Traveling Cheap and Light Around the Globe: a Guide for Gay and Gay-friendly Adventurers In the beginning, my first trip to England, to study Shakespeare in Stratford on Avon, England, I flew an Icelandair prop-jet via Reykjavik (where the plane had to be repaired and we got a free tour during the layover); then on to London with a hand-written ticket from an agency that searched their travel-agent-only computer to find a cheap flight. That was generations ago, pre-Internet and pre-Airbus 380. A few things have changed and the process has gotten a lot more fun—and complicated. Deciding Where to Go This starts with the huge wall map of the world  that sprawls above my desk. I look at it often to get a sense of space, distance and location. No place is out of reach. Even in these risky times with political and religious warfare in central Asia and Western Africa, I recently met two separate women who