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New Home for Travel Gear Reviews
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As some of you readers know, for years I have been reviewing affordable travel gear on the Practical Travel Gear blog. After close to 300 posts on the subject, it’s time for a change. I am finally getting serious and moving it off the ugly Blogger platform and onto its own pretty site with a [...]
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The Round-the-world Travel Budget
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I get a few e-mails each week from readers planning to take off and go travel the world and I’ll occasionally go surf the gap year and round the world branch on the Thorn Tree forum to offer some advice. The top question by far is, “Have I saved enough money?”
The problem is, nobody can [...]
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Sneaky Salmon, Hiding Xanas, and Fighting Cows
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Oh, and a commuter cruise into the Arctic Circle in March.
Put all those things together and you’ve got the May 2009 issue of Perceptive Travel.
Regular contributor Amy Rosen returns, I review a couple books, we’ve got world music, and we welcome three talented writers to our pages for the first time. One of those is [...]
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Travel and the Contrarian Lifestyle
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I’m going to Mexico for two months this summer. For a dozen different reasons, that will make some people gasp, especially those who haven’t been there and those who watch TV half the day and night. The second part will confirm to many that I am a genuine nutcase: my family is going with me.
But [...]
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The Opportunistic Traveler
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In the book Make Your Travel Dollars Worth a Fortune, I stress the substantial financial savings you can get by being a contrarian traveler.
“Have you ever bought a calendar on January 1? Have you ever bought a dozen roses on February 15? Christmas candy on December 26? A bathing suit in September? A leather coat [...]
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Why This Will Be a Great Summer to Travel
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Traveling in the summer can be a real pain in the rear: huge crowds, whining kids, strollers in your way everywhere, jammed “scenic” highways, packed national parks, and on and on. And if you’ve been to Europe in the summer the past few years you know it’s a real zoo in the big draw cities.
This [...]
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My World Hum Interview
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Rolf Potts interviewed me recently for his “Ask Rolf” column in the great travel webzine World Hum. The title dovetails well with my regular proddings to take advantage of what is one of the best years in recent history to go traveling: Given the dire economy, should I travel overseas this year?
If you’re completely broke [...]
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Three Cheers for Opinionated Guidebooks
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Have you ever used a guidebook that was downright blah? One that felt as it it were written by committee, or by an editor who seemed strangely detached from the place he/she was covering?
I get that feeling far too often, actually, and it seems to have become more frequent in the past few years. As [...]
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The Solar-Powered Traveler
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In the comments after my green travel interview post, someone asked, “Have you figured out if there’s any way to travel around the world without ever plugging into a wall socket? With/without a laptop?”
The second part of that question is the tricky part, but the first part is now not all that hard. For a [...]
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Cheap Destination Travel News
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Time for me to take a break from spouting off to highlight some noteworthy bargain destination info.
Goodbye to Saint Death in Mexico. When I was in Mexico City I took this photo of Santa Muerte, who also goes by the name of La Flaca (The Skinny One). It’s an eerie sight to see her floating [...]
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