Tim Leffel is an award-winning travel writer, editor, and author who has published multiple books on traveling well for less and living abroad. He is editor of Perceptive Travel, established in 2006, and the Cheapest Destinations Blog, established in 2003. He is frequently quoted in the media as an expert on value travel and international living and has appeared in Travel + Leisure, National Geographic Traveler, Outside, Men's Health, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Global Traveler, and more. He has lived in three countries and five U.S. states, now residing in Guanajuato, Mexico.