The Witches’ Market: Spells, Amulets, Charms and Dried Llama Fetuses!

Location: La Paz, Bolivia – El Mercado de las Brujas/Mercado de Hechiceria (Witches’ Market)
Street Location: Calle Linares, between Calle Sagarnaga and Santa Cruz

“Son para dinero y trabajo,” the plump little witch raises the talismans to eye level. “Con estos tu tendras buena suerte.”

Magic talismans for money and jobs? Do they work? Of course not, but I need all the luck I can get, so I purchase the talismans for five Bolivianos. Darn cheap if they’ll do as claimed. Depositing the new toys in my leather shoulder bag I continue down the street, with my wife teasing me to the tune of “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” She says that I have the hat, jacket and bag similar to Indiana Jones’, but lack the bullwhip and gun. I left those in the States.

The cobbled street of Calle Linares hosts a crowded line of unusual stores collectively known as El Mercado de las Brujas, The Witches’ Market, located in downtown La Paz, and it sums up Bolivia’s strangeness quite well. Bolivia is where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and revolutionary Che Guevara all met their fate. This is where the British ambassador to Bolivia was strapped naked to a donkey, paraded around the capital, and forced to eat a huge quantity of chocolate after declining the local drink ‘chicha.’ This is where the original Garden of Eden is located (or so the locals colorfully exclaim). This is where the Salt Palace sits, a hotel made entirely of, well, salt. And this is where a young girl in Aymara dress, sitting amidst an array of several curiosities, offers my wife and I a dried llama fetus to protect our house against evil spirits. I nod my approval, Veronica makes a face and shakes her head.

“Por favor entren,” with a slight bow the girl opens her hands to the store’s entrance. “Hay muchas mas cosas adentro.”

The untidy place looks like something out of a horror movie. Mounted animal heads glare at me with unseeing eyes, feathers and potions adorn the tables, herbs spill from their dirty bags onto the wooden floor as a dog sniffs the powerful smells. I examine the items in no particular order as the girl offers them. For luck with a new business enterprise I can buy a llama fetus burnt on a plate of sweets and herbs – too big to pack. The love amulet is to get married – don’t need that one. An amulet of a naked couple embracing to improve the sex life – hhhmmmmm.

Dried frogs for more money, armadillos to prevent thieves from entering the house, love potions, magic charms, animal skins, medicines and remedies used in Aymara traditions are all for sale – what should I choose?

I notice a large collection of different colored candles. Intent upon making several sales the girl provides me with an explanation of their powers. They are made of animal wax and when burned release their magical properties. The blue candle is for good luck with work, yellow – health, green – money, purple – happiness, black wards off evil spirits, only to be used in a cemetery covered by night, white – protection…

With reverence I pull the black candle off its shelf . “Look at this Vero! This is what we need.”

“Hey Indiana,” she looks up from the naked couple amulet. “I don’t think so.”

Where did I leave my bullwhip?

If the black candle is going to cause problems a few talismans will have to do. I load up ten more in my shoulder bag, making sure that I include the toad talisman for good luck with money, and the deity talisman for buena suerte with jobs.

But do they actually work? Well, you’re reading this article.

Thomas Carroll

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The Tao Philosophy of Independent Travel

What is an Independent Traveler?

There is a certain philosophy that the independent traveler adheres to. While the tourist looks for comfort, convenience and a home away from home, the independent traveler prefers to become part of the culture as much as possible. The independent traveler likes to leave home behind.

There are many different terms in use to describe independent travelers. A hobo, in this sense, is someone without a home, spends very little or no money, and travels to work. A backpacker is a traveler on a budget who’s luggage is usually a single backpack. A flashpacker has more money to spend than the hobo or backpacker, but still prefers the lifestyle of independent travel.

Regardless of the term used, independent travelers share a common philosophy.

