Budget Travel Blog

I love paying attention to travel news, don’t you? Unfortunately, that news has been a little bit depressing ever since the recession started. Sure, there have been a lot of great articles about how to save money on travel and which destinations are cheapest but those are mostly coming from blogs. The real media headlines [...]

If you like this please share it:

One of the options that we have as people who want to travel frugally is to participate in volunteer travel. This refers to the kind of travel where you do volunteer work at the destination in exchange for your room and board. You may do anything from teaching a local family’s children in English to [...]

If you like this please share it:

Guess I’ve gotten off to a slow start with my blog posting for this year. It’s been more than a week since my last post! I’m the type of person who tends to beat myself up a little bit about things like that. However, one of my personal New Year’s goals is to be kinder [...]

If you like this please share it:

I love everything about budget travel. I love the experience of it. I love getting better and better at it as time goes on. And I love learning as much as I can about how to save money on traveling by getting advice from people who are even better at it than I am.
I get [...]

If you like this please share it:

Effect of Recession on Budget Travel
I just watched a really interesting YouTube news clip about the effect that the recession has had on the budget travel industry. Hopefully it’s embedded in this post above so that you can watch it too. I have to confess that I’m still getting used to the logistics of this [...]

If you like this please share it:

I started thinking about taking a trip to San Diego and now I can’t stop thinking about it. San Diego is just such a great destination. It’s good for couples, solo trips and family travel. It’s particularly great because there are a lot of free and cheap things to do in San Diego.
I’m not actually [...]

If you like this please share it:

Okay so immediately after I wrote my first blog post I sent it over to my friend to review. If you read that post then you know that the way that this budget travel blog first got inspired was because I had helped a friend of mine find a great cheap hotel in downtown Chicago [...]

If you like this please share it:

Well here I am trying to figure out what to write for my first post on this new blog. I have so many different thoughts about saving money on travel that I want to dive right in and start to share them on this blog. But I realize that you don’t even know anything about [...]

If you like this please share it: