Budget & Finances

Scandinavia scares off

I’ve done the math more than once. Across 67 countries and eleven years of hauling a 38-litre backpack, the single

Winter

The best honeymoon I ever crashed cost the couple less than a decent dinner back home. No cheap motel, no

The first road trip I ever planned, I did everything wrong. Booked the car three weeks out at peak-season rates.

Eleven dollars a night in Sarajevo. Nine in Medellín. Six — six! — in Hanoi, breakfast and a jasmine-smelling rooftop

I ran out of money in Medellín in 2017. Not “being careful with my spending” out of money — actually

I landed in Amman with 340 dollars in my pocket and a return ticket I’d bought eight months earlier. Everyone

Sixty-seven countries. That’s how many stamps are in my passport, and it only happened because I stopped waiting for the

The first time I paid “tourist price” for something, I didn’t even know it had happened. Handed over the cash,