1218 articles tagged with budget travel
There's a particular irony in retiring from refugee resettlement work only to find myself constantly displaced by choice. Yet here I am, standing at the edge of English Bay as the summer sun dips behind Vancouver's North Shore mountains, reflecting...
When most visitors think of Houston, they picture space centers and sprawling highways, not a secret subterranean world flowing beneath the city's towering skyscrapers. But as someone who's spent years examining the mechanical precision of natural formations, I found myself...
There's something poetic about second acts—both in theater and in life. At 58, trading my corporate marketing desk in Charlotte for a theater intern's notepad in Bakersfield wasn't enough of a plot twist. I needed to see how drama unfolds...
The rhythm of my running shoes hitting Toronto's pavement couldn't be further from the crisp Siberian air that filled my lungs last summer in Irkutsk. There's something about cities with deep imperial histories that makes my marathon-trained legs itch to...
I'll be honest—when my company first sent me to Copenhagen for a Scandinavian design sourcing trip, I was low-key stressing about traveling solo in a city known for its couple-friendly vibes and sky-high prices. Fast forward one week, and I'm...
Like finding an unexpected cove after sailing past popular harbors, Tartu appeared on my radar during a Baltic exploration last summer. Estonia's second-largest city sits just 186 kilometers southeast of Tallinn, yet remains delightfully overlooked by the cruise ship crowds....
Mumbai has always held a special place in my heart. While it's often the glitzy Bollywood productions that capture international imagination, the true soul of this megalopolis reveals itself through experiences that rarely make it to the silver screen. As...
The transformation of abandoned buildings into thriving cultural spaces is, in many ways, a perfect demonstration of energy conservation—nothing truly disappears, it merely changes form. Budapest's ruin bars exemplify this principle brilliantly. These venues, born from the shells of crumbling...
When I told my fellow preservation students I was spending two weeks in Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela, their reactions ranged from concerned to outright alarmed. *You're going where? During winter break? Are you insane?* Fair questions, I suppose. Venezuela doesn't exactly...
The morning light filters through the jacaranda trees, casting purple-dappled shadows across Guadalajara's streets as I adjust my ##AFFILIATE##travel sketchbook|Moleskine Art Collection Sketchbook##/AFFILIATE## on my lap. There's something about this city that speaks to both sides of my heritage—the familiar...
The first time I heard about Abéché, it wasn't from a glossy travel magazine or a viral Instagram post. It was from an elderly Chadian man I met at a craft beer festival in Portland who noticed my interest in...
¡Hola, travel friends! Sophia here, fresh from my weekend adventure in what I'm calling Europe's most underrated city. While Prague gets all the tourist love (and tourist prices), I found myself completely enchanted by Brno – Czech Republic's second-largest city...
The 180-kilometer journey from Faisalabad to Lahore feels like traveling through layers of time, where Pakistan's industrial present meets its cultural soul. Having spent three weeks documenting traditional herbalists in Punjab's textile city before making my way to the provincial...
Standing at the edge of Lahore's bustling Anarkali Bazaar, I found myself caught in what I can only describe as a choreographed chaos—a theatrical production where every vehicle, from ornately decorated rickshaws to sleek Careem cars, played its designated role...
When most people conjure images of Oxford, they envision ancient college quads, scholarly debates, and punting along manicured riverbanks. But after fifteen years of global wandering—from the sun-drenched shores of the Mediterranean to New Zealand's wild coastlines—I've developed a knack...
