The Frugal Traveler
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The summer travel season is officially upon us which means millions of Americans will be hitting the roads and taking to the skies to enjoy their long awaited vacations.
Whether you want to hit the beach, blaze a trail off the beaten path or explore one of the major tourist destinations, there’s a smart way to do it. That’s where Seth Kugel, our latest guest, enters the picture.
With many credits under his belt, including the Frugal Traveler columnist for the New York Times, and author of Rediscovering Travel: A Guide for the Globally Curious, Seth is full of tips and suggestions to help you get the most out of your latest travel experience.
Where to go? Where not to go? Drive, train or fly? From Brazil and Prague to India and Italy, we circle the globe with Seth and provide you with useful tips to easily reach your destination, with a few bucks left in your pocket.
For the tight-belted tourist and the first-class flyer, the eager student and the comfort-seeking retiree, Seth Kugel is all about showing how we too can rediscover the joy of discovery.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Jill Schlesinger on this episode of Jill on Money, |
| 0:06.6 | we are getting ready for your summer vacation. |
| 0:09.7 | A lot of people think I'm just going to go relax, |
| 0:12.0 | but what you want is you want a trip that changes your life in some way. |
| 0:15.0 | It doesn't have to be a huge change. It doesn't have to be like a new career or anything like that. |
| 0:20.0 | But some way that, in a little, in a little little way it changes your life. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome to the Jill on Money podcast. |
| 0:26.2 | We are presented by Marcus by Goldman Sachs. |
| 0:29.6 | Well, it is summer travel season. |
| 0:32.0 | And so Mark and I were trying to figure out |
| 0:34.6 | who should be the guest of honor to help talk about that. |
| 0:38.1 | Mark says, I've got the guy. |
| 0:40.4 | Seth Kugel, his book is called Rediscovering Travel, a guide for the Globally Curious. |
| 0:46.7 | He is the New York Times columnist, he writes The Frugal Traveler, and he's going to help you make the most of your travels of your vacation. |
| 0:56.9 | And the thing I love about this is he doesn't want to do it with an unlimited budget, but he also |
| 1:02.0 | is very clear on how to focus on an experience. |
| 1:05.8 | Now you know we do so much fun stuff here at the show. |
| 1:09.3 | Well stay tuned at the end of our interview we've got a brand new feature that we're |
| 1:13.5 | rolling out and it is fun. So check it out. Stick around. End of the |
| 1:17.1 | interview, new feature. Here's our interview with Seth. |
| 1:21.6 | You're listening to Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger. |
| 1:25.0 | Let's start with a very important question that we begin every interview with. |
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