How to choose your travel destination
If you guys don’t know by now, traveling is one key component in our relationship (one of our tenets is that we need to travel to learn and experience more, and life is a journey that we all should make use of). In this article (a few in a series), we try to take you in to our decision making process on traveling. One of the most recent questions we got was: How do you choose your travel destinations? Good question. There’s a few answers: Cheap airfare/mistake fares Mistake and cheap fares are our main driver for traveling somewhere. When we see something that is within our comfortable price range…
Combining A Love Of Travel And Property: The Best Places To Buy A Holiday Home
If you’re one of those people who would spend all year traveling if they could, why not consider investing in a holiday home? If you’re eager to explore while also protecting your financial future, laying down some roots in a different place may be a good move. If you’re thinking about buying a house or apartment abroad, here are some ideas to get you thinking. The UK The UK may not boast great weather, but it does have plenty to offer. The scenery is spectacular, there are sights aplenty, and there’s no language barrier. Importantly, the economy is relatively stable, and the housing market is buoyant in most places. If…
A Philippine Slovak Wedding in America
If you are a returning reader to our blog, you will know that the partnership behind this blog is getting married Saturday, May 28, in Sarasota, FL. If you’re a new reader and you didn’t know this, well, now you know as well! I proposed to Ruby in April 2014 in a historic Slovak castle, and it has taken 13 months to get to this point. I’m going to lay out just what type of planning went into this event, and the level of detail for weddings that I wasn’t aware even existed. We dubbed this a Philippine Slovak Wedding in America: a union of three (unlikely) countries and continents…
Two Weddings and an Alaska Honeymoon
This is a story of how we decided to have two weddings and an Alaska honeymoon. Two weeks ago, we received some bad news. Ruby’s mom in the Philippines was denied a visa to attend Ruby’s wedding in the United States. The embassy officer didn’t even check her documents, which included confirmations from the priest and the church, just asked her 3 brief questions and denied her visa. We were all shocked and disappointed, because when Ruby’s aunt was denied a visa just a few days after that, it meant that Ruby wouldn’t have anybody from her family at her own wedding, boohoo. We discussed our options and thought about…
The Difference between Vacation and Travel
I recently read an excellent online article from The Atlantic about the dire financial straits that over 50% of all Americans find themselves in and something in the article struck me. The writer mentioned that because of the various financial choices he had made regarding his and his family’s finances, he and his family hadn’t been able to take a vacation in over 10 years. They instead sacrificed their retirement money to send their two daughters to excellent universities (Standford and Emery). I’m not at all criticizing that particular decision, because wanting your kids to attend the best schools is a noble thought, but I was instead curious with how…