The Independent Traveler:

1) Does Not Like to be Pampered

Independent travelers have a distaste for typical, over-priced packaged tours. They avoid rigid itineraries, instead preferring to plan their own trips. Rather than being pampered during their travels, independents feel more comfortable on their own. When one is told when to eat, where to go and how long to stay, it is like putting a noose on experience. Independents rely on their own judgment, they do not let others think for them or tell them what to do.

2) Spends Less Money to Enjoy More

The less money an independent traveler spends, the more he or she enjoys the trip. Big spending tends to isolate the traveler from new, vibrant experience. Rather than getting caught up in the consumer trap of buying expensive souvenirs, paying for useless accessories and the “convenience” of doing what you are told to do on a tour, independents do more of the things they enjoy doing, rather than buying things that distracts one from the experience of the trip.

3) Travels Light

Traveling with lots of luggage is a huge inconvenience that costs the traveler time, money and worry. All those things that tourists take with them on vacation actually impedes the trip, rather than enhance it. One of the purposes of travel is to enjoy what is there, not what is at home. Traveling light provides more freedom for the traveler and instead of baby-sitting all those “important” material possessions one can focus on experiencing life.

4) Becomes Immersed in the Culture

It is very difficult, even impossible, to experience a new place or culture when you are sheltered in a tour bus, or in a fancy hotel. The only way to maximize the experience of new things is to step into them and participate with an open mind. One travels to a foreign place to experience the foreign. Yet, too often the tourist erects shields to become isolated from the foreign experiences sought. The independent traveler does not fear what is foreign, but seeks it out and slowly, courteously, attempts to let it become a part of his or her life.

5) Goes with the Flow

Worry kills enjoyment. Time schedules, tasks and material things contribute to worry. When worry pounds away in your head you cannot truly experience what is there. It is easy to see with the eyes, it is an art to understand with the mind. The independent traveler knows that not everything always goes to plan; a flight might be cancelled, a bus could be delayed, the weather may not be ideal. With a tight schedule these things could ruin a trip. With flexibility one can actually learn to enjoy them. Sometimes things happen for a reason. Sometimes you can find without seeking.

6) Believes that a Vacation is an Education

When one continues to do the same things one has always done, he or she will continue to receive the same results. Travel to the independent is more than a vacation, it is an education. Independent travel allows the individual to try new things, to see beyond one’s mental and cultural background, to experience, to learn and to grow. When one travels with an open mind learning becomes a delightful activity. Acquaintances learn from the traveler, the traveler learns from them, and therefore learns more about his or her person than otherwise would be possible. Learning extends beyond the four walls of a classroom to include the world.

7) Enjoys Freedom

To achieve freedom one does not need more. One needs less. The independent traveler has very few time constraints, material possessions, itineraries and lists of things to do. The independent is free to take advantage of any opportunity that comes along. The independent may stay up late to watch the sun set, wander into an isolated village, discover healing rituals of a disappearing culture, enjoy extra time with old friends and accept the gracious hospitality of new ones. The independent traveler understands that baggage should be left at home.

Leave things behind to take the world with you.

Thomas Carroll

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Hospitality Exchange Programs: Free Accommodation for Travelers

When you want to travel you might become discouraged over the high prices of hotel rooms. $100 a night just for a place to sleep can put a huge dent in your travel budget (besides, you want to spend time enjoying the area, not spending all day in a hotel room, right?)

There are travelers all over the world that feel the same way you do. Thankfully, by networking with other travelers, there is a way to avoid hotel costs. You can find a place to stay for free!

Hospitality exchange programs, also known as home stay networks, have lists of people (usually other travelers) that are willing to let travelers stay at their homes for free. A member offers a place to stay at his or her home to other travelers, in exchange for similar offers from the entire network of travelers.

You can find several of these clubs by doing keyword searches for “hospitality exchange” and “couch surfing.”

There are several exchange networks that connect hosts and guests worldwide. Most of these groups let you sign up for free on their websites. Some networks just ask you to fill out a form to join, while others require more verification.

