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	<title>Tim Leffel&#039;s Cheapest Destinations &#187; Travel bargains</title>
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		<title>Your Rate is Negotiable</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2010/03/17/your-rate-is-negotiable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cheap Africa Travel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s important to remember one key point when you are traveling: hotel/hostel/guesthouse rates are negotiable.
Most backpackers figure this out in a few days and some go overboard using it as their guiding mantra for the next year on the road. But I get a fair number of e-mails and blog comments asking, &#8220;How do I [...]


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<li><a href='http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/03/03/a-buyers-market-on-cheap-airfares/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: A Buyer&#8217;s Market on Cheap Airfares'>A Buyer&#8217;s Market on Cheap Airfares</a></li>
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		<title>Shoestring Travel Means Getting Used to the Simple Life</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2010/03/08/shoestring-travel-means-getting-used-to-the-simple-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Long-term travel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How well do you deal with camping for days? With outdoor toilets? Sleeping in rooms that are way too hot or way too cold? Taking cold showers? Wearing the same clothes for months?
Many of the most unhappy budget travelers I&#8217;ve met in the midst of the round-the-world journey they&#8217;ve dreamed about are having trouble coping [...]


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		<title>Where the Travel Bargains Are This Year</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2010/03/05/where-the-travel-bargains-are-this-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cheap Asia Travel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Destination reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perceptive Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel bargains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vacation deals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[small group tours]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having a book out on the world&#8217;s cheapest destinations makes me a bit opinionated about which countries offer the best bang for your budget. While those options stay relatively constant, there are fluctuations from year to year, or even in the space of a month sometimes. The formulas guiding economics and spending are always receiving [...]


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<li><a href='http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/09/24/bargains-in-the-cheapest-destinations/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Bargains in the Cheapest Destinations'>Bargains in the Cheapest Destinations</a></li>
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		<title>Spring Cleaning Book Blowout</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2010/02/26/spring-cleaning-book-blowout/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leffel projects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel bargains]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I signed a listing agreement to sell my house because this summer we&#8217;re packing it all up and moving to central Mexico for a year. So I&#8217;ve got to backpedal from hoarding mode to unloading mode pronto.
This includes unloading my own books I have sitting around for when people order from me direct. So [...]


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		<title>Cheap Travel Advice Roundup</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2010/02/24/cheap-travel-advice-roundup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cheap holidays]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, I&#8217;m scouring the web for cheap travel advice that doesn&#8217;t suck. (So you don&#8217;t have to read all the advice that does.) Here&#8217;s a collection of tips and tricks worth following.
The Frugal Travel blog has a great rundown on various ways to find the cheapest airline tickets. My trial period test was a [...]


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		<title>We&#8217;ve Been Here Before</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2010/02/15/weve-been-here-before/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Long-term travel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just for kicks, I went back and looked at some of my posts from when this Cheapest Destinations blog first got off the ground, when the first edition of my book had just hit the market. As hard as it is for me to believe, that was nearly seven years ago, back in 2003. Everyone [...]


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		<title>The World&#8217;s Cheapest Destinations for iPhone and Kindle</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2010/02/12/the-worlds-cheapest-destinations-for-iphone-and-kindle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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If you want to read The World&#8217;s Cheapest Destinations cyber-style, you can do it. And the bytes will cost you less than the physical book.
For the iPhone, you can buy the PDF version from my publisher ($7.95) and download it to your iPhone. See the instructions here as it has to be done a certain [...]


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		<title>A Better Time Now to Travel With Dollars</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2010/02/08/a-better-time-now-to-travel-with-dollars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cheap Europe Travel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bulgaria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Czech Republic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a topsy-turvy past 18 months for the world&#8217;s currencies and for the moment anyway, the U.S. dollar is back up again. If you&#8217;re up for a winter trip to Europe, your travel dollars will stretch a lot further than they would have at most times in the past five years.
The official exchange rate [...]


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		<title>Cheap Travel Destination Opportunity: Honduras</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2010/02/01/cheap-travel-destination-honduras/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cheap Latin America Travel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vacation deals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caribbean deals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copan Honduras]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
I&#8217;ve talked a lot on this Cheapest Destinations blog about taking advantage of opportunities when they present themselves. Just as it is smart to buy a stock when it has been beaten down far below what logic would dictate, it makes a lot of sense to visit a travel destination when everyone else is staying [...]


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		<title>Travel Advice for the Budget Minded</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2010/01/25/travel-advice-for-the-budget-minded/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent much of last week in lilly-white Salt Lake City at the winter Outdoor Retailer&#8217;s show, checking out what&#8217;s new for Practical Travel Gear. So while I get caught up here&#8217;s some great advice from others on saving money in your travels.
Budget Travel has a really great rundown on how to ski without breaking [...]


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