The thinking man's way to travel cheaply......

[Duck Rodgers]

Thought this was a pretty cool way of using the political structure of the world to your advantage:

https://world.time.com/2014/01/23/v...ols-propels-those-with-connections/?hpt=hp_t3

Vinny is in the middle of a whirlwind trip. He began in Caracas ten days ago, has already passed through New York, Chicago, Kansas City, Dallas, Indianapolis and Los Angeles and is about to board a flight from Miami to Milan and onto Madrid. The 28-year-old personal trainer will be there for around 36 hours before continuing his journey on to London, Johannesburg, Doha, Tokyo, Dallas, Lima and finally Caracas again in just over a week’s time. The entire trip — all 16 flights — cost him just $600.

The reason: currency controls, brought in by Hugo Chávez in 2003, which severely limit the amount of foreign currency that Venezuelans are legally able to purchase from the government. Under the official exchange rate, one dollar buys 6.3 Bolívares, the local currency here named for Latin American independence hero Simón Bolívar. But the controls have created a black market on which greenbacks sell for more than 10 times as much. This week, authorities brought in a second exchange rate (essentially, a devaluation of just over 40 percent, though the government calls use of the d-word “enemy spin”) in an attempt to curb economic distortions. But economists are doubtful that the move will satiate the high demand for dollars.

 

[Stoked]

Got to hand it to the guy. Got to see the world (even if it is so fast it all blurs together) in a cheap way that looks like it is going to make him some money.

 

[Duck Rodgers]

Got to hand it to the guy. Got to see the world (even if it is so fast it all blurs together) in a cheap way that looks like it is going to make him some money.

Yeah, who knows why he chose to travel in that condensed timeframe way. It's his version of The Amazing Race. All that plane time would suck a lot of joy out of it for me. But since he is a personal trainer and his name is Vinny, a good guess is he wanted to go a bunch of places and take pictures of himself flexing out in front of a bunch of different backdrops to make his Facebook/Instagram friends jealous or something.