The last post (ta-dum) on my former blog, http://www.yourtravelwriter.blogspot.com, was a guest contribution from a Toronto friend who took a budget holiday to New York City last fall. She went one way by overnight bus, and stayed in a room in an apartment she found through http://www.airbnb.com., returning to Toronto by plane.
Any type of budget vacation in New York is quite an accomplishment, since the city is very costly. At the time I posted the story she did not have dollar figures, but has since supplied them. The bus cost about $60 U.S., as did each night at the air bnb place in Lower Manhattan. This is a real achievement, in my book, and she didn't stay at a hostel.
I'm working on getting a new computer where, I hope, I will be able to meld this blog with the previous one.
On a more sombre note, a friend in New York told me about a travel warning that has been issued by the Government of Canada for a number of countries in the Caribbean and Latin America. It comes in the wake of the murder of two tourists, one from Canada, in Belize. Apparently crimes of many types including robbery, sexual assault and extortion are a big problem in places such as the Bahamas, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Surinam, Belize, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago.
You can read the complete story on these warnings at http://www.newsamericasnow.com. In some parts of some of these countries, travellers are warned against walking alone, especially after dark. Western governments do tend to err on the side of caution with these warnings, but it's good to be aware. Unfortunately, crime against travellers seems to be on the rise in many parts of the world.
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