Posted by Christopher Wink on Nov 19, 2008 in
Travel Tips 
Stuffing my face with a delicious Belgian waffle in Brussels.
So you’re backpacking to train-traveling for a couple weeks, a month or lots longer.
You end up with the same problem. Trying to eat healthy while keeping costs down.
I spent almost half a grand on eating during a month of backpacking - less than my train-travel and housing costs - which I think is pretty darn good, considering I had to eat every local delicacy we could find.
Let me throw some suggestions at you.
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Tags: Budget, currency, Food, Jetsetting
Posted by Christopher Wink on Nov 16, 2008 in
Costs 
Sean and I each went to Europe with $4,200. Between the two of us we returned with more than half of our total - what’s left of mine is seen in my online bank statement seen above.
For both of us, that was very nearly everything cent we had in savings. We each returned to find jobs and homes and begin payment on student loans (Sean’s thoughts, too). Though a lot of ground needs to be made to begin our lives, fortunately we returned with some savings.
How’d we do it? After some budget crunching abroad and some more on my own, I have figured out my expenses. Get a rough sense of the costs of a backpacking trip like ours, using the totals from my $4,200.
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Tags: Budget, currency, money
Posted by Christopher Wink on Nov 8, 2008 in
Education 
I am dodgy. I can accept it. So, I didn't go into this London bar on Brick Lane Oct. 3, 2008.
I am hot tempered.
I cringe over costs. Accept them. You are in an unfamiliar place. You will be short 30 pence for a bus ride home in London and get stuck putting 3 pounds on your Oyster card, with an additional $3 charge for using your credit card abroad.
What do you want out of your travel? How do you want to represent yourself and your country. Traveling will make you learn plenty about yourself, which is good because it is rarely as important as when you’re seeing the world.
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Tags: Budget, couchsurfing, currency, Jetsetting
Posted by Sean Blanda on Nov 4, 2008 in
Travel Tips 
The pain of figuring out the budget
Today, Chris and I bit the bullet, dumped out the receipts and figured out who owes who what. After all, it is a cold Monday night. Up until now, we had alternated who took cash out of ATMs and tried to split big purchases such as hostels or train tickets.
Bad idea.
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Tags: Budget, currency, money
