2016 Travels and Experiences on A Budget

2016 just started, but would you believe our 2016 calendar is nearly filled up? On this post, we share our 2016 Travels and Experiences on a Budget. Who says you have to live like a backpacker in order to travel more? And who says you have to leave your hometown just to explore and experience more? We try to break the misconception that you’ll have to travel outside your hometown to experience new things, and we try to prove that yes, there are amazing things right at your own backyard! Through the use of credit card points, miles, and various deals, we show you how to travel luxuriously and have extraordinary experiences without breaking the bank. This also ties to our philosophy that your travel budget can be higher than normal and also show the Real Cost of Travel.

Every destination we go to will have links that will show you how we managed to go there on points & miles, the hotels we stayed in, and how much we roughly spent throughout our goal of 2016 travels on a budget.

Note: Our travel budget for the whole of 2016 is $3,500 per person, potentially less. This is a megapost filled with Excel tables – and will be updated a lot as the year progresses.

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March

• Mar 6, Sunday:  Big River Show at the Alhambra Jacksonville
  • $26 – Dinner & a Show (deal from www.localflavor.com)

• Mar 12, Saturday: Two Hour Kayaking at Guana River.
  • Used a Groupon ($36 paid out in cash)
• Mar 24-28, Thursday – Monday:  Dallas, Texas

April

• April 2, Saturday: Hang Glide Fernandina Beach (Discovery Flight).
  • Used a Groupon ($87 paid in cash)
• April 9, Saturday: Disney Frozen on Ice
  • $30 – Ticket via TicketMaster (used a coupon)
  • $10 – Expected parking fee
• April 15-18, Friday – Monday: Memphis, Tennessee
• April 22-24, Friday – Sunday: Gainesville, Florida

May

• May 8, Sunday: Blithe Spirit at Alhambra Jacksonville
  • $26 – Dinner & a Show (deal from www.localflavor.com)

• May 21 – 24, Saturday – Tuesday: Miami, Florida
• May 27, Friday: Rehearsal Dinner
• May 28, Saturday: We’re getting married! 
• May 29, Sunday: Cape Coral/Naples

June

• June 4-5, Saturday – Sunday: Copa America Orlando, Florida
• June 19- July 3: Euros 2016

July 

• July 17, Sunday: Disney Fairytale Surprise at Alhambra Jacksonville
  • $26 – Dinner & a Show (deal from www.localflavor.com)

August

• August 12-15, Friday – Monday: Richmond, Virginia

If you’ve noticed, there’s no plans yet for certain months (ie they seem so barren). Over the course of 2016, we’ll keep updating this post as the list goes longer and longer. Of course, we’ll also update this post with cost  breakdowns of all our travels, so you too can replicate it! This also goes to show that there are some weekends that we’re not doing anything. Like any other person, sometimes we just want to stay at home and do nothing: wake up late, watch TV, read, and basically not really be productive. That is our way of recharging from all these experiences, but we might also be in the background, preparing new articles for you to enjoy and at the same time researching where else to go (or reading up on blogs and books that will enrich our life).

Here’s to more travels & experiences that we’ll experience this year (and the next, and the next) – life is not about stuff, it’s about everyday experiences!