Unautomate Your Finances

One of the most difficult facets of actually traveling for more than a week or two at a time is figuring out how to manage your personal finances. Things are a lot more complicated than just figuring out how to change money to something you can use locally. Adam Baker has created an ebook that can walk you through the process — and he’s speaking from experience. After finding himself and his family is a less-than-wonderful financial situation, Baker and his wife paid off their consumer debt, sold most of their possessions and started traveling. They’ve been to Australia and New Zealand since leaving the States and have Thailand next on their list.

The Little Budget Travel Book Giveaway

I used a random number generator to pick the winning comments for the two copies of The Little Budget Travel Book

The winners are the 2nd and 5th commenters, Patty and Sally. I’ll be emailing both of you to make arrangements to get you the books. Thanks for all the great entries!

Still want a copy? You can purchase The Little Budget Travel Book on Amazon for $14.35.

Review: The Little Budget Travel Book

David Ning, the blogger behind MoneyNing, has a passion for travel. He’s down a fair amount of traveling himself and collected tips and tricks for keeping expenses under control while you’re on the road. That information has evolved into a book, The Little Budget Travel Book.

5 Personal Finance Tips for Travelers

Having a good handle on your personal finances is important. When your goal is to see the world, your finances become absolutely crucial. Having a good grasp of your financial goals — and how you’re going to reach them — is at least as important as deciding on where you’re going to travel and how you’re going to fund the trip. Furthermore, the two are incredibly intertwined.

TaxAct: You Can File Your Taxes Online

If you’re expected to pay taxes in the U.S., April 15th is approaching rapidly. Whether or not you’re actually in the country, you’re probably thinking about how you can get your taxes done. Preparing a tax return can be a struggle, whether you’re a freelancer figuring out self-employment taxes from Europe or a telecommuter calculating a deduction for the business use of your apartment in Australia.

ING Direct’s Easy Travel Options

I’m a really big fan of ING Direct: I like being able to do pretty much all of my banking online and ING is happy to let me do so. An added bonus of eliminating all those tellers that seem necessary for any other bank is that I get higher interest rates on my savings. My fondness for ING Direct aside, however, it has made the news recently for making life a little easier for travelers.

Nora Dunn: A Year’s Worth of Travel Expenses

Nora Dunn, one of the awesome women that I’ve interviewed for my upcoming book, posted recently about the cost of her full-time traveling lifestyle. The full post, “The Cost of Full-Time Travel,” is available on WiseBread.com and offers a great breakdown of just where Nora’s money went. But I want to point out her conclusion in particular: