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Big Travel, Small Budget: How to Travel More, Spend Less, and See the World by [Ryan Shauers, Sean Ogle]

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Learn How to Travel Better while Traveling on a Budget

To experience the freedom of long-term travel you need to either have a lot of money in your bank account or you have to cut corners and travel uncomfortably to stick to a budget.

The Real Struggle is That Travel is Just Too Expensive

You know you’d love to travel more, but the typical budget travel advice says you should sleep on the couches of strangers, pile into crowded “chicken” buses, or eat Top Ramen in your hostel dorm room.

There has to be a better way to travel cheap over the long-term and save money.

Ryan Shauers’ new book Big Travel, Small Budget helps you look at long-term travel in a whole new way. Based on the lessons learned in nearly three years of travel, this book will show you how to save money traveling and provide you with an inexpensive path to a rich life.

Introducing: Big Travel, Small Budget - How to Travel More, Spend Less, and See the World.

This book includes sections on:

How much money you really need to have on hand and how long it will last you (it probably isn't as much as you think).
How traveling as an overlander can be one of the most liberating (and affordable) ways to travel.
How to fly around the country or around the world for pennies on the dollar.
How you can move overseas, become a temporary expat, and live nearly rent free thanks to the new sharing economy.
How to find lodging for weeks or even months in some of the most desirable places around the world and not pay for it.
Your biggest obstacle to achieving your travel dreams (and how to overcome it).
And much, much more!

Each tactic outlined in this book when used by itself will provide you with a big win, but the synergistic effect when combined is where you can save not just hundreds, but many thousands of dollars. But more important than just saving money is the realization that you can finally make your travel dreams come true, even on a limited budget.

It’s time to stop putting off your travels for “someday” and some to-be-determined date in the future. Big Travel, Small Budget provides a simple framework that will change your perspective on how you can travel more affordably whether for a few weeks, a few months, or even longer.

Scroll to the top of the page and click the “buy now” button to turn your travel dreams into your reality!

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"This has been my favorite book this summer... It shows you don't have to conform to society's standards and can travel on a small budget." - Douglas, Amazon Customer

"Really great book, packed with the information that you need to get you outdoors and travelling longer (and farther) for less money than you'd think." - vagabondexpedition, Amazon Customer

"I've already traveled for weeks and even months at a time [...] so I honestly felt a bit skeptical that I could learn something new, but this book proved me wrong--and I'm glad it did." - N.G. Pile, Amazon Customer

About the Author

Ryan Shauers set out for a year long travel break at the beginning of 2013... A year of climbing, hiking, and exploring the great outdoors in the American West. Nearly five-years later he's still out there exploring the world. He's sat out rain storms on high mountain peaks, snorkeled in the Sea of Cortez, danced salsa in Medellin, broken down in the middle of nowhere Utah, and most recently driven from Seattle to Patagonia along the Pan-American Highway.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01462W37K
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 19, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2878 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 128 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #254,656 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #28 in Budget Travel
- #84 in Budget Travel Guides
- #833 in Happiness

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Ryan is a writer and traveler that will always call the Pacific Northwest home even though he hasn’t really lived there since 2007.

He left college with big dreams of adventure before he ended up moving across the country to Washington, DC, where he worked as a legislative assistant for a senior member of Congress. After his job came to an end, he launched himself into the world of vagabonding and hasn’t looked back.

At the end of 2012 he decided to take a year-long career break to road trip around the American West climbing and hiking. When he's not traveling or on the road, you can probably find him in Medellin, Colombia. Most recently he drove his old truck from Seattle to South America.

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Kate Oszko

Fabulous Travel Tips and Ideas

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 5, 2015

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This is a gem of a book. It's packed with real life experiences, practical advice on how to travel cheaply, and lots of links so you can follow up for yourself. Be aware - this is not for the luxury traveller, or the person who wants everything for nothing. Ryan's main message is to work out what you want, go for that, and mercilesslessly cut other things from your life. He has been able to travel on a tiny budget because his goal is to enjoy the beauty and wonders of the world, without being hung up on staying in five star hotels. The suggestions in his book will suit the traveller who is open to new ways of doing things and who is prepared to invest some effort in being organised. Even if that's not you, it's worth getting the book for other useful tips (eg frequent flyer points hacks) which anyone can benefit from. Oh yes, and it's a huge vicarious pleasure to be able to read about someone who has Done It - the descriptions of his travels are wonderful to read.

