Books tagged: travel on a shoestring

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Travel Happy, Budget Low    by Susanna Zaraysky
Price: $2.99 USD. 32010 words. Published on December 13, 2009. .

Travel Happy, Budget Low: Over 200 Money Saving Tips to See the World is the primer on budget travel. Susanna Zaraysky has over 200 tips and 160 Internet resources cover everything from frequent flyer mile tricks to free accommodations.
The Hitchers of Oz    by Tom/Simon Sykes
Price: $12.99 USD. 73240 words. Published by Dr David Reiter on April 3, 2010. .

World famous actor Sam Neill and rap legend Chuck D rub shoulders with writers like J P Donleavy and Carmel Bird. Physicists, business leaders, publishers, political activists, soldiers, poets, athletes and comic book creators are brought together by their common experience of hitching a ride sometime in the past.
Stealing Fatima's Hand    by Carolyn Theriault
Price: $6.99 USD. 118110 words. Published by Vox Humana Books  on May 30, 2010. .

“ …Finally a grand taxi stopped and offered to take us to the train station for the unbelievably low fare of twenty dirham, so unbelievably low, that I was not a little disappointed when the driver didn’t rob us, slit our throats, and dump our bodies into the Strait of Gibraltar… “ Stealing Fatima’s Hand is a collection of narratives presenting an alternative view of Morocco.
Kitten Heels in Kathmandu, Adventures of a Female Vagabond    by Mary Bartnikowski
Price: $9.99 USD. 70390 words. Published on February 12, 2012. .

Mary, newly minted as a lone warrior after raising her son, sells everything she owns, breaks free of the USA and takes us on a water slide ride photographing the Dalai Lama in India to riding elephants bareback in Nepal. Across 27 countries by train, boat, bus, motorbike, and rickshaw she discovers that courage takes practice and wanderlust costs less than it does to stay home working.
Track Us Down! An Around-the-World Backpacking Expedition with Kids    by D.B. Bailey
Price: $3.99 USD. 66090 words. Published on March 4, 2012. .

Author D.B. Bailey disproves the common viewpoint that your extended-travel days are over once you are married, tied to a career, or have kids. Track Us Down! takes the reader along Bailey's one-year, around-the-world backpacking expedition with his wife and two young boys - the theory, the planning, and all the stops along the way - describing a trip of a lifetime, and how to do it yourself.
Pedal To The Sea    by Gilbert Newbury
Price: $5.99 USD. 155690 words. Published on September 22, 2012. .

Pedal To The Sea is the true story of a family with young children on a remarkable 4-month,4,685 mile, coast-to-coast bicycle trip across America pedaling a custom-made Quad, a "tandem" bicycle for two - and two more. Pedal To The Sea vividly portrays the risks, joys, struggles and accidents of fate and faith that inevitably rise to the surface of such a journey.
Travel is my Passion    by Jim Hendrickson
Price: $2.99 USD. 34530 words. Published on February 22, 2013. .

Travel is my Passion begins with a short essay on my philosophy of world travel that can be summed up in four short sentences: Be a dreamer. Be open-minded. Be confident. Be prepared. The book continues with 29 chapters of stories about my extensive travels in 34 countries in 6 regions of the world. The book ends with a description of one of my four journeys around the world.
Vagabond on a Bicycle    by Jim Hendrickson
Price: $2.99 USD. 54670 words. Published on March 18, 2013. .

Vagabond on a Bicycle comprises 16 articles describing my bicycle trips in/on Route 66, the Santa Fe Trail, the Natchez Trace, the Deep South of the United States, New England, Montana to Alaska, Maritime Canada, Washington state to Israel, Northern Europe, Eastern Hungary, South Africa, New Zealand, Tonga, the Cook Islands, and Central Chile.
Shalom, Israel!    by Jim Hendrickson
Price: $2.99 USD. 62320 words. Published on April 24, 2013. .

Shalom, Israel! is a narrative of my 5½-month bicycle journey from Bellingham, Washington state to Israel aboard a custom-made, long-wheeled-based recumbent. In this book you’ll learn about the many adventures and misadventures I experienced on this 7,000-mile trip through eleven U.S. states and eight countries. I’ve also included a list of equipment that I took on the journey.