Cheap Travel

In these times when the most common refrain is - "hang on to your job...at least you still have one", a holiday (irrespective of the distance one has to travel to) has gone down shockingly (well this might be an exaggeration!) in our list of priorities.

So what is the way out? Cause in the job(s) (that we still have!) one still needs a break...I have been researching on ways to travel cheap...few options-
* Frugal Travel - The benefits of Internet research have long been known...this still remains the best way to identify the best bargains and actually build your whole itinerary
* Freeloading Travel - We all have relatives, friends in plenty all over the world...why not reconnect and travel to places where they are...oh yes airfares and sundry expenses will still need to taken care of but you get one big chunk of holiday expenses - acco, out of the way and your budget sheet...and you are always there to return the favor
* Home Exchange - a la The Holiday...this movie introduced (at least me!) to the option of Home Exchange...and when I looked up the internet there are websites dedicated to it...Haven't seen much evidence of it in India (I am not too frequent a visitor on Craiglist, so not sure if that has such an option)...

However the bottom line is that all the above and many more that you can tell me of, need moolah!
So if you don't want to spend money and don't have the time either (you need to work extra hard remember??) but are bitten by the wanderlust bug, then armchair travel is the BEST option for you...

This is exactly what I have been up to today...There is just so much material on the internet (that is the easiest to access) that you can be transported to whereever you want to go... travelogues (those are a little hard to find in my experience - at least off bookshelves in India)...And most people seem to be writing only about India...and even if there are about other countries, in India surprisingly you only get travelogues about India...