One Hill of an Adventure
Making travel financially realistic. A practical guide for getting from where you are right now to where you want to go.
Most travel content assumes you're already ready to book a trip. This guide starts earlier, with your actual financial situation, and walks you through the whole picture.
We've met a lot of people who want to travel more but feel stuck. Not because they're irresponsible with money. Not because travel is actually out of reach. But because nobody ever laid out a clear path between their everyday financial life and the trip they keep putting off.
That's what this guide is for. We'll cover how to look honestly at where your money goes, how to build a dedicated travel fund without gutting your regular budget, how to use points and credit cards to dramatically cut costs, and how to actually spend less once you're on the road.
It builds on itself. By the end you should have a clear picture of what it would actually take for you to go somewhere.
Seven sections
Reframe how you think about travel and money before changing anything else.
Pull 60–90 days of real spending before you build a plan.
Make saving automatic and specific so it doesn't require willpower.
Not all debt is the same. Here's how to think through the math honestly.
How credit card points can cut the cost of flights and hotels by 50–100%.
Where it's easiest to overspend, and how to avoid it without ruining the trip.
A step-by-step path from "I want to travel more" to "I have a trip booked."