On a few occasions in the past, we’ve mentioned the work of travel writer Tim Leffel. Leffel’s Web site Perceptive Travel is a must-read for us here at gadling and, come to think of it, I realize we ought to link there more often. But anyway, he is also well known for his budget-minded books like The World’s Cheapest Destinations and, more recently, Make Your Travel Dollars Worth a Fortune. In this interview over at travel-activist site Planeta, Leffel holds forth on the travel writing thing, traveling on a budget in general, and on “contrarian travel” a nice term that means travel outside of the mainstream. That is certainly an appealing topic, anyway, to a majority of gadling readers.
It’s an informative look at the world of budget travel and offers some insight into how one can best use the Web to come up with creative and cheap trip ideas.