Ha! Now this is funny. As you surely know, I love to whine and complain about things I don’t like, including banal, regurgitative, one-upsman, and/or... »
Magazines
Best of National Geographic Traveler Jan/Feb 2010
When we’re not traveling, travel magazines can fill that void. Last year, we were on a Budget Travel kick but in the past few months, we feel it’s declined substantially in many ways. The good news is there are plenty other mags to take its place in our heart. And happily, National Geographic Traveler magazine... »
Worst of BT June
We are distressed to report there will be no Best of BT this month. Budget Travel, for a while among our favorite travel magazines, has gone downhill fast in its June issue. We don’t know if this is new editor Nina Willdorf’s doing or if it’s due to the all-too-common budget cuts in the... »
Girlfriend Getaway Garbage
One day, a (male) marketing whippersnapper came up with a genius idea: Create a catchy name for a group of women going away together and sell it as its own travel niche. Hmm, what do women like to do? Why, shopping of course! And spa treatments! And arts and crafts! Don’t get us wrong –... »
Best of BT May
This month’s Budget Travel had a lot of good stuff but our favorite article was Summer Camp for All by Jane Margolies. If you’re not a child, parent, or summer camp fan, you might not like it as much as we did. We’ve read articles like this in other publications but have always come... »
Best of BT April
Since April’s Budget Travel includes an article titled “How it Pays to Be Green,” you might have thought it would be included in this edition of the Best of BT. You’d be wrong and we’ll explain the reasons behind its exclusion in another post coming soon. An article we really enjoyed was “Over the River... »
Best of BT March
At The Mindful Tourist corporate headquarters (i.e., the cardboard box under the subway bridge), we receive several travel magazines. Our current favorite is Budget Travel. While the name seems to be a bit of a misnomer (we don’t think what they report on is especially frugal), the fact is their writers do a very... »
