Bad moves

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 …

This year I missed a Caribbean storm by a few weeks, was in the direct line of a hurricane in Puerto Vallarta, and was a few hours south of a Category 5 hurricane that plowed into Acapulco. Prices were great where I was traveling but for a good reason: they call it the Off Season …

If you have respiratory problems or don’t want to foul your lungs too much when you travel, you may want to avoid India, the Middle East, and China. They are home to the most polluted cities in the world. This will probably not surprise anyone who has been to the countries listed below, but the …