Having recently wrapped up a year-long adventure that took us all over the country and beyond, I wanted to share some of our lodging stats from the last 12 months. We stayed in a variety of different places, but as you may have gleaned from the title, the majority were in spent in hotels. Thanks […]
Category: Travel Hacking
What’s In Our Wallet – August 2018 Edition
As you may already know, Becky and I have a lot of credit cards. We’ve acquired the majority of them over the past few years by taking advantage of large signup bonus offers with the goal of heavily subsidizing our travel expenses. With 70 new credit cards between us and several million points and miles […]
Purchasing Points For The First Time
Since starting our travel hacking adventures nearly 4 years ago, we never purchased points or miles to pad our balances. Credit card signup bonuses and other promotions have been more than sufficient to cover the entirety of our flight and hotel needs, but our needs have changed ever since we quit our jobs to travel […]
6 Perks of Living In Hotels
In early 2018, we both quit our jobs to travel around the US full time on our Gap Year Adventure. During this trip, we’ve stayed with friends and family as well as camped, but the majority of our nights have been spent in hotels. During the first 4 months of our journey, we’ve stayed 92 […]
Gap Year Spending Month 3 – $3,796.40
Three months into traveling on the road full time, we find ourselves leaving the amazing national parks of Utah and heading into the heart of Colorado to visit friends and family. It’s hard to believe we’ve technically been homeless and unemployed for over three months, but we’re still loving our decision to take a Gap […]
Gap Year Spending Month 1 – $3,743.55
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Our Credit Card Tracking Excel Sheet (Plus All Of Our Data!)
One of the most important factors in mastering credit card signup bonuses is staying organized. Keeping track of every new credit card that you open, the minimum spend details, and potential annual fees is crucial to ensure you’re not missing out on any points or paying unnecessary fees. Ever since we first got into the […]
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 […]