It’s a Good Time to Travel

A lot of people I talk to about traveling around the world want to know how they can get started. An around-the-world ticket can seem pretty expensive, especially if you don’t have a lot of money in the bank to begin with.

As the New York Times recently pointed out, one of the side effects of this recession is that airfare is cheaper than ever. So if you’ve been thinking of taking a trip abroad, but the initial cost has always made you hesitate, now’s the time to do it.

I saw a one-way ticket from New York to Bangkok for under $800. Once you’ve laid out the money for your flight, you’re there, and the rest is up to you. The deals abound, and not just with airfare but across the board—hotels, restaurants, everything. Why not go to Iceland, where the country’s economic collapse means it’s a great bargain for foreign tourists?¹

The global recession may be nerve-wracking, but there’s really never been a better time to travel. This economic climate isn’t going to last forever, though. We may not have hit bottom yet, but we will, and after that, we’ll start to rebuild, so if you want to travel on the cheap, go now.

 

“How an Average Man” Available for Purchase

My first book, How an Average Man Lived an Adventurous Life, is now available for sale on Amazon.

To give you a taste of what the book’s about, here’s the summary from the dust jacket:

The stories in this book are all true. Its author has been held up at gunpoint at night on a road in Guatemala and shot with a machine gun in the chest and shoulder in Vietnam. He’s come close to dying of thirst in the Sahara and freezing to death in the Himalayas. He’s contracted malaria and typhoid fever in Ethiopia and hepatitis in India. There have been accidents involving motorcycles and automobiles. He’s had close calls involving lions (twice), elephants (three times) and a rhino (once).

He’s visited over a hundred countries, seen revolutions, famines, wars, and panty raids, feasted in palaces and fasted in caves. He’s discovered paradises, been saved by dolphins, hopped freight trains, danced with an 108-year-old woman, swum with sharks, frequented whore houses and opium dens, and met a man capable of revealing God. In the pages of this book you’ll meet the queen of the Ecuadorian prison system, the Dalai Lama, Dick Cheney, a swami from Katmandu who makes his living picking up large stones with his penis, yak herders, tunnel rats, 300 pound go-go girls, deep sea divers, drug dealers, stock car drivers, Indonesian princes, Bolivian miners, beanheads, powder monkeys, hookers and saints.

You can purchase a copy in hardcover or paperback.