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Why Travel Is Good for Your Mental Health, Personal Growth, and Budget · Stacked Intent: Your Guide to Authentic, Intentional Living

• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: Hello, I am Becca Steckhouse Morrison, and I am so excited that you are joining me for Becoming Authentically Youth.
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  SPEAKER_00: I look forward to having you come along with me on this journey of becoming authentically.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the Stacked Intent podcast, and it's going to challenge you, bring you tips, and provide some resources all along while you're cozy, riding along, and joining in and lesson.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to Stack and Tent.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today we're going to be talking about why traveling is important to your world.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have with us Amy Stackhouse from Stack Keys Podcast, who's going to be having our conversation with us today on travel.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_01: Hi, I'm excited to be here.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love to travel and can't wait to talk about some of these aspects of traveling and why it's important to your world.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: Our objectives today are I hope that you walk away from gaining some knowledge of why traveling is important, gaining the knowledge of memories and experiences that can come from traveling, and why a budget that is created for traveling can be really, really important.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, those all sound like great things to walk away with.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_01: So in the topics of why travel, when I start thinking about why I travel, I just go all over the place, but it certainly can take us out of our comfort zone, trying to see new things, taste new things, try new things.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_01: It's hard for me to leave my comfort zone.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: So leaving our comfort zones does come with travel, but sometimes that just means getting out of the mundane of your day.
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  SPEAKER_00: So going to a new restaurant or a new place in town can be considered traveling.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but the other side of that is that you could be considered traveling by going to the other side of the world on another continent and in another country.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_00: So it doesn't mean that we just have to do these big extravagant things.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_00: They can just be in our own backyard, even a couple of hours up the road.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_01: Oh wow.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_01: So just small steps sometimes.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_01: I know that just in the way airline travel has changed, that can take me out of a comfort zone.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_01: So challenge being challenged to adapt and explore new surroundings, that's kind of a fun aspect to travel, to have to adapt.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can be fun, but it can be anxiety-inducing for some people as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I think that one of the things that it lets us do is it challenges our own abilities of what we think in our own world.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: It requires us to look at what our surroundings are and figure out what we need out of that surrounding or what we can adapt to or adjust to.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_01: So I think I've noticed that when you go into a different country, sometimes your eating is even better because there's not all that processed food and it's so much fresher.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_01: Have you found that a little bit?
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, with Crohn's, it definitely has benefited me in traveling out of the country.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_00: On my first trip, I remember being really, really concerned that I was going to be sick the whole time I was gone.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_00: Because traveling and eating within the US and on our country, it's been a big challenge for me, even to the point of unless I'm real familiar with what I'm eating, sometimes I don't, I'd rather be hungry than eat out.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_00: So traveling, it's been a unique experience of I actually feel a lot better.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, both times I've been in China eating the street food or the local restaurants has been so much better for me than trying to eat what they call Americanized foods a lot of times.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_00: Or when I went to Peru, the restaurants had rotisserie chicken available by the quarter or the half or the whole chicken, almost every single restaurant we went to.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_00: And let me tell you, when you're five, one and a half, not that big, and you order a whole rotisserie chicken for dinner, the waiter desperately uh questions if you're going to consume that whole chicken.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_01: And yet you do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but that was also after an entire day of traveling.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_00: So why traveling?
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  SPEAKER_00: It it expands our worlds to worlds that we wouldn't know any other way but experiencing it through our own eyes.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and when you do this travel, it's so great to not go with what's on the postcard, but kind of go more local and kind of experience from that perspective.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: One of I mean, one of my favorite ways to really, really look at it is I have really good friends that live in the Bahamas.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_00: And we've been twice as a family on mission trips, and then we stuck around one time to kind of just hang out and see things.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_00: And anytime I've ever told people I've gone to the Bahamas, they're like, oh, that's so cool.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_00: But their picture in their head is your Nassau resorts and big buildings and those beaches, but that's not the side of the Bahamas that I've fallen in love with.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I mean, one of my best friends that was just recently in my wedding, it's that's where she's from.
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  SPEAKER_00: And learning her love for the Bahamas has been fun.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, going to the places that they find as their local places, or what they think is important to know about their country and the places to visit and the things to do.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_00: That's the side of traveling that I love.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I've learned that in China and getting to go some of those places as the translators or the local people that we were with kind of navigated and told us some of those cool places to go.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um, same place in the Mexico.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_00: We went to the cool little restaurant, um, taco shacks that help support that helps support a family, but the tacos that you get there are just incredible.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_00: So, why traveling is it really expands your world and it takes you outside of what gets Americanized a lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: A lot of our restaurants, even though we eat some of these cultures like Mexican and Chinese and things like that, there's an Americanization that happens to those that we lose what their actual authentic aspect of food is.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_01: Well, that's true in food, but it's also true in the icons that you can visit, um, just the things that that are famous in some of the areas maybe that that we travel.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_01: Uh seeing it from a locals perspective is is somewhat different.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_01: And even if it's not an international travel, but you know, just seeing we we live close to the capital um of Alabama and knowing what people come and and come see versus what we see day in and day out, it's just kind of nice to jump into somebody that is around those surroundings and kind of take it from their view um to explore.
