Now that we’ve been on the road for a full month, its time to take a look at how much full time travel is costing us. Neither of us have ever been away from home longer than a few weeks at a time, so crossing the one month mark is new territory. And there are […]
Category: Gap Year
Gap Year Spending Month 0 – $1,552.62
As Becky and I travel around the country (and possibly beyond) during our gap year adventure, I plan to track every dollar we spend and share that information here on Money Metagame. While we haven’t completed a full month on the road yet, I think it’s important to first take a look at the money […]
Gap Year Week 2: It Doesn’t Feel Real Yet
We’re currently sitting in Bakersfield, California after the second of many weeks to come on our Gap Year adventure. Despite quitting our respective jobs in order to road trip across the country for an entire year, I’m not sure that significant life change has sunk in yet. If you know anything about this area of […]
A Cabo San Lucas All Inclusive on Points, Miles, and $164
Before Becky and I head out on our Gap Year Road Trip Adventure, we’ll first be taking a trip to the beaches of Cabo San Lucas in Mexico! We had this trip planned before the gap year idea came into being and it will make for a nice precursor to hitting the road full time, […]
Let The Gap Year Begin!
As of January 24th, neither of us is employed! While this may seem troublesome to the average person, this has been our plan since the middle of last year when we decided to make a big transition into what we are calling a Gap Year. We’ll be utilizing our accumulated savings on the journey to […]
Gap Year Planning: Travel Hacking A Year Of Hotel Stays
In less than a month, we will be embarking on our Gap Year road trip that will take us across a majority of the USA. For the past couple of years, we’ve been able to cover the majority of our hotel stays using points earned from credit card signup bonuses. This worked great when we […]
Gap Year Planning: Preparing for the Final Paycheck
Our big adventure across the country begins in less than a month and there’s nothing that makes it more real than cutting off our main source of income. We’ve been down to a single paycheck ever since Becky left her job last year, but our high savings rate means we didn’t really feel the impact […]
Blogging Sabbatical Recap – FinCon, Running 50+ Miles, MoviePass, and More!
This is my first post in almost two months after I took an unplanned, unannounced sabbatical from blogging recently (did anyone notice?). There was no specific reason for the break, but now I’m back! Despite the blog being quiet, our lives have been quite the opposite. In the past two months, we attended FinCon, I […]
Gap Year Planning: Many Mediocre Health Insurance Options
If you haven’t heard, Becky and I are planning to quit our jobs and travel around the country (and maybe beyond) for a year or so starting early next year! We’re currently calling this adventure a “Gap Year” and planning is well under way. In my last post, I covered our plans for the timing […]
Gap Year Planning: Pre-Trip Logistics – Part 1
Just over a month ago, I wrote about how Becky and I were considering a radical change to our current lifestyle. The potential plan includes quitting our jobs, selling most of our possessions, and hitting the road in what we are currently referring to as our “Gap Year”. Fast forward to now and we’re more […]