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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No kids, combined HHI of $72k, maxing out retirement, one car paid for in cash, rent is $1200k for a teeny apartment in a neighborhood we love, mid-20s----we do a 5-10 long weekends a year that usually coincide with fed holidays (cabin in Shenandoah during the winter where we hole up with board games and books in front of a cozy fireplace, NYC once a year, smaller towns like Harper's Ferry/Asheville/Gettysburg, more remote parts of OBX), aren't foodies so are content with cooking at our Airbnb 75% of our trip, mostly stay on the east coast where the most we'll spend on a long weekend is $300-$500 total.  Travel is important to us---not only as a break to 'recharge' from daily life, but we value experiencing other cultures and ways of life.  On a relationship note, we travel really well together and have done 6 hour road trips to see family for Thanksgiving/Christmas since we started dating, and our relationship really benefits from the time spent in the car together---that's where a lot of our major life decisions have been made after lots of discussion---something about the open road can bring clarity to our lives at home very easily.

We did one big int'l trip in the last year---a $7k 18 day trip to Australia that I meticulously budgeted for (I checked flight prices every night before bed and every morning for like two months before I bought our tickets)---and we splurged on that trip because it was our honeymoon---I.E. I spent maybe $2k more on whole-house rentals versus just a room/keeping our flights to two legs with short layovers, a few nice dinners out, etc.  But I'm a research nerd who will read a gazillion articles/reviews of everything/Google map everything before we travel, so we get a lot of so-called bang for our buck.

I'm in the planning stages of our next big trip, which is hopefully next fall.   It's important to us to get a lot of our always-wanted-to-go-there travel done in the next few years before we have kids.  [/quote]

Do you mind sharing details of your Australia trip? I can start a new thread on Travel. I'm dying to go there and NZ!!  :D[/quote]

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