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_01: And I guess exploring the white travel is the exploration.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_00: It's exploring, it's gaining knowledge, it's taking things off of a textbook.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I mean, I've been to the Great Wall and Machi Pichu, which are both places that you read about in our books, and so seeing those in person and off of the page puts a different view on how you see the world and the greatness.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_00: Because I mean, and then if you take it to domestic travel, I've been to Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon and um some of those places that we consider some of our really big places to visit, and seeing those off of the pages, it's the same thing, it's just really getting a knowledge and appreciation for things that exist outside our little micro existence.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_01: And traveling can certainly make you happier.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_01: I I love both to plan a trip and then take a trip and then kind of reminisce the trip.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so that's also a why travel.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_01: It it can change pretty much how you feel.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so traveling is one of those things that it can make us happier, and some of that is it just takes us outside of our day-to-day.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can help you disconnect from what your world looks like, it can help you recharge.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, it can also take some of that stress and anxiety and put a relief in it because you're putting pause or hold on some of the things that you have happening.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_00: It also gives you a great way to explore some new things, it can make you physically healthier, and that can just be getting you active or getting you into a new place, and then it also can boost some creativity, and that again is just staying in your day-to-day, you get very, very bogged down by what day-to-day is, and exploring can trigger some new creativity in your mind.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_01: Well, all of those are fabulous, and that disconnecting, you know, we are so plugged into our phone, and some of my favorite travels have involved where I just didn't have connectivity, I didn't have the access to the internet, and I was forced to uh disconnect.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, one of my favorite things when I travel internationally has been just being able to turn my phone off and not really care that it's not on for two, three, four weeks.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I I totally agree.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_01: So traveling alone or together.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, if you're going on a trip all by yourself, that can be anxiety producing or it can eliminate a lot.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_01: So, what's your thought process on the traveling alone or together?
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_00: Well, traveling alone as a solo traveler gives you a chance to listen to what your gut and controlling what you have, the direction that you head.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_00: And then it also allows you to reflect on your decisions and what you discover.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_00: I've never really been so inspired to travel alone until I had a lot of international friends in college.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_00: And one thing that a lot of them did was if they wanted to go see something and no one was available or wanted to go with them, they packed up and went.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_00: It didn't matter what they were doing, how they were gonna get there.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, they rode buses, they got on planes, they got to the places that they wanted to see.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_00: And I asked a few of them, why?
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_00: Why not wait till somebody can go with you?
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_00: And a consistent consensus in most of their answers was if they waited, they may never ever get the opportunity to go to that place again because they may have to return to their home countries and not get the chance to come back to the US or go to whatever state it was to go see whatever monument or place or explore, and so they did it alone, and so it gave them this ability to explore by themselves, and it was inspiring.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I mean, if you think about solo traveling, it gives you some sheer freedom.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're you're alone, your decisions are yours.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, you get to pick the perfect trip.
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  SPEAKER_00: If it's a bust, it's a bust.
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  SPEAKER_00: But overall, you're the one that gets to decide what the trip is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, all the time in the world to reflect and think back on the piece of it.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_00: And then you also have the increased self-confidence because there's this power that comes in doing it alone, and then a greater awareness, but you also have self-discovery that comes along with it.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_00: One of the times that I have traveled alone in my world is I went to China for the first time as a sophomore junior in college, and I wasn't alone on the trip, but I did go by myself.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_00: I met four other women in the airport in DC, and then we got on a plane to China together.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the first time I had met any of them was in DC as we got on a plane to go over and be on this trip to connect with orphans, to explore the Great Wall of China, to do some really, really cool things, but I did it alone, and that was the first trip that I had really done alone like that.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_00: But that came after some of these friends I had had, and so the encouragement that I had to take the power in doing that was really cool, and that was a trip that really, really changed and guided some of who I was because I knew that I could do a trip by myself, that I could go have fun, meet new people, and learn a new place, and I was capable of it.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_01: That is pretty impressive.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_01: Traveling alone doesn't mean that you have to do everything by yourself and have no plan to it, but traveling alone, um, the the no fear is just incredible to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you you talk about the the people that were your friends through college.
