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Budgeting for Travel - Travel Budgets and Budgeting Plans for Travel

The biggest question in traveling is, for many, how in the world to pay for it? See some real life travel budgets and ideas for budgeting for travel from other student travelers and backpackers, including those who have student loans to cope with while traveling.
The Lost Girls Round the World Travel Budget
The Lost Girls, three US travelers who undertook a round the world trip and blogged it, have done all backpackers a favor by detailing the round the world travel budget they used. Check out some great travel budget ideas in this series of blog posts from the traveling gals.
SoYouWanna pay off your student loans?
Advice on how to pay off student loans, including earning student loan forgiveness through traveling with the Peace Corps or getting money meant to pay off student loans through some kinds of volunteering.
One Backpacker's Decision to Travel 'Round the World
Backpacker David Lee's chronicle of his current prep for backpacking around the world, including how in the world to pay for it. Check out his strategies for getting out of debt and saving for travel.
Saving Money For Travel: Backpacker's Budgeting Website
As they say: "a simple, step-by-step, common-sense approach to saving for traveling. No scams. No get-rich-quick schemes. Just a tried and tested approach written by a budget backpacker for other backpackers."
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