Once you’ve signed up to a network you can search the website to find free places to stay during your trip. Hosts may offer the traveler a room, a bed or a couch. Most hosts have a wealth of information about the local area and are willing to show the traveler around a bit. An additional bonus is that some will even provide free meals!

You can read reviews about a host left by other travelers to get a feel for what their experiences were like at the host‘s home. When you have found an offer that you like you’ll need to contact the host a few days or so before your arrival.

Don’t forget your friends and family. They may be able to offer you a free place to stay as well. It is a good idea to develop your friend network by meeting other travelers and participating online at social sites and forums. Be sure to keep their contact information current and drop them a note once in a while. They’ll be invaluable travel aids and you can return the favor. Travel often enough and eventually you’ll collect addresses from people across the globe.

When participating in any home exchange, remember that you are a guest. Try to abide by your host’s house rules to make things more comfortable for everyone. Help out with the daily duties when you can. If you are staying at a home in a foreign culture it is wise to learn about their customs. Sometimes what is perfectly normal to you can be very offensive to your host. Be courteous and polite. Most hosts expect you to stay for about three days, but it really depends on each individual. After your stay don’t forget to send some kind of thank you note for the kind hospitality.

Using hospitality networks takes very little planning. Once you have signed up to a few of the networking sites that you like best, it will usually be easy to locate free places to stay all over the world. Not only will you save a lot of money, but you may also come away with valuable friendships.

Thomas Carroll

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Make Money Traveling with Stock Photography

“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

There are several stock photography websites that want your pictures. These sites will pay you a percentage for every one of your pictures that gets downloaded, each time it is downloaded. Your pictures can be downloaded an unlimited number of times.

Many individuals, businesses, organizations, websites and print publications are in constant need of a wide variety of quality photographs for their websites, sales letters, brochures, magazines, videos and newspapers. These entities regularly turn to stock photography websites to buy the photographs that they need.

You can submit your digital photographs to websites like iStock.com and Shutterstock.com. You don’t need to be a professional photographer. You just need a digital camera (with extra memory cards) and internet access. Signing up for these websites is free. Each time one of your pictures is downloaded you’ll get paid a percentage of the cost of the photograph, which generally comes to twenty-five cents to several dollars.

Just about any type of digital picture is accepted as long as it is of high quality. Your pictures need to be in JPG/JPEG and for most stock websites they should be 1600 x 1200 pixels or larger. New photographers for Shutterstock need to submit photographs that are 4.0 Megapixels or Million Pixels (MP).

You can calculate the number of pixels in a photograph by multiplying the width by the height. A picture that is 1600×1200 is 1.92 million pixels.

In photographs that depict a minor, or where an identifiable human face is visible, you will need to send a model release with the picture to the website. You need to submit original work and make sure that you do not include copyrighted material or logos in your images. Do not submit photographs that have been increased in size from their original file size. You should read the submission guidelines from each website before you start posting your pictures.

Once you have uploaded a picture to a stock photography website, it stays there for as long as you like (even for years). Every time it gets downloaded you earn money. You can upload your pictures to several different websites as long as the websites allow the submission of non-exclusive photographs.

For example: let’s say that you have accumulated 1,000 high quality photographs for stock photography websites. You upload each image to ten different websites. So each site now has 1,000 different pictures. You have a total of 10,000 images uploaded on the various sites. If each of your pictures get downloaded just twice every thirty days, and your commission is only $0.25 cents for each download, you’ll be making $5,000 a month!

You can take ten pictures a day and upload each one to ten different stock photography websites. In just three months you’ll have about 900 photographs uploaded 9,000 times.

What is really cool about this is that once your pictures are uploaded they continue to make money for you with no additional work on your part. If you continuously upload pictures to the stock websites you can earn even more. There are several people that do this full-time and make $5,000, even $8,000 a month.

Most of the stock websites pay you once a month through PayPal, MoneyBookers, paper check or direct deposit.