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  SPEAKER_01: There was a no fear.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_01: Now, sometimes I think you need to have a little dose of fear, maybe to be smart about some of your choices.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um and and ignorance is not bliss, but it can get you in trouble.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_01: But um, but I think that's a really neat challenge to to take on yourself to to do some alone traveling.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but then traveling together is kind of cool too, and you you don't have to be from the same household, you can connect with with all kinds of people as you travel together.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: You can travel together and it can be a friend group you go with, uh, it could be your partner, it can be your siblings, it can be your family, or there are places that you can group together and go with things, but the traveling together that we're going to focus on is looking at ways that helps you really reconnect with those people that exist in your life.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_00: And so that is traveling together.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's finding a destination that you want to go together, and then planning it out, but being okay when plan A, B, C, D doesn't work out, and it might be plan F that happens.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_00: It's knowing when you're going, when you're returning, and the in-between may fluctuate some.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, and that being intentional about making your plans.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_01: Um, both traveling alone and traveling together both require you to plan and to think about just like you said, where you start out, where you end up.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but traveling with that intentional, being intent with your life.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_00: Being intentional is huge.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_00: And when you're traveling alone, you have a little more autonomy of how your schedule's gonna work.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_00: But when you start traveling together, you you kind of have to map it out a little bit.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I know that in my life, if things try to happen the same month, it typically doesn't.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_00: I have a group of friends, and we were gonna plan to go on a girls' trip in December.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_00: And because we waited until the middle of November to plan it, end of November, we had to push it back to the beginning of January, which is fine.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be great, it's gonna be a blast, but it meant that we had to shift a little bit because our calendars fill up quickly.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_00: So whether we like to plan them or not, they're gonna fill up one way or another.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: And so if you're trying to take trips together, being really intentional with when those are gonna be.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I know that for mine and my husband's anniversary, he is being very insistent to block out the four days of the trip that we planned back what, four or five months ago.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_00: He's being very intentional to make sure that that time doesn't get sucked away by something else.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_00: And so it's you have to decide that you're gonna protect once you do make a plan for a trip.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_00: That there are exceptions to every rule, of course, but for the most part, trying not to make the changes and the shifts of when you make a plan for like our girls' trip or my husband's anniversary trip.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_00: Or in 2021, me and my sister and brother took a siblings trip, and that took some very intentional planning between all three of our schedules to make sure that we had the days available to get to go on a trip and spend the days together.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um then we've made some two-week road trips where we just start driving in a direction and drive until we think we've gone far enough and need enough time to get back to our destination.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I think it's kind of interesting when I'm thinking about traveling together.
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  SPEAKER_01: A lot of times you think of what you like.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_01: Um, like you and your sister travel towards lighthouses.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_01: And so that kind of gives you a path.
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  SPEAKER_01: So a lot of times you can come up with some ideas of of what you like together.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_01: Do you like the beach?
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_01: Do you like the mountains?
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_01: Do you like lighthouses?
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_01: Do you dive?
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_01: Do you all of these activities can help you plan that traveling together?
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but one of the things that I think have has to be incorporated both in traveling alone or traveling together, and and definitely your wise is that budgeting.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_01: And um budgeting can be a scary thing in all aspects, but uh in traveling, it it certainly has a big play.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_00: Well, it's got a big play, but a lot of that big play also comes from you don't want to put it all on a credit card because putting it all in a credit card means that you're putting it somewhere that you may not necessarily have the funds to provide for that experience.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_00: And the problem with that is then you're gonna end up paying double the amount for that trip because you're paying for interest and costs that you don't necessarily have to incur in getting the ability to be able to travel.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_00: And so it's budgeting with what's a plane ticket gonna cost me?
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_00: Well, it may depend on the time of the year that you're flying and where you're flying, what airports you have access to, is a rental car going to be needed, what activities, where are we even staying?
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_00: So the first thing you really have to decide in this budgeting is what is a budgeting fund monthly that you could put away.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_00: Can you put away$50,$200 a month for traveling so that maybe when you open that travel fund and you want to buy a plane ticket, you've got$700 to buy the plane ticket instead of, oh, I need$700 to go on this trip.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_00: How am I gonna make it happen?
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_00: Well, if you've been doing it little by little, you'd be surprised with what you can make happen on doing that.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_00: The next decision would be are you gonna use debit cards, cash, or credit cards?
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: Cash works.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_00: Debit cards are they're a good thing because then you're functioning on the funds that you have available.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_00: Credit cards.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can be a good thing if you respect your limit of spending on your credit card.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_00: But personally, I prefer to use my credit card when I'm traveling, not and have the cash so that when I'm done with that trip, I immediately pay that off.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_00: So I like my credit cards to have a zero balance when I start a trip.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_00: And then the only things that go on that card is the expenses from the trip, from the food to the plane tickets to the car rentals to the where I'm gonna stay to the activities in general, all of it.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_00: And the other side that I like using a credit card for is fraudulent expenses can happen.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_00: Me and my best friend drove one time from North Carolina to Florida.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_00: And in the process of that trip, somewhere along the way, both of us, our debit cards got hit and fraudulent charges put on them.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: And they happen simultaneously.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: So they obviously happened at the same place somewhere.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that can be hard to catch while you're traveling.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: And so if you do it on a credit card, you can catch that when you go back to look at that statement easier than being out, however much that money is.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_00: The other reason is when you go to do a car rental or a hotel rental, sometimes they put significant holds on a debit card.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_00: So you may think, oh, I have$800 for this trip.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_00: Well,$400 is going to be my hotel,$400 I have to spend.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_00: What happens if they decide to hold$800 on your debit card?
