Dispatches from the Road

24 Jun 2013

Dispatches From The Road: One Cold Night In Canberra, Australia’s Capital

It’s easy to give into your own prejudice and hate Canberra. As soon as you step into this place, the blood in your veins turns to ice. Winters here are chilly, and if you fly in, chances are you will be left waiting outside in the cold night for a

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14 Jun 2013

Libraries, Galleries, and Hostels: The Broke-Ass Traveler’s Sanctuaries in Italy

Photo by Leigh Cuen Italy is not a cheap place to travel. Expensive culinary delights call out to pedestrians like sirens. Italy’s famous museums are costly and offer the crowded feeling of Disneyland or a zoo. Visitors are herded past masterpieces in lines, which often snake around corners and out

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07 May 2013

Dispatches from the Road: Five Awesome Free or Cheap Things in San Diego

While I haven’t lived in San Diego since 1999, I grew up there and go back to visit three to five times a year. My family still lives there, as do a ton of friends, so even though I’m not dialed in like I am in New York or San

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02 Apr 2013

Dispatches from the Road: Why Melbourne Australia is a Broke-Ass Paradise

Guest post by Royce Kurmelovs.  If Adelaide is a little like LA without Hollywood and gang culture, Melbourne is a lot like San Francisco for its history, progressive politics and housing struggles. But that’s getting a little ahead. If you’re reading this, you’re probably broke and traveling to Melbourne. You’ll be either be

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17 Jan 2013

Dispatches from the Road: An Insider’s Guide to Doing Adelaide, Australia on the Cheap

The rest of Australia can’t understand Adelaide.

We’re just too weird.

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