Twenty-SomethingTravel

The Small Things: 9 Little Ways to Sock Away Travel Money

Spending Diet update! You can track how my own savings are progressing here. In last month’s money update I wrote about major life changes you could make to save money. While incredibly effective, I know those aren’t always the easiest things to implement, so today I wanted to go in the opposite direction and round up [...]

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Notes from the Homefront: How much is Too Much (Planning)? Plus! My Itinerary

So I’ve been planning to take this round-the-world trip since last June, but it only occurred to me around January that I should probably start PLANNING this round-the-world trip.  I was then faced with a decision: how much of this trip needs to be planned out? And how? Obviously I will need to plan ahead of [...]

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The Biggest Money Sucks for Twenty-Somethings

Spending Diet update! You can track how my own savings are progressing here. The most frustrating thing about trying to save massive amounts of money is the unavoidable fact that you have to spend money to live.  It would be so much easier to sock away money from my not-terrible job if I didn’t have to [...]

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Notes from the Home Front: On Dealing with Doubters

I was at this claustrophobic little bar near Farragut West a couple of months ago. A rather portly young man was trying to chat me up in the typical DC way (where are you from, which branch of the government do you work for, etc. etc.).  All quite dull until he asked me what [...]

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Planning to go Backpacking: Where to Start?

If you are reading this, than chances are you are either related to me (hi mom!) or you want to incorporate more travel into your life.  That can be a really daunting thing, especially if you haven’t done a lot of travel before. Whether you are planning a short trip, long trip, RTW or a [...]

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