As both aspiring minimalists and slow travelers, we like to control our spending since we have limited space on what we can carry and are traveling quite extensively. We have developed a process to help us decide what to spend money on and how much money we feel comfortable spending.
Accommodation usually represents the largest expense while traveling for extended period of time. Did you know you can reduce significantly this expense by using Airbnb? In this post we explain how we use Airbnb to find amazing rentals, why and how we introduce ourselves to the host, our best tips to get us the best stays at the best price through the Airbnb platform and more…
Credit card travel rewards AKA travel hacking is a large part of our strategy to travel the world affordably as full-time travelers for the past 6 years. Almost all of our transcontinental flights are paid for by travel rewards points, saving thousands of dollars per year. We even occasionally treat ourselves to a nice 5 star hotel paid for by credit card hotel rewards. In this detailed introduction to credit card travel rewards, we will explain what they are, how you can leverage them and the credit cards we recommend to get started.
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This post is part of a “behind the scenes” series where we will share with our readers the tools, techniques, systems and processes that have helped us get to how we are living today.
For the second post of this series, I will be sharing how we track our expenses and developed a cost of living index that we use to share our travel expenses via our destinations reports or weekend guide articles.