Real world travel

The City of Lights is a glamorous destination. The people dress so effortlessly chic, the macarons and pastries look almost too fancy to eat

I get it - you need the ability to take off work to go explore and you have to pay for it somehow. But I also think people sit on these excu

Student loans are crippling and scary – I get it. After five years of college on my own dime, I’ve amassed more than the average amount...

Scoring a deal on airfare sounds like mission impossible. Coming in at one of the larger expenses for a trip, plane tickets can cause so...

It's that time of year where a beach vacay sounds like a slice of heaven. Usually when I travel, I try to squeeze in as many excursions...

Many people assume a plane ticket will be your most expensive part about traveling, but I find that accommodations eat up much more of my...

Whenever someone tells me they can’t afford to travel, I want to throw something at them (kidding – kind of). I get that a trip isn’t a...

Why is it that money is so easy to spend - ESPECIALLY while traveling!? The shops sell amazingly unique things, the little ice cream...

I’m not one for resolutions, but I am one for planning. The start of a new year is usually the kickoff to figuring out what travels and...

When I first started looking into ways to travel more, I was drawn into all the articles and posts sharing the art of credit card points....

I tend to stress that traveling can be as cheap or expensive as you make it. It’s a balancing act to plan out a trip that covers all the...

Travel isn't free. I'm not going to pretend I've cracked some secret code to make it happen. If you have discovered some magic way to...