You can start by taking pictures in your area, or travel anywhere and make a very healthy living by taking stock photographs. The more pictures you upload, the more earning potential you have. You can make great money from this “job” from just about anywhere in the world.

Thomas Carroll

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Expeditions: How to Raise Money for Your Adventures

Do you have a good idea for an adventure, but don’t have the funds to put it into action? Will this adventure interest people with an educational, scientific, environmental, humanitarian or historical value? Could this adventure generate publicity? If so, you can get sponsors to pay for your adventure through an expedition.

The first thing to do is to clearly define your goal and plan the expedition. You need to thoroughly answer the following questions:

1) Who?
2) What?
3) When?
4) Where?
5) Why?
6) How?

Contact organizations to help you with the planning. The National Geographic Society (NGS) has a huge collection of information about adventure and the world. They also fund expeditions. The Royal Geographical Society (RGS) maintains an Expedition Advisory Center. The Center has listings of expeditions, people interested in attending expeditions, experts and books. RGS offers grants for expeditions and provides links to other grant resources.

Put up a website that details the goals, benefits and amount of funding needed for your expedition. Be sure to include a donation payment button. You can make a page on http://www.justgiving.com. This website specializes in helping people and organizations raise money.

Contact your family, friends and colleagues with your expedition proposal. Ask them to contact all of their friends and acquaintances as well. A great way to do this is through social networking websites. Let all of your internet friends know about what you plan to do and ask for their support. Even if they don’t donate any money they can still send your proposal out to all of their internet friends, and those friends can forward the proposal to their friends as well. In this way your proposal may go viral.

Send your proposal to relevant professional bodies and businesses, universities, politicians, prominent scientists, exploration societies and organizations. Make sure that you include benefits that they will receive for their active interest. “The Directory of Grant-Making Trusts” at your library will help you find the appropriate sponsors, as will an internet search for “Grant-Making Trusts.”

Collect your supportive statements and names, goals, and plans and put it all together for a media release. Send this release to newspapers, magazines, radio shows and television news programs, asking for support from universities, governments, private institutions, and other organizations. Again, make sure that you include benefits (like publicity) that these groups will receive for their support.

You can also host fundraising events. This is an excellent way to get your message out to the media. Once your fundraiser has been planned contact media outlets with the relevant details of your fundraiser. Let them know that they are invited to attend, and that you are available for interviews.

Follow up prospective sponsors with a telephone call and ask for a meeting when possible. At the meeting clearly and enthusiastically present your expedition idea, and play heavily on the benefits the organization is likely to receive for donating funds.

Once the expedition is over write a report of the results obtained. And be sure to thank everyone for their donations and support.

Repeat this process over and over again and you will have enough money to do anything you like from anywhere in the world.

Thomas Carroll

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Hostels: What They Are and Where to Find Them

Hostels are budget accommodations for travelers. They offer an excellent alternative to the traditional motel or hotel, and they exist in most parts of the world for the traveler who wants to hostel stomp and save tons of cash to travel for longer periods of time.

Usually hostels have several bunk beds in each room. Instead of renting one room to one or two people like hotels do, hostels rent a room to four or more people and may therefore offer a substantial discount. Where a hotel might offer a room for two people at $80 a night or more, a hostel can rent a room to eight people for $10 a night each, and still make as much money as a traditional hotel, sometimes more. The cost of hostels in the U.S. average between $8 and $25 per night. In other countries (depending on where you go) hostels can be as cheap as $2 to $3 per night.

Hostels range from the basics of a room and bath, to huge buildings that include kitchens, internet service, recreation rooms, televisions, gyms, and libraries. Some hostels offer free breakfast and the occasional party or tour. Lockers or deposit boxes are available to store your valuables, but bring your own lock.

When a hostel offers free internet and breakfast you’ll save even more money than just on a place to stay. If a kitchen is available you can cook your own meals instead of going out to eat, which helps tremendously in keeping your money where it belongs – in your pocket.

