As we spend a year abroad, we will be looking to live frugally, while still fully experiencing the culture.

We’ll be gathering a list of tips and tricks throughout the year and posting them to our blog to help each of you leverage some of the “travel hacks” that we come upon, hopefully resulting in you being able to save a few hundred dollars (or more) on your next vacation!

Here are some of the current topics for travel tips and tricks. The links will become active to the blog posts as they are posted.

Strategies to save money on your next vacation:

1. Essential Travel Tools and Apps
2. How to Use Gift Cards to Save Hundreds on Flights and Hotels
3. 12 Ways to Get Cheap (or free) Lodging While Traveling

Travel tips that everyone should use:

1. Three Keys to Protecting Personal Information and Data While Traveling

Advanced tips for the long-term traveler:

1. 10 Long-Term Travel Gadgets We Couldn’t Live Without
2. Tax Optimization and Retirement Account Rollovers to Save You Thousands
3. Using House-Sitting to Stay Anywhere for FREE
4. Mailing Address while abroad, Visiting Visas, and other FAQs
5. Google’s Project Fi – Cheap Phone and Data Coverage Abroad