Category: Finance

There I was, sitting in a cramped airport terminal, clutching my boarding pass like a winning lottery ticket. I had just pulled off the improbable: a free flight to Tokyo, snatched from the jaws of an airline loyalty program that seemed more convoluted than the plot of a bad soap opera. Let’s be clear, travel […]

I remember the first time I held a travel credit card in my hands. It was shiny, promising the world—alluring as a siren. I was naïve, fresh out of the mountain village, where credit cards were as foreign as the idea of a beach holiday. I thought I’d unlocked the door to jet-setting adventures, only […]

I once found myself in a bustling Tokyo market, clutching a receipt longer than a mountain trail and wondering how I’d managed to obliterate my budget before lunchtime. I blame the allure of neon lights and the siren call of street food that whispers promises of culinary nirvana. But the truth? I was just another […]

I once thought I was a budget travel pro, the kind of person who could stretch a dollar until it begged for mercy. That was until I found myself in a foreign city, staring at my dwindling bank balance with the kind of existential dread usually reserved for midlife crises. Turns out, my ‘method’ of […]

I once thought I could fund my wanderlust by sheer force of will—and a few desperate prayers. Spoiler alert: neither worked. It took one particularly brutal month of living on instant noodles and avoiding eye contact with my ATM balance to realize that my travel dreams weren’t going to magically manifest themselves. I was, in […]