If you want to meet other travelers and get travel information, hostels are the way to go. Message boards are posted with notes from travelers looking for companions or selling plane and bus tickets. Transportation deals, flyers from other hostels, tour groups, and other useful information are also posted. If you are looking for something to do in the city you are visiting you can ask the staff for suggestions. They are usually very knowledgeable about the area and helpful.

The downside to some hostels are the regulations they have for the visitor. Most hostels require an out of state ID (in the USA) or a passport. Sometimes a bus or plane ticket must be shown to prove that you are traveling, and an extra dollar or two may be charged to rent blankets and a towel. Some travelers prefer to bring their own towel and a “sleep sheet.” This is simply a folded sheet that is sewn together on one side, somewhat like a sleeping bag.

Occasionally chores are assigned to offset a few of the costs of running the hostel, curfews and other rules may affect any party plans that you might have. However, most hostels do not have many rules as they tend to steer independent travelers in other directions.

Hostels are available world-wide in almost every big city and in several small cities. Hostels are especially valuable in expensive countries like the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan.

Do a keyword search for “hostels” in your favorite search engine. You will find several resources that list virtually every hostel in the world. In most cases you can book your hostel in advance online.

Hostels can save you hundreds, even thousands of dollars every time you travel. So the next time you are planning a vacation on a budget be sure to give hostelling some serious consideration.

Resources:

http://www.hostels.com

http://www.hostelworld.com

Thomas Carroll

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How to Increase the Value of Your Money While Traveling

Few people seem to realize that traveling can actually increase the value of their money. But not just any sort of travel will accomplish this aim, one must have a carefully planned itinerary of where one wants to travel. Most of the widely accepted currencies allow one to increase his or her assets with little difficulty.

When you take a currency like the British Pound (GBP), Euro (EUR) or U.S. Dollar (USD) to certain countries and exchange it into the local currency, it can increase in worth by one, three, even five times or more from its previous value. This kind of increase makes world travel very possible — simply by crossing the borders of some countries your bankroll instantly increases in value.

Traveling for short vacations can be expensive due to the high costs of plane tickets and getting temporarily settled into a new location. However, traveling for extended periods of time (for one month to a couple or years) actually saves money through the decrease of major transportation costs and getting settled into a foreign place. So when taking a trip it is often best to think one big vacation (saves money) rather than a few short vacations (costs more).

When planning a budget trip aim for countries that offer a good exchange rate against your currency. You can find currency exchange rates at http://www.xe.com. Using this as a guide you can make a list of the countries with good exchange rates that you would like to visit. You can also check travel websites for recommendations on cheap countries to visit, and the average cost a day for traveling within.

You can choose one cheap country to stay in for your entire vacation, or choose several to travel to. If you are going to several countries you can plan an itinerary where cheap countries are adjoined; for instance, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.

If the countries are not neighbors you can buy an Round-the-World ticket. These tickets allow you to travel from country to country as planned within a certain period of time. Round-the-World tickets are usually available for very reasonable prices and may be found by doing an internet search.

With an itinerary to visit cheap countries extended travel becomes very possible as your money substantially increases. You can take $1,000, travel to select countries, and have that $1,000 swell to the equivalent of $3,000, $5,000, or more. So save up, make a simple plan, and you’re on your way.

Thomas Carroll

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Free Travel: How to Get “All Expenses Paid” Vacations

You can travel the world for free by becoming an “Outside Agent” or “Group Travel Organizer” for travel agencies.

Travel agencies usually have a wide range of domestic and international tour packages available. These tours typically last from ten to fourteen days, with groups of about ten to thirty people for each tour. Travel agencies constantly need people to sign up for their tours and most heartily welcome any help they can get in recruiting new tourists for their services. When you put a travel group together for the agency you can receive a free (all expenses paid!) vacation.

You can visit travel agencies directly, or locate them through internet searches. Contract with them for a free trip in exchange for you securing a group of people to sign up for a tour with the agency. For example, for a cruise, you’ll need maybe 9 to 15 people to sign up with the agency for you to travel for free. Make sure you find out exactly how many people you need to sign up for the tour so you can travel for free. Also ask if the tour will cover your airfare or not, and get all details related to the tour. Dates, times, schedules, costs, food, accommodations, transportation, sight-seeing, etc. Ask the travel agent if he or she can supply you with brochures or flyers, with your name, phone number and email address, to hand out to potential sign-ups.

When putting a group together talk to friends, relatives and co-workers. Visit churches and organizations with your travel proposal. Post and handout your flyers to everyone you can. Send emails to everyone you know, and ask them to forward the message. Let all of the friends you have in social sites like FaceBook.com know about the trip. You may even consider placing small classified ads in newspapers for more leads. Write an article about the tour’s destination and offer it for free to newspapers, magazines, blogs and websites as long as they include your contact information.

Giving travel presentations is another great way to get people to sign up for the tour. Your church, retirement organizations, Veterans groups, Kiwis, American Legion and Rotary Club are all good places to give your presentation. Provide refreshments and have plenty of flyers on hand. Your home is another place where you could hold presentations. Invite family and friends, and ask them to invite their family and friends. You can speak about the tour, show a video, or have a travel agent that represents the agency give the presentation.

Once your group is organized collect deposits from each member as required from the agency. This ensures that the people are serious about going. Most deposits are refundable up to a certain date as prescribed by the agency, so little or no risk is involved for your group in paying deposits. Then make sure that each group member gets their travel vouchers and know the departure date, time and location.

You go with the tour group for free, and when you get back home you can do this all over again to have another all expenses paid vacation. Do this as often as you like to go anywhere in the world for free.

Thomas Carroll

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World Travel On $1,000 A Month Or Less

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
– Susan Sontag

Do you believe that it’s expensive to travel? Have you
ever excitedly looked over a glossy brochure of your dream
vacation, only to discover that it will cost you thousands
and thousands of dollars for a single 10 day vacation?

If this has happened to you, I can understand. I too would
dream about traveling the world, but get disenhearted when I
saw those expensive price tags placed on travel.

But I have learned that travel is NOT expensive. You see,
travel agencies want you to believe that it costs a LOT of
money to travel. That way they can jack-up the prices of
tours to earn a bigger commission for themselves. They want
you to think that you must have money, a lot of money, to be
able to travel.

This kind of thinking does not help the majority of us. It
distances us from our dreams.

A fact that most people don’t realize, is that world travel
can be down-right cheap. It can actually be cheaper, a lot
cheaper, than staying at home.

It amuses me that travel agencies try to SELL travel. They
try to get you to pay for things that you can do all by
yourself. They don’t want you to know this, but -

You Don’t Need Them.

What do people do when they travel anyway? They get a place
to sleep, eat, use transportation systems and spend money on
entertainment and a few miscellaneous things like laundry,
clothes and souvenirs.

What do you do at home? You pay the rent, buy your food (and
sometimes go out to eat), you drive or use the bus, and you
spend money on entertainment and a few miscellaneous things
like cable and utilities.

Travel costs are really the same damn thing as staying at
home; the big difference is that you’ll be seeing and doing
a lot of different things.

Let me ask you this: If I were to offer you a place to stay
in your home-town, meals, entertainment for you of my
choosing, and have a strictly scheduled shuttle-bus that
takes you where I want you to go and when, and I’ll only
charge you $10,000 a month for the BASIC package, would you
accept it?

Not only would you not accept it, but you’d

LAUGH IN MY FACE!

So why do travelers consistently do this very-same thing?
Why do they pay travel agencies a ton of money for the very
things they can do all by themselves, for a lot cheaper, and
for a lot more freedom and flexibility?

World travel is not expensive at all if you know how to do
it. You can travel the world for about $1,000 a month;
that’s only about $33 a day.

How much do you spend on a normal day at home?

