I just wanted to do a quick little update dealing with easy money. Remember those CD’s Brian and I stashed away last August (If not, that’s OK. You can read up on it here… Read more.)? They took a whole 10 minutes to set up at the bank and have been accumulating cash ever since (we’re up to $270 for 10

Life is significantly less expensive back in Normal, Illinois. Sure, there are no big-city lights nearby to draw us in, but that’s a good thing when you’re still wanting to put some money in the bank. I feel as though I had finally gotten used to the sticker prices of New York making the move back to boring old Normal… Read more

…try to take over the world!… Read more
I can’t help but think about some of my favorite childhood cartoon characters, Pinky and the Brain, when I think about planning an RTW trip. The trip is a major feat in itself, but to take over the world?! I can’t even imagine the kind of planning that would go into such a task!

Riddle me this: Why do Brian & Brooke and a ’93 Jeep Grand Cherokee go together like oil and water?
Answer: This year has been plagued with car-tastrophy, starting with the “i feel like fish” car accident, continuing with the Sears oil change disaster, and reappearing with the most recent weekend from Hell!

Sure, giving up all conveniences and comforts of modern life can help you stash away loads of cash for your upcoming travels in a short amount of time, but just how much shoestringing is too much?
The answer would be a year’s worth.
A little over a year ago I was dead set on saving as much money as I… Read more

Recycling was originally one of our main money-saving categories for the trip, but the effect fizzled out when we cashed in our 9 months of saving cans in Normal, IL for about six bucks. The amount was so measley I didn’t even add it to the statistics page. I had decided to drop the recycling category from our savings focus,… Read more

It’s 8:30 in the morning. I log in, check my messages and email, and update my tickets. A few minutes pass. I am called on the phones because it becomes too busy for our downsized help center to handle. My first call of the day has me rolling my eyes as someone panics that their computer won’t start. I am… Read more

Put your hands up.
Now put one hand down.
You can now count the number of months until our Central America excursion, and the beginning of a long and interesting journey afterwards, on that one hand. Five months to go people. Five itty bitty, teeny tiny, count-it-on-one-hand months.
Wow.
I started planning this trip about 13 months ago, and there… Read more

It just may shock you.
Everyone knows I’ve been super fanatical about saving money for our RTW trip, and even though that specific plan might now be placed on the backburner, I’m not about to go and blow all the dough I’ve saved on some shopping spree. Oh, no, I still have travelling to do with that money. I am… Read more