Travel Hacking
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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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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…
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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 Saved $6,500 in Travel for 2016
A small summary of how much we saved on travel for 2016. This gives you a view of how much we have spent, and the destinations we've been to.
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Welcome – Start Here
If you are new to our website or just browsing around and want to know more about how this website works, here’s a sentence to sum it all up: Reaching Financial Independence & Experiencing the World You can read more about us on this link — but to sum it up: We both are working full-time jobs but want to become financially independent within the next 15 years. We are working because we are saving for our freedom from the cubicle, and also to fund other passions like travel. We are trying to invest what we earn in other things too – call it mini-businesses or side hustles, if you…
