Travel Budgets – Fire Round the World

Yosemite Itinerary and Final Spending

For our weekend trip to Yosemite we traveled over the long Labor Day weekend. Here’s what our schedule looked like: Friday Land at Sacramento Airport at 8:00pm Drive 2 hours to Tuttletown Recreation Area to camp Saturday Drive 2 hours to Yosemite Valley Day hikes around the valley Sunday Hike Half Dome Monday Short MorningContinue reading “Yosemite Itinerary and Final Spending”

Peru Final Spending for 2 weeks

We went wayyyyyyyy over budget for our Peru trip! Though it still doesn’t look too bad in comparison to what the trip is actually worth, I was pretty disappointed. Our breakdown is below, and here’s what went wrong for us: I did not anticipate how many places require payment in cash only. For some ofContinue reading “Peru Final Spending for 2 weeks”

Final Cancun Spending

Here it is! Our final expenses from our Cancun trip for the July 4th weekend. A few notes: 1. The swimsuit purchase added to our total when an unnamed individual forgot his for our water activity focused weekend 🙂 2. Food in Mexico is not all that much cheaper than food in the U.S. especiallyContinue reading “Final Cancun Spending”

Our Cancun budget: $0 spent

Our trip to Cancun is coming up in just a week and a half! Swimming with whale sharks has been on my bucket list and I’m so excited to check it off the list! While we’re there we’re also trying something else new: parasailing. This is something I’ve wanted to try for a while butContinue reading “Our Cancun budget: $0 spent”

Seattle Expenses

We loved our time away this weekend in Seattle! It was definitely a bit out of our norm as we tend to go on a really big trip each year where we’re gone for 2 weeks- and not have any really short weekend trips along the way other than camping. This was the first timeContinue reading “Seattle Expenses”

20 Days in Europe Budget

We’ve had many people ask us about our budget for Europe and how we were able to afford such a big trip (check out our itinerary here). When I was going through the planning process for us, one of the things I found most helpful was budgets posted by other travelers for how much theyContinue reading “20 Days in Europe Budget”

Couchsurfing.org

20 nights of travel across Europe. Total cost of lodging: $184.75. How’d we do it? Say hello to couchsurfing. Couchsurfing is literally one of the greatest inventions ever in my opinion .During our trip we spent a couple nights at local cheap hotels (some free with points, some I had to pay for), a coupleContinue reading “Couchsurfing.org”