One Hill of an Adventure
About Us
Colby & Hayden Hill
We're not travel experts. We're just two people who decided early on that travel was going to be a priority, no matter what our budget looked like.
We started the way most people do, convinced we couldn't actually afford it. We were working part time for minimum wage, watching every dollar, and booking the cheapest trips we could. Travel felt like something other people did. But we found ways to do it anyway, and we made a lot of tradeoffs to get there.
Over time, we got better at it. We learned how to use credit card points, find quieter alternatives to overcrowded spots, and figure out where it actually makes sense to spend more versus where you're just paying for the name. We picked up new ways to save and, eventually, new ways to earn from the road itself.
Our trips look different now than they did ten years ago. Not every night is a budget motel, and not every meal is groceries from a gas station. Our guides reflect those changes too. They're not always the cheapest way to do a trip, but the thinking behind them is the same as it's always been. We share what we actually paid and try to help you figure out where your money is worth spending and where it isn't. But the mindset has never changed: spend less on the things that don't matter so you can spend more on the things that do.
We've been to 41 states and 11 countries across the past decade, and we're still figuring it out as we go. What we've learned, we share here, with real costs, honest takes, and no fluff.
We're also a little obsessed with the spots that take more effort to reach. The hike that isn't on anyone's list. The viewpoint a mile past where most people turn around. The quieter town right next to the famous one. Those tend to be the trips we talk about longest, and finding them is half the reason we keep going.
States Explored
Countries Visited
Years Traveling Together
Our Story
We've been together ten years, and travel has been a priority from the start. We were in school when we started dating, and every break became an opportunity to go somewhere. We spent a lot of those early years figuring out how to make it work on next to nothing, and we'd do it all over again.
It started with weekend trips to the Blue Ridge Mountains, expanded to the broader East Coast, and kept growing from there. In 2019 we spent a summer in Seattle. In 2020 we traded having an address for three months on the road in a Honda Accord: 17 states, no real agenda, just camping, hiking, and taking it as it came. In 2021 we took our first international trip to Iceland, which shifted something in the way we thought about travel. Canada, a few more cross country stretches, and a lot of miles in between have followed since.
Eventually we landed in Salt Lake City, drawn by the mountains, and it felt like the right home base. We've spend a lot of time the past few years exploring Utah itself - hiking, skiing, and finding new corners of a state that keeps surprising us. We still get out further when we can. We're grateful for where we've ended up, the memories we've made along the way, and the fact that we still get to keep going.
A note from us
We built this site because the resources we wished existed when we were starting out weren't really there. The ones that began with your actual financial situation and walked you all the way through. So we're building them.
Everything on this site is free to read. We earn small commissions when you apply for credit cards or book through our links, at no cost to you, and we charge for our time when you want 1:1 help. That's the model. No fluff, no hidden agenda.
Now let's find you a trip worth going on.