

If you never seem to have enough money for travel but a billion other people on the planet do, what’s wrong with this picture? Why don’t you have a travel budget that can pay for your vacations? It probably means that something else is a bigger priority. After all, a travel budget is simply a …

I recently got a question from a reader on how to find authentic food from the place she was traveling to and I pointed back to an old article I got quoted in with some good advice. In some places it’s easier than others—last summer I found it super-easy everywhere in Greece and Bulgaria for …

Sales of my living abroad book spiked bigtime this week. Online searches for “moving to Canada,” “moving to Mexico,” and “how to move out of the US” are off the charts. Apparently lots of people are looking to escape and join the expat world. The last time I saw this was after the angry orange …