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The travel industry is here to help you; feel free to ignore it (with Seth Kugel)

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The Challenge of Travel Writing in a Digital Age

I think embracing that foolishness, that awkwardness, that adolescence out of placeness is a key corner to turn as a traveler. I mean, you have to be so humble and just realize that anything you do could offend someone. You can't literally say, just go be a fool, just find a local host family. And luckily when I did the Frugal Traveler column, which was a first person column, I did have a lot of independence in what I did once I got to a place. That said, you still need to fill it with tips on, here's a restaurant,. Here's what this is, what this museum is like.

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