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Articles on Free Travel
How to
Travel for Free by Leading or Promoting Tours
Whether you're 16 or
60, you CAN travel just about anywhere in the world
for free -- and even with a nice stash of cash in
your pocket -- by telling like-minded people about a
trip and convincing them to go with you. Get 5
to 20 to book the same trip, and your trip is free.
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Quotes and Anecdotes wanted:
Cheap Stingy
Bastards
How to Make the Most of a Thin Wallet While
Traveling the World
"Are you someone
who will do just about anything to get something
free? Are you embarrassed to travel with your
dad because he won't accept the first three
rooms that a hotel offers? What do you do when
there's a small curly hair in your salad? If you
get your lunch from pilfering room service
remains, step right up. This will be an advice
book for how, where, and when you can travel on
the cheap--how to turn every last dollar, euro,
peso, ruble, rupee, shekel and baht into more
days on the road. Each chapter will be peppered
with the first hand quotes from tightwads with a
story to tell and wisdom to impart."
"I'm collecting
small quotes and anecdotes (from 75 to 250
words) about the obnoxious, strange, and
creative things you've done while trying to
stretch your travel budget. They don't have to
be successful--stories of abject failure can be
instructive too. General themes will include
shelter, transportation, food, traveling with
other cheapskates, finding ridiculously cheap
gifts that make you look generous, travel gear,
what to wear, romance for tightwads on the road.
But don't let that limit you. While I will be
writing practical advice, I want the zaniest
stuff to come from you."
"In the spirit of
thrift, the authors of any quotes that get used
in the book will receive no money whatsoever but
WILL get, besides being published, a free copy
of Cheap Stingy Bastards AND 50% off all
Travelers' Tales titles for life. The first 25
submissions will also receive a free copy of the
Penny Pincher's Passport to Luxury Travel by
Joel L. Widzer.To turn in your submission,
please email your name, address, and phone
number to
jen at jenleo dot com"
"Deadline is
December 15, 2004 unless I let you know about an
extension." |
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Organized by country and topic: sharing, bargains,
companions, etc. Overseasjobs.com
Posts organized by country. Interesting reading!
"Postcards"...
travel recommendations shared by visitors to Lonely
Planet. Plus armchair traveling (the
cheapest kind of travel of all!) through great
stories and photographs. Rick
Steves "Travel Partners Wanted"
Fielding's
Black Flag Adventure Forum. "The nets
only hangout for hardcore adventurers, travel
junkies, DP'ers and just about anyone who runs
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tries to help you to keep track where your friends
are, even when they are not at home, so you can meet
your friends more often and keep in touch. Check out
the Forums at
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Budget
Travel for
College Students
Eurail
SelectPass Youth For those under age 26
on their first day of travel, there is a special
discounted Eurail Selectpass Youth offering
unlimited travel on the national rail networks of
any 3 adjoining Eurail countries that are connected
by train or ship.
Eurail Selectpass (3 countries), as low as $243 
International
Student Travel Confederation "Your
connection to a world-wide network of student travel
organizations in 95 countries specializing in
student, youth and budget travel
Backpacking
and Hostelling Your Way Around The World
Backpackers
Hostels Canada
Backpacker
Essentials Magazine is full of low cost
adventures.
ARTOFTRAVEL.COM
How
to See the World: The Art of
European and World Travel Backpacking on $25 a Day
or Less
Tips
on Starting a Hostel
Hostels
International
Youth Hostel aka
Hosteling International.
"A
Youth Hostel is a place that offers a good night's
sleep in friendly surroundings at an affordable
price... a perfect way to get to know a country at
low cost, while, at the same time, meet many other
people with a similar attitude towards traveling and
experience this warm and welcoming atmosphere."
Hosteling
International: American Youth Hostels
Hostels
Guide with Bootsnall
Cheap Hotels
Cheap Hotel
Links
Travel
FREE
If you
can corral 8 or 10 friends into taking the same
trip, you can travel for FREE says Globe
Tours. With 20 people, you can have a Western
Canadian Adventure.
 Cruise411.com
offers unsurpassed pricing and service on all
of the ships... and all of the cabins... of the major cruise lines. Click Here!
Get a group together... and travel for FREE
(in most cases every 16th passenger is
free).
Travel
Your Way Healthy... and Do It for Free!
HealthyTravel.net
Travel your way to health via spas,
retreats and other healing and energizing places on
the planet. Form
your own group and learn how to earn free
trips in addition to extra cash by becoming a tour
leader/organizer/
Organize
a group of classmates for a Spring Break trip... and
travel free!
Epicurrean.com
SpringBreakTravel.com
endlesssummertours.com
Take
the Best Fares Challenge
Do you
know about a HOT deal that can save other travelers
money? If you do, you could qualify to earn a FREE
copy of Tom's Parson's book, Insider Travel
Secrets. Subscribers to Best Fares can opt for
a three month extension to their current
subscription to Bestfares.com
Magazine.
Tales
of Cheap Travels
It
Will Be So Awful It Will Be Wonderful
"These stories chronicle a remarkable journey
across Africa and Central Asia; a 9 1/2 month
camping and budget backpacking adventure by two
people who braved the unpredictable through England,
France, Spain, Morocco, Mauritania, Mali, Ivory
Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon,
Central African Republic, Zaire, Uganda, Tanzania,
Kenya, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan,
China, and India...."
Free
Trip Aids
Desktop
World Clock... a free shareware download
from TheTrip.com keeps track of time around the
world.
Make
$$$ writing about travel
Marco
Polo Magazine seeking permanent travel
writers. Travelwriters.com
offers some superb tips
for submitting travel articles... as well as
offering travel writers free
webpages. Frugal
travel tips from
frugalfun.com is also seeking travel writers. No
pay... lots of fun and glory.
Low
Cost
International Travel
International
Servas Would you like to visit foreign
countries and take part in every day life? Would you
like people from other countries to join in your
daily life for a short time?
See also U.S.
Servas STA
Travel is the world's largest travel
organization specializing in low-cost travel for
students. Backpackeressentials.com
always has links to interesting youth hostels around
the world. Budget
Accommodations in Australia.
Shoestring
Travel Tips
Intopia.com
For quick access to dozens of LOW COST travel
suggestions CLICK
HERE.
The Budget Traveler's Guide to Sleeping in Airports
rates airports around the world for their comfort
level is just one of the many cheap travel tricks
you'll learn as a member of Donna McSherry's Cheap
Like Me Travel Society. Personal Posts on
cheap accommodations around the world in the Shoestring
traveler user pages.
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