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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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Where to Go in Dublin Ireland
Our trip to Ireland was more of a whim, from an airfare sale that was $380. It took a bit of time before we finalized our itinerary, but we did it and we had a blast! To read more of our Ireland adventure, click the below articles: Our First Impressions of Ireland (Peter’s account of our trip) A Guide to the Irish Visa for Filipinos (based on my experience on getting an Irish visa with a Philippine passport) Ireland’s Ancient East Itinerary (for those who want to follow where we went on our one week trip) Where to Go in Dublin Ireland Most people say Dublin is good for a…
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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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First Impressions of Alaska
Greetings! This is the first of our (hopefully) many blogs about Alaska. aptly titled our First Impressions of Alaska. Below are some links that may interest you if you want to read more about Alaska. Just a note: all these photos (including the wildlife ones) are taken by either me or Ruby. Some of them look like they are close encounters with wildlife, and trust us, they are close encounters. You can also read about how we fund and afford our travels, or about travel hacking, which was how we scored our airline tickets to Alaska in the first place. If you have any other questions, feel free to leave…
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Ireland Visa Application for Philippine Passports
Another day, another drama, another chapter in my love/hate relationship with my Philippine passport. What started out as a great deal from the US to Ireland is giving me more of a headache than I could have ever imagined, and made me wish in part that I wasn’t going to Ireland (or other visa countries) and used this time to travel somewhere else that’s visa free for my passport, like Ecuador or Peru. So let me recount to you my experience with the Ireland Visa Application. Ireland Visa Application for Philippine Passports To start off, I hold a green card to the United States, but I’m still a Philippine passport…
