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Category Archives: Budget Travel

Age and Travel

I knew a really cool girl in Guatemala. She was pretty, fun, smart and interesting. One day someone told me that she’s 33.
Phew, I thought. Someone can be a pretty, fun, smart and interesting traveler in her thirties. This came as an incredible relief, because like most women past 25, I can feel my thirties [...]

Posted 29 March 2010 † Caitlin § Solo Travel § Travel ‡ Comments (3) °

In defense of entry and exit taxes

One of my favourite travel writers is Wade from Vagabond Journey. One of my favourite things about his blog is that, well, I disagree with him a lot of the time. Sometimes he even pisses me off. Wade doesn’t necessarily know this, because I try to keep my “internet fights” to a minimum. Anyways, besides [...]

Posted 21 March 2010 † Caitlin § ‡ Comments (4) °

Into the day-to-day

Check this out. I’m living in an apartment with roommates, working 9 to 5 and spending many evenings watching pirated TV shows. I guess this is everyday living, only somewhere different.
All summer I have been in “travel mode.” I may have been on a budget, but being in “travel mode” still means “vacation mode” which [...]

Posted 07 September 2009 † Caitlin § Guatemala ‡ Comments (0) °

How to be on a budget in Caye Caulker

By my standards (certainly not everyone’s) I spent a ridiculous amount of money in Belize. A basic place to sleep, simple meals (many cooked in the hotel) and maybe one beer set me back about 30-35 dollars a day. Part of the problem is that everything (even stuff in supermarkets) has to be shipped to [...]

Posted 28 August 2009 † Caitlin § Belize § Food and Drink § Travel ‡ Comments (0) °

To “party” or not?

This is the dilemma I face when traveling, and, to be honest, in life in general.
On one hand, I’m not nearly the partier I used to be. Often, I prefer to read, write or spend time with friends at home, or watch a movie and/or guilty-pleasure television. Many times when I grab a beer, [...]

Posted 14 July 2009 † Caitlin § Guatemala § Parties and Fun ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged:

Don’t Worry Until the Locals Start to Scream: adventures on Guatemalan “chicken buses.”

Chicken buses, or “camionetas” as they are known to locals, are pimped-up second hand school buses that serve as the most common form of public transportation in Guatemala. They zip along the roads of Guatemala, leaving a trail of black exaust and the sounds of “Xela Xela Xela” or “Guate Guate Guate” in their wake. [...]

Posted 28 June 2009 † Caitlin § Guatemala § Travel Safety ‡ Comments (4) °

Budget Travel Woes

or
“I Hemorrhage Money”
or
“Now Taking Bets on When I Will Be Broke.”
I am not nearly the “budget traveler” that I’d like to think I am.
This isn’t to say that I mind roughing it. I am, as my father would say, “a mudder.” I sleep in the $4 dorms, I enjoy cheap street food [...]

Posted 27 May 2009 † Caitlin § Travel ‡ Comments (3) °