What Does it Cost to Travel the World?

My budget travel life requires moving slowly and spending lots of time with locals – my dream come true!

budget travel blog half the clothes author housesat during these New Hampshire fall colors for a few months as part of her world travel adventures made possible by budget travel

Made friends with lots of wonderful locals while house sitting  during infamous fall colors. Budget travel opens lots of doors, and world travel can be yours if you know the right cheap travel secrets!      photo Anthony Quintano

That means most of the people I meet do not travel the world and know nothing about budget travel.  Which also  means 90% of my first-meeting conversations involve a discussion of my finances.  They go much like this:

Get Their Confessions First

You’ve been dying to hear about my 3 a.m., post-skinny dipping, post-wedding-reception, post-after-party shenanigans.

I know.

Here goes:

What Not to Do Before a Wedding

You know that scene in wedding movies where the characters aren’t going to make the ceremony?

So there we were.  In our Sunday best.

The sun relentlessly baked the pavement outside Hotel Sao Sebastiao de Boliqueime.

VIP Bitch?

“Like a bitch!” said Lars, when I asked him how the Dutch say “Cheers!”