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The Resourceful Traveler

Budget Travel With a Difference

The Resourceful Traveler column by Tim Leffel is a regular rundown on how to avoid the tourist hordes and find a richer (and less expensive) travel experience. It points readers to the best strategies and resources for scoring a deal while making every trip an adventure.

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The Resourceful Travel Column and Other Articles by Tim Leffel
Budget Travel in South America 
Biking in Eastern Europe 
Eco-Friendly Travel: Simple Strategies that Result in Cost Savings for You and the Planet 
Work Abroad as a Travel Writer
A Needle in a Haystack: Finding Travel Websites That Are Worth the Search
Prelude to Immersion: Learning a Foreign Language at Home and On the Go
Make Your Fantasy Job a Reality: How to Find and Create Full-Time Work Abroad 
Guidebook Smackdown 
Budget Travel in Mexico and Central America 
Budget Travel in Asia 
The New Eastern Europe: Now You Have to Look for Travel Bargains 
Reservations About Reservations: Advanced Planning is Not Always a Good Idea
The Coca Plant Paradox: A Simple Little Leaf With a Complicated History in South America
Hosting Programs Offer a Break from the Tourist Trail
Around the World Travel: Fly to the Cluster and Save
Saving Machu Picchu
The Benefits of Becoming a Local to Work Abroad
Travel Abroad in 2005
Traveling with a Child in Mexico
Why Giving Matters
Rethinking Round-the-World Travel
Know Your Seasons for the Best Travel Bargains
Go Learn Something
Budget Adventure Travel
Eat Where the Locals Eat
Low-Budget Latin America
Homestay Programs
Coping with a Weak Dollar
Travel With Soul
Around the World Travel: Keep Going
Save Money in Pariah Destinations
Teaching English in Asia
The Seven Myths of Being a Travel Writer
Review of Best Travel Writing 2005
Review of A Sense of Place
Top Ten Travel Books

Tim Leffel's Web Sites
Contrarian Traveler
Tim Leffel has just published an innovative book and accompanying Web site, The Contrarian Traveler: Make Your Travel Dollars Worth a Fortune, which contains yet more useful travel resources covering all forms of budget travel.
World's Cheapest Destinations
Tim Leffel's excellent book on budget travel: The World's Cheapest Destinations: 21 Countries Where Your Dollars are Worth a Fortune is supplemented on his Web site by many budget travel resources and some of his favorite budget travel articles.
Traveler's Tool Kit
Rob Sangster and Tim Leffel have combined to write a book on practical planning guide for meaningful budget travel in Mexico and Central America. Traveler’s Tool Kit: Mexico and Central America focusses on Mexico and Central America due to their conviction that these regions are “today’s smart destinations.”
Tim Leffel's Cheapest Destinations Blog
Tim Leffel's Cheapest Destinations blog consists in an award-winning series of posts which serve as excellent practical articles on budget travel in and of themselves. No one is more tapped into important and eclectic issues on the subject of budget travel at home and worldwide.
Perceptive Travel by Tim Leffel
Tim publishes a web magazine called Perceptive Travel (www.perceptivetravel.com), written for independent travelers with open senses and open minds, and featuring narrative writing from fine contemporary writers along with world music reviews..
Tim Leffel's Portfolio Site Tim Leffel's portfolio site summarizes his work as a writer, author, and travel expert.
Latin America Travel Survey


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