Image by katerha via Flickr Luck rarely favors you. It seems content instead to deny your every wish, insists on shattering your plans. Any hope of traveling therefore is met with the mildest of enthusiasm. Affording the destinations beyond your door seems impossible. The cost is too great; the demands are too high. You’re doomed to stay within the span of your backyard, unable to seek the borders you study so often. This is the assumption of the novice traveler -- with all thoughts offered to expenses and all dreams broken. Creating the perfect vacation doesn’t have to empty bank … [Read more...]