Cheap travel advice

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 that …

If you hear a lot of talk and read a lot of articles about slow travel, you might think at first that it’s kind of a woo-woo thing, some new-age trend. As a cheapskate and a person who likes to avoid travel hiccups, however, I can tell you from experience that slow travel is also …

There are times when going down the travel search rabbit hole can really pay off. Sometimes you have to set aside some time, then think creatively to find the cheapest flights to anywhere.  I’m currently in Mazatlan, Mexico, which I flew to from Queretaro. I don’t live in Queretaro, two hours away in fact. But …

  “Yes yes, that’s all good advice,” she said, “but my editor really wants to focus on what’s new in budget travel. What are people doing now to save money that they couldn’t have done a year or two ago? New social websites, apps, that sort of thing.” This was from an interview I did …

Take it from someone who made Mexico his adopted home after vacationing in the country since 2003: you can definitely travel Mexico on the cheap if you know the right steps. Mexico only got upgraded to a full chapter of the fifth edition of The World’s Cheapest Destinations because when the peso is not near …