Budget Travel Adventures

The Budget Travel Guides are travel tips to help you save money and enrich your travel experiences.  BBQ, the capital city of Texas, music, college town, and nightlife – everything is bigger and better in Texas!  In this Austin Travel Guide, Darcie Connell shares her travel tips for the capital city. Been looking for an Austin...

Recently, I’ve become fascinated with travel photography.  While I may never be a professional photographer, I do want to learn to take better travel photos.  Sure, I am an expert at how to make travel videos as evidenced by my recent zip lining video.  However, these simple tips from photographer Kim Olson will help...

In all the years I’ve lived here, I have never enjoyed a ride on a California zip line.  Being the adventurous person that I am, this may come as a shock to many.  After hanging out with Bryan and Vicky Saturday night in Mariposa, I had to try it. After all, this was my...

I think I am going through a mid life crisis.  OK, most people look at me don’t think I am old enough to have a mid life crisis.  However, I just celebrated my 38th birthday in Yosemite. For a while, I’ve wrestled with my thoughts as I’ve traveled this past year.  I had a...

I hate cruises.  I’ve never taken one.  I don’t really have a desire to take one.  And the recent Carnival Cruise disaster only reaffirms my position on cruises. So yes I hate cruises.  And I am not alone. I hate cruises – a growing trend? After the recent disaster with this cruise, I decided...

The Budget Travel Guides are travel tips to help you save money and enrich your travel experiences.  Rock n’ Roll, sports, and food come alive in Ohio!  In this Cleveland Travel Guide, Dale Cooper Frank shares his travel tips for one of Ohio’s top cities. If you’re looking for a city whose cultural and culinary offerings...

Thousands of people line California’s roads through Mariposa County to visit Yosemite in all its colorful, breath-taking glory.  Yet a few miles down the road awaits a true adventure for both young and old – a Yosemite zipline. As cars drive along Highway 140, they pass through the California town of Mariposa.  Main street...

Angkor Wat may be the most popular tourist attraction in the country but this Cambodia travel guide shows that there is much more to this country than beautiful temples.   Budget Travel Guides help you save money and connect with places around the world.  This Cambodia travel guide will show you a side of...

As I walked through downtown Dallas, the scene played out like a movie.  The assassination of JFK had been a fascination of mine since I was a kid.  Now here I was – one of the most life changing historical moments in US history. As I stared at the grassy knoll, the book depository,...

I have another travel confession to make.  But before I bare my travel soul…again…I want to focus on a positive, exciting moment instead. Like the cold, dark, wet winter. For a guy who has spent most of his life in South Carolina and California, I didn’t experience much winter weather, play in a lot...