I love flying, but sometimes it’s cheaper, and even more beautiful, to travel overland. I love taking trains, boats and ferries, and I even like sleeping on buses sometimes, like the time I went from Vienna to Amsterdam a few months ago and had six empty seats...
Google “budget travel tips” and you’ll get plenty of articles to choose from. But the word “budget” is relative. I remember reading Lonely Planet and Budget Travel as a child and realizing that my family was poor because our...