Yakezie Carnival #11: The Ultimate Travel Edition
Who doesn’t like travelling?
Most of Yakezie members are travel enthusiasts. Many put travel as part of their life plan and diligently set aside money to budget for travel. Some like Foreigner’s Finance, Frugal Zeitgeist and Simple in France travel overseas to start a living. I personally find travel as the answer to some of life’s challenges.
It’s the variety and randomness aspect of travel refreshes you from daily grinds. The new scene makes you feel brand new. And if you’re lucky, you make friends with the locals, expand your horizon and hopefully score a free accommodation on your next visit.
I will kick off this carnival by challenging whether travelling is worth your money.
Ultimate Money Blog also wonders whether vacation is a good use of money
Early Retirement Extreme argues that Travel is Not Worth It
Money Help For Christians points out how Can You Afford A Family Vacation?
Fiscal Fizzle wonders Should You Take Vacations in a Bad Economy?
And Money Reasons has a definite answer for that: Forget the Economy, I’m Going to Disneyland
Budgeting in the Fun Stuff talks about Expensive Dreams
Eventual Millionaire tells you all about What Tim Ferriss Doesn’t Know About Life Style Design
Learn Save Invest believes that financially peaceful people keep their recreation simple
Once you decide that your travel plan is worth it, here’s how to stretch your dollar further.
Engineer Your Finances dishes out the Travel Industry’s Biggest Secret: How to Slash Your Bill in HALF
Foreigner’s Finances writes about Travel With a Water Bottle to Save Hundreds Every Year
Tom @ Canadian Finance Blog writes the ultimate 10 Ways To Save Money On Your Vacation
The Debt Hawk shows you how to get your vacation faster by choosing the Top 5 Cash Back Credit Cards
Young and Thrifty also compares no fee travel reward credit cards
Couple Money wants to show you how to bid successfully on Priceline
Free From Broke argues that Booking A Hotel Through An Online Travel Site May Not Be Worth It
20s Money shows you How to Travel the World Without Quitting Your Job
Don’t want to end up being the ugly and unsophisticated tourists? Here’s some great articles on how to travel with style.
Simple Life in France shows you how to Travel without looking like a tourist
MoneyCrush shares How I Learned the Secrets of Traveling Light (& Saving Money in the Process)
More Style Than Cash shows you how to travel with your best friend: Dog Travel Bag or Dog Emergency Kit
My Money Minute lists The 16 Dos and Don’ts of Weekend Travel
I love reading travel stories. Sometimes I wish I had a random and weird experience during my trip just so I can share it. Here’s some of the Yakezie members’ travel tales.
Narrow Bridge Adventures travels to Omaha for the Woodstock for investors
Bucksome Boomer’s Journey to Retirement was Sailing the High Seas last week.
Frugal Zeitgeist shows you how to have A Budget Egypt Vacation
Cool to be Frugal knows how to Live in a Foreign Country for 2-3 Weeks For As Little As $300
Other interesting articles from Yakezie members:
Eliminate the Muda writes about Are you married to a gambler?
Clarifinancial wonders If Death is Simple, Why is Life Insurance Complicated?
My Journey to Millions questions if Is Home Remodeling Worth the Investment?
Have a great week, everyone!
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Very clever theme, especially since someday I want to travel more and more!
I wish I travelled more in the line of work that I do, I'd love to travel to other countries!
Thanks for doing such a wonderful job Great presentation!!!
Thanks for the link, great roundup
I love travel! It's definitely something I'll do more of in the future for sure. Right now, it's just 3 weeks on average overseas for me.
Cheers, Sam
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BTW, are you on Twitter?
Thanks for dropping by, Sam.
Yes, @151daysoff . I think we follow each other already.
Thanks for putting together the carnival and I love the theme as well–especially since travel can be controversial in the PF community.
I've also written on my 5 year travel plan… so thanks for all these great travel links. I'm off to check them out.
I love the list on your travel plan! I want to go to all of them, well, all except Australia
I think these days you can fly here for USD 900. It's a big country so flying between cities will take a considerable chunk of your budget, although now you can fly for AUD 50 for a typical 1-hour trip.
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Great job hosting, I love the idea of asking for submissions that fit a theme!
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Thanks for hosting and including my post. Now I want to take a trip! (Although that's pretty much a constant desire of mine…)
Great link roundup! Such a great idea. It's funny how everyone write about travel. Thanks for including my link!
Thanks so much for the link!
xoxo
Awesome carnival! Love the theme.
Thanks for the mention!
Your sentence second really made me think…we are a bunch of travel enthusiasts.
Chicken or the egg…
frugal b/c we travel or travel b/c we’re frugal?
FinEngr´s last blog ..Travel Industry’s Biggest Secret: How to Slash Your Bill in HALF
Hmmmm… interesting. I think most of us are "born" with desire to travel but not born to be frugal.
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What a great theme! Thanks for including me.
Great job on the carnival! I just joined Yakezie, hopefully i can be included in the next round!
Travel can be any of these things. For many it is theraputic and for others it is the only way to live. Good work on making sure that the financial implications come to the forefront of the idea. Many of our members invest on P2P lending sites and there are a lot of people going into debt to finance a vacation. While we believe you only live once, we don't think you should make it miserable by enjoying one week, and loathing the ensuing years that you have to pay that week off.
Thanks for the excellent carnival,
Timothy
Wealth Artisan Team Member http://WealthArtisan.com
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Thanks so much for a great job on the carnival. You rock!
Hmmm… the sailboat picture is missing the email? Wonder who took that?
Thanks.
Not sure, maybe someone who's been ripped off (haha, get it? – lame?).
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