Here is an example of a single-person’s average monthly
expenses in the United States (this is a modest estimate):

Rent: $800 a month
Food: $300
Transportation (gas, insurance): $400
Utilities (phone, internet, electricity, water,
cable): $300
Entertainment: $300
Misc. (clothes, gifts, doctor bills): $400

Total: $2,500

Now let’s sum-up the average monthly costs of world travel
(when you know how to do it):

Hotels: $300
Food: $150
Transportation: $300
Utilities: $0.00
Entertainment/Site-Seeing: $200
Misc. (internet cafes, souvenirs, clothes): $50

Total: $1,000

Let’s break this down by day:

Hotel: $10
Food: $5
Transportation: $10
Entertainment/Site-Seeing: $6.67
Misc.: $1.67

Daily total: $33.34 USD

World travel costs less than staying at home, and offers a
lot more freedom.

I’m sure you’re thinking that I am grossly under-estimating
travel costs. But actually, the expenses above can be a LOT
cheaper.

Did you know that in some countries you can book a three-
star hotel for $10? Or that you can get comfortable
accommodation for as low as $0.50 to $6.00 per night? Are
you aware of the tens of thousands of people across the
globe that invite travelers to stay at their homes – for
free?

How about food? Full-blown buffets are offered for $0.50.
Lunches with soup, the main course, a soda and dessert can
be had for $1.50. Some companies will even pay you to dine
at their restaurants!

Transportation? How about taxis that go anywhere in the
city for $2. Inter-country buses for $20 to $50. Or
international flights at 80% off?

Remember, people actually live in the countries that are
foreign to you. In some countries the average monthly wage
is only $150 – but it is enough to live on.

If they’re not paying thousands and thousands of dollars a
month to be where they are, then why should you?

In many places, with just $1,000 a month to spend, far from
living like a pauper, you’ll be living like a king.

“I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling
abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend
afterwards at home.” – William Hazlitt

Be Free,

Thomas Carroll

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How to Save Thousands of Dollars on Airfare

One of the biggest hurdles people have when they want to travel is the high cost of airfare. There are many countries in the world that are cheap to travel in, but getting there can get expensive. If you could slash the cost of airfare by 50% or even 80% you would be able to travel a lot more often.

There is a very simple yet highly effective way to find the cheapest flights available to just about anywhere in the world. I frequently use this method to save thousands of dollars on airfare.

For example, recently I wanted to take my family from Lima, Peru to Las Vegas, Nevada. Through normal channels each ticket was priced at $1,000 to $2,500 at the time (so it would cost $4,000 to $10,000 just in round trip tickets for the four of us).

I noticed that most of the flights to Las Vegas stopped in Miami, Florida with connecting flights to Las Vegas. So searching a special software system I looked for round trip tickets to Miami from Lima and found tickets for only $306. Then I searched for round trip tickets from Miami to Las Vegas and found prices for only $227. That’s a savings of at least $467 for each person. Since I was buying four tickets, the total savings was at least $1,868 and up to a savings of $7,868! Not only did we save a lot of money and go to Las Vegas, but we also visited Miami as an extra bonus.

The software I use is what many travel agents use but don’t want you to know about. Why? Because by using this software in most cases you can cut out the middle-man (the travel agent, avoid paying a commission, and find and purchase your tickets by yourself for huge savings.

The software I use to save thousands of dollars on airfare is called ITA Software, and it’s free. ITA Software searches several airlines to find you the best possible price, it also offers a lot more search options than the popular airfare search systems. Instead of doing a search for specific days, you can do a search for the entire month to find the cheapest days to fly.

This month-long search feature means tremendous savings for you. No longer will you be confined to search specific dates, or have to ask travel agents to do the search for you (and pay commissions). Instead, you’ll be able to search every-single day of the year if you’d like, to find the absolute cheapest flights available to your destination.

So before you purchase a plane ticket be sure to first check out ITA Software: http://matrix.itasoftware.com

Thomas Carroll

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