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    Four Years On Our Path to Financial Freedom

    Trying to reach Financial Independence is hard, and I’m not going to try and lie. We seriously began considering Financial Independence seriously in 2014, back when my husband (then boyfriend) and I were talking about the freedom to travel and the freedom to do things that we wanted to do. The freedom to not go to work every day if we choose to. The freedom to choose the path that we want to take and work part time if we chose to. It is now 2018, and so I figured it will be good to share the accomplishments that we have done in our four years of trudging through the…

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    Dallas Texas on a budget

    Our first successful random airline roulette was in Dallas, Texas! What started out as just something to do during a long holiday ended up being a really fun adventure ahead! Here’s how we managed to do this trip on a budget: Flights Spirit, an ultra low cost carrier flying from MCO, Orlando International, had a sale going on and we got a round-trip ticket with checked bags for $117 per person! Read more about our experience here. Tip: It’s an okay airline, but you do get what you pay for (Read: don’t expect too much!)  Hotels We used AwardMapper to find hotels in the area where we can use points to…

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    Montego Bay Jamaica On A Budget

    Montego Bay, Jamaica: known for being a tourist paradise located less than an hour and 40 minutes from Miami International. I never thought I would get here, but I did, thanks to points, miles, and taking advantage of various promotions. We try to break down how we managed to go to this wonderful place without spending a ton of money, and we’ll show you exactly how we did it so you can replicate it! Sounds good? Great. Let’s get started.

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    An Orlando New Years Weekend Getaway

    As part of our motto here in A Journey We Love, we aim to travel more for well, less cost. We prioritize travel above most of our other expenses, and we also use creative ways to achieve that. Enter our travel hacking skills and our ability to find great deals! So, for this post, we are going to discuss and drill down the details of our… Orlando New Years Weekend Getaway The back story: I was looking at the calendar and panicked a bit when I (Ruby) realized January 1st is a Friday, so it’s a long weekend – and we didn’t get to make any plans! It was a…

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    2015 Travel on a Budget

    Dear Fellow Journeyers, 2015 is nearly over, so we wish to share all of our travels that we did for 2015, complete with detailed expenses per trip.  Our budget was $4,000 per person. We traveled to 15 destinations during the year: North America – 10 (Tampa, Orlando, New York, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Augusta, Emerald Coast, New York, Cocoa Beach & Mexico) Europe – 3 (Germany, Austria & Slovakia) Asia – 1 (Philippines) Caribbean – 1 (Turks & Caicos) The full cost of these travels was $8,791.94 per person for the whole year.  However, using travel hacking tools, exploiting mistake fares (while there were still mistake fares), and using big hotel…