The traveler’s gum on the shoe sole of luxury

Travel’s not always a luxurious endeavor. It doesn’t always look like the inside of a Conde Nast magazine. Sometimes you’re not really sure whether or not the bed you’re sleeping in has bugs in it. Most of the time you don’t want to know, and you certainly don’t want to think about any other possibilities of what might have happened onĀ it.

The point is, sometimes it’s necessary to travel cheap. Sometimes you have to cut costs to see the important sights you want to see that matter more than whether or not you have a toilet that flushes (read: camping).

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