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Excellent reading.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 4, 2016

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Since I have retired three years and living in Costa Rica, I am ready for a new adventure. Amazingly, I had started working up notes and ideas when I discovered this book. Many of Ryan's ideas are sound and workable. With my retirement income I have crafted a strategy that makes it possible for me to save three things for a one month adventure away from Costa Rica: my airfare, a month rental of an apartment under$400 per month on airbnb in my city of interest, and one month of my expenses of my small rental house in Costa Rica. I am sure the plan will require fine tuning in the future. But now I am using many of Ryan's ideas for five weeks back in Portland, Oregon in October/November and Medellin, Colombia next May. Then thereafter, I can have a new adventure somewhere in Central and South America every six to seven months. Which suits my retirement goals just fine.

8 people found this helpful

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Great

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 8, 2021

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Very informative, great guide for mini vacations

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Kelly

Long on "look at me," short on "how you can do it too"

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 9, 2015

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Meh. That's all I can say about this book. It's not that it has NO good advice, just that really you could switch the title with any number of books in this genre and you'd never know they'd been moved. This book, in my opinion, is good to read if you have NO experience whatsoever with the full-time travel lifestyle. But it offers next to nothing if you've done it some and wish to do more. Even if you have no experience, the book is long on "look at me and how I figured it out" but awfully short on "HOW" you can do it too. I seem to recall I was nearly half way through before the author even mentioned actual advice. Up to that point it was mostly extolling the virtues of his lifestyle. If you're, say, 98% ready to make the leap into a life of travel, this book might give you the 2% nudge you need to finally do it. But if, like most people, you're only just exploring the idea, it's not going to answer nearly enough of the question you'd have to feel comfortable trying it.

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Beya.Luna

Great advice and information for long term traveling!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 2, 2020

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It wasn’t what I was looking for (my fault I didn’t realize prior) but I still took away some great nuggets from the book!
This book is obviously geared more to longer travels, than short ones (like I want) but such amazing advice, knowledge and references to further educate you to truly fulfill your hearts desire to travel for months at a time.
Whether you want to travel by land or plane, he has excellent information for you! 😉

3 people found this helpful

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Kindle Customer

Great ideas for making world travel possible

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 28, 2015

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Loved the practical and down to earth tips in this inspiring read. Granted, I'm as different as possible from the author, he is young, single, free to live life on his own terms, while I am female, 46, and in the midst of raising kids in the suburbs. So still, I can dream, can't I? And this book is full of tips and ideas to use... in my case it's that dreaded someday... but I can start making little changes now, and this book helped me see the possibilities. So a good thing. Worth it for a truly different perspective on life! Enjoyed.

7 people found this helpful

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Paulineh

Got my brain thinking of possibilities

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 29, 2015

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I got some good ideas from this book about traveling less expensively and even free. The chapters that I liked the most were house and pet sitting and flying free. Although I could not benefit from the Credit Card strategies I could on the Frequent Flyer points which I try to accumulate and use. I wish I could live away in a foreign land for a year but I know I would miss my family too much. I am going to look into the pet sitting though for a shorter period now Ryan has outlined his experience.

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Kevin Kruse

As Entertaining As It Is Packed With Valuable Advice

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 27, 2015

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Wow. While many will no doubt praise Ryan for providing so many tips that will save money and time, I'm blown away by the quality of the writing that just compels you to take action. Just read this single sentence from the book, "You could take the equivalent of 26 years worth of vacation time in one amazing gap year." BOOM. If you're 20-something years old and didn't just decide to quit your cube-dwelling job to hit the road, well check your pulse. It ain't ever going to get easier as you get older. And when you ARE ready, Ryan's book will tell you exactly how to travel the world on a lot less than you think.

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