When DW and I were younger we traveled on very low budgets to Europe and South America several times. Eventually, we got busy with our careers and were making lots of money.
When we traveled cheaply, we spent more time waiting on public transportation, talking to locals, eating what the natives ate, etc. I once sat next to a goat and chicken in a truck across the Andes. The goat was pretty entertaining. (but I am not proposing goat marriage  ). We carried our stuff in backpacks and slept in some pretty cheap rooms.
When we had money, we didn't have time to do those things. We were always in a hurry to see as much as we could before we had to go back to work. We bought our way through vacations rather than figure out how to do it cheap.
We kinda missed the cheap travel. Since retiring, our trips have been moving back toward our earlier travel. Travel isn't quite as spartan as when we were young, but neither are we.
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