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_00: You then don't have the money that you plan to have.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_00: So using your credit card allows for holds to happen and not necessarily affect your spending money.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, deciding where to stay.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_00: If you're not familiar with an area, making sure you stay in a safe place.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we have lots of options from houses we can rent through something like Airbnb or Vimbo.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_00: You've got hotels you can stay in.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_00: You've got maybe a friend or family you can stay with.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_00: So deciding where and what fits in your budget.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_00: If you're traveling alone, all that cost is gonna land on you.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_00: If you're traveling with other people, well, did y'all make the deal ahead of time that you're gonna split whatever y'all decide to do straight down the middle?
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_00: Is it gonna go five ways because there's five of y'all traveling?
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um, if you're two couples and a fifth person, do the couples pay the same amount as the other person, or does each individual person pay the same amount?
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_00: Personally, what we've always done when we've got people is every single person counts as their own.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_00: And so that way everyone fairly pays.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_01: Um it's important to have those conversations before the trip so you're not trying to figure it out and have to take feelings into account when you know you could just take care of it up front and know what direction you'll go.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, one other thing I wanted to say about those credit cards is um I ran into a problem one time where my name did not match my license, and um, my name on the credit card, and that can become pretty significant.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_01: Like we went to rent a car, and because my name on the credit card did not match my license, I was denied being able to do that rental and actually was sent down the street to rent a wreck.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_01: So I highly encourage people to look at their documentation.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_01: You know, go back to your international travel of um if your passport is not um up to date, then you've got a plan for that timing.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_01: So budgeting is not just the money, but it's budgeting your time according to your plan.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so it there's lots that goes into budgeting.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, passports.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_00: If you need a passport a visa, those are gonna be things that cost money.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_00: And don't wait until the last minute for it because then you're gonna have to put a rush on it and pay more than what you would have just had to pay if you planned four months ahead instead of four weeks ahead.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_00: And then definitely, and then it's looking at activities.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_00: It are you gonna do things that cost you in activities?
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_00: I have like so when my sister, my best friend, and I went to Napa Valley, we had decided we were doing um a balloon ride and a couple other things, but the balloon ride was our biggest expense, and everything else needed to stay a little bit more minimal because that one was going to be a big cost for us to incur.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_00: And so it's deciding, you may not get to do every activity.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're alone, what activity is the best decision for you?
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_00: If you're the collective group, what activity works for everybody in their budgets?
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so if you create this travel budget, then it allows you to really enjoy your trip.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_01: And it's it's been said that travel is glamorous only in retrospect, and um that's because the actual travel can can be intense, but being able to look back on it is just it can just warm your heart when you see the pictures or when you think about it.
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_00: This finding uh overall travel, a challenge traveling alone and together is important, having your own why, and then having a budget for it.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_00: For me, budgeting became really important when both my sister and my best friend were on the west coast, and I knew I wanted to be able to buy plane tickets, and those things aren't that cheap.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_00: So making that a non-negotiable category on my budget became very important, and it still exists six and a half years later as a non-negotiable on my budget, even being married.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_00: It I the amount that needed to be in there increased when I got married, but we have two big non-negotiables on our budget.
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_00: Savings and travels are two of those biggest non-negotiables.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_01: That's great.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_01: That definitely allows you the freedom to um to do the things you want to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I believe there's a quote from Helen Keller that says, Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I would go for that daring adventure.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I hope that you have gained some knowledge of why you might travel, gain some knowledge on the memories and experiences that can come from traveling alone or traveling together.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_00: And then importantly, why having a budget or talking about some of that finances is important.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so an anonymous person has said that life is meant for good friends and great adventures, and so I dare you to choose two new towns or places in your next year to explore.
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  SPEAKER_00: And do it do one of them solo and do one of them as a group with some friends or a partner or your family.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I dare you to do that in your next year.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_01: That sounds like a great challenge.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm up for it.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_00: That brings us to the end of this episode of Stacked Intent.
• 30:07
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• 30:15
  SPEAKER_00: New episodes are gonna be dropped on Thursdays.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_00: Until then, this is Becca, and don't forget, enrich your life by being intentional.
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  SPEAKER_00: This podcast was created, produced, and recorded and edited by Stack Temple.