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What makes a great souvenir, especially when you don't want to spend a lot of money? And how do you find unique items of real value?

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With no boat to call my own, or budget to rent one of the many luxurious yachts that trawl the Caribbean each winter, I shelled out $55 a day to join the crew of the 75-foot schooner S.V. Illusion. For two weeks, I plied the waters between St. ...

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Living off savings and investments, the Dee family - Jeanne, 57, Vince, 56, and their 9-year-old daughter - have been traveling the world and chronicling their adventures since 2006.

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AirBnB.com is a Web site that connects budget travelers with locals who are offering anything from an air mattress in their living room to a private bedroom in a luxury loft.

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Learn how to shoot like a magazine photographer on a shoestring budget.

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A guide to a half-dozen hidden gems with interesting pasts or mission.

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People with roots in India, China, Japan, England, France and, of course, the Pacific Northwest have long lived together in Canada's most diverse city. The result? Delicious interminglings of cuisine.

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On Galiano a low-budget trip takes on the open-ended feeling of summer 1979.

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From the Puritans to the freegans, Ms. Weber - a 38-year-old former reporter for Reuters and Newsday - traces the evolution of thriftiness, larding her historical account with personal tales.

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For as long as nice clothes have been expensive (which is to say forever), New Yorkers have found ways to get high-end looks for less.

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Using Google Maps, two friends took a virtual road trip and "drove" from Los Angeles to Richmond, Va., with their mice and keyboards as steering wheels.

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With these travel medicine tips, travelers can indulge in all the joys of low-budget travel from street food to hostels without getting sick or going broke.

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In the five months since I wrote about cheap ways to phone home in "Staying in Touch Internationally, on the Cheap" (March 24), much has changed in the world of making affordable, even free, calls while traveling. And not all of it is good.






























