CLINIC: Budget World Travel 3/25/09 7pm REI FREE

Somewhere between hostels and luxury hotels is the sweet spot of travel. REI adventurer James Hetland shares tips on how to have a better experience while spending less wherever in the world you?re headed. Learn how to save money while staying in nice places, eating great food, and never getting ripped off.

James will share tips that are applicable to travel anywhere in the world: plane tickets, exchange rates, lodging, food, transportation, and more. In the last six years, James has:

Lived in Germany for 4 months.
Traveled in Venezuela for 3 weeks.
Spent over a week each in Japan, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, France, England, Italy, Greece, and Mexico.
Spent smaller amounts of time in Latvia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxemburg, Austria.
He and his wife will be leaving for a month in Chile and Argentina a week after this presentation.