One Year In, Five Lessons Learned

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'The new year has already brought about significant changes to our world, including the way some of us travel. It also commemorates, less significantly, the one-year anniversary of my taking over the Frugal Traveler column. (No applause, please.) The old cliché “time flies” rings true: It really does seem like yesterday that I wrote my first column from Las Vegas. I’ve also spent entirely too much time actually flying this past year. But at least all that airtime has yielded lessons — some more painful than others. Here are five of them, picked up during my travels through 10 countries and a dozen states in 2016.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/travel/budget-travel-frugal-traveler-top-tips-2017.html?