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Cheap Travel Around the World

How to travel around the world for $1,000 or less

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Posted on 5/23/2010 7:25 EST
Filed in: Airfare, Cheap Travel, Cheap Vacations, Flights, Travel, Vacations

For an outside-the-box travel guide, read this article from The Nashua Telegraph. You'll find some truly penny-pinching ideas that should get you all the way around the world. But can you do it in 80 days?

"One hundred twenty-six years ago, Thomas Stevens left California and became the first man known to travel across the U.S. on a bicycle.

Upon reaching this goal, he decided he wanted to be the first man to ride a bike across the world, and then fulfilled that dream, too, ultimately racking up close to 14,000 miles.

While an around-the-world bike trip isn't the first thing that comes to mind for many, we've all imagined what it would be like to abandon the expectations and daily duties we have in our normal lives and hitch a ride on a boat across the Atlantic or travel around the world with nothing but a backpack and what's in our pockets..."

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