People love to tell you they got a cheap flight like it was a stroke of good fortune. As if a magic price appeared and they happened to be looking. After booking a lot of flights over the years, I can tell you the truth: cheap flights are almost never luck. They’re the result of…
Cheap and worth it don’t always go together. Plenty of places are inexpensive precisely because there isn’t much reason to be there. What I’ve been chasing for years is the sweet spot: countries where your money stretches remarkably far and you still come home with a phone full of photos and stories you can’t stop…
For years I believed travel was something other people did. The kind of people who had spare money lying around, or jobs that paid for flights, or parents who footed the bill. I was none of those. So when a friend casually mentioned she was spending three weeks in Southeast Asia on less than what…