A TripAdvisorâ„¢ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Angel Falls and Canaima National Park, Venezuela by TravelPod blogger Stevefn titled “How to blow your travel budget.”. TravelPod is a company of TripAdvisorâ„¢. Stevefn’s travel blog entry: “I think I have said a few times recently that I spend much more money now than I did at the start of my trip. Mainly because of laziness and convenience, but also because I don’t plan things well enough or take too many decisions on the spot. I don’t know how many times I have changed my so-called travel plans, and I am also amazed at how quickly I sometimes change them. Having this flexibility is awesome when out backpacking (if you can call it backpacking anymore), but it is also bound to cost you more. I am also kind of surprised at how often I take the easy way out (and so are my brother after just one month on the road with me). I have never liked spending too much time checking price differences between different shops and agencies on for example a tour or a flight. So I often sign up on the first deal I get presented (not always a smart move). Some of my latest blunders include a close to US 0 taxi ride in Quito (how that’s even possible I don’t know) as well as a US 0 (US 0 of them was taxes we were told about later) flight from Cartagena to Caracas. US 0, that’s more than my flight from Seattle to Guatemala City. If you look on a map, the distance between Cartagena and Caracas isn’t really that long. In fact it’s …