By Ed Perkins
From Tribune Content Agency
I get tired of stuff I read about how to “save money” on travel. “Saving” money means putting it into an IRA or a CD or a kids’ college fund. This year, you’re going to spend money on travel—lots of money, given the near-universal inflation. What you want to do is spend it most efficiently—to get the most bang for the buck. And that doesn’t mean squeezing a few dollars out of your airfare cost, along with a few days out of your vacation, by flying midweek. It means making some basic trade-offs on how and where you spend….