What Money Meets Travel Is About
Money Meets Travel lives where financial clarity meets global curiosity. Warm, smart, slightly witty — always data-driven. This is for travelers who want freedom, not fluff: better money decisions, more intentional travel, and a life that actually feels like yours.
Here’s what you’ll find here:
- Building a Location-Independent Life: Designing a life with multiple home bases – bicoastal, global, or seasonal.
- Money: credit cards, travel hacking, FIRE-adjacent thinking, bicoastal living, and building wealth that funds a life you love.
- Travel: slow, intentional, culturally aware travel – city guides, itineraries, logistics, and real cost breakdowns.
Where Do You Want to Start?
Start with Money
Get your financial foundation and card strategy dialed in so travel supports your life, not the other way around. Think: points, miles, lifestyle design, and clear numbers — without the shame or the flexing.
Recommended first read:
Broke Boy’s Guide to Credit Cards →
Start with Travel
Dial in how you move through the world: where you go, how you show up, and what you spend on. Slow travel, city deep dives, Native Lands context, and itineraries that respect your time and energy.
Recommended first read:
The Native Lands Travel Guide →
Featured Guides
A few pieces that give you a feel for the Money Meets Travel approach — part math, part mindset, part lived experience.
Broke Boy’s Guide to Credit Cards
Travel better on average credit — without doing dumb sh*t. How to pick cards, avoid traps, and actually put points to work for you.
The Native Lands Travel Guide
Travel ethically and in partnership with Indigenous communities. Context, etiquette, Native-led resources, and questions to ask yourself before you go.
48 Hours in Phoenix (Luxury-Minimal Edition)
A curated 2-day itinerary that respects your time and energy: where to stay, what to eat, and what’s actually worth it.
Who’s Behind Money Meets Travel?
Hi, I’m J.J. — the main human behind Money Meets Travel. I care about the way money shapes our choices, and the way travel shapes our perspective. I like clear numbers, good food, ethical itineraries, and leaving places better than I found them.
Most of what you’ll read here comes from my own experiments, mistakes, and lived experience — with support from the Money Meets Travel Team on research, editing, and Native-led context where it matters.
Want smarter money & better travel?
The Money Meets Travel Letter is where the best ideas go first — real numbers, frameworks, and behind-the-scenes lessons from the road.
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