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How much should you spend on Travel?
This is one of the most important questions that we ask ourselves every single chance we can: How much should you spend on Travel? I was doing the December 2015 budget a few days ago, and I got the idea to look at not just how much we spend per month on different things, but also how much we spend on travel as a percentage of income. The answer was pretty illuminating, actually. You get to see that the biggest expenses are essentially out of your hands, and that you don’t always need to sweat the small stuff. I’ll be posting these every month this year after I do the…
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What to Do in Sarasota Florida
We discuss what to do and where to go in Sarasota in an effort to help our wedding guests & potential tourists to plan their travels within the area. Read on for more.
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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…
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How We Met: The Courtship
If you’re curious about how we met, it all began on a boring Wednesday afternoon in the middle of October 2013, I received a blinking instant communicator message on my work computer from someone named Rubilyn. (Yes, we work together at the same company) The message stated: “Hey, I have a vacation planned from Boxing Day to New Year’s in New York City. Are you going to be in the office during that time? Just checking so we aren’t out at the same time.” And that, my friends, is how we met and began the courtship of Ruby by a guy named Peter Our first date was at St. John’s…
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Why Travel To Florida?
First up in our Why Travel To series: our state, Florida! The Why Travel To series aims to give you a glimpse of why you should want to go to a destination. I’ve been living in Florida for the past 18 years of my life, and Ruby has been living here for a little over two years. The below tips are collective experiences we’ve had while traveling along the Panhandle, the North, The South, and Central Florida. It is a lovely place to visit, with many things to do. We’re also going to feature some of the places we’ve been throughout Florida on our blog, so stay tuned! Fun Fact:…
