DIWYY Digest May 5 2010

How are you going to pay for your trip abroad?

You’ve been dreaming about traveling abroad for as long as you can remember. Whether it’s your first time to travel internationally or your 10th time, there’s one thing that you always need and that’s money.

Kristina and Jerri have been traveling abroad and financing their own trips since college and are going to share with you the tips and secrets they’ve learned along the way for successfully paying for your trip.

The webinar will cover the topics of:

• Choosing the trip you want to go on
  • Find your destination based on costs of getting there and staying there
  • Decide the best trip for you: volunteering, working, studying abroad (all three?)
• Planning a budget
  • Determine how much you need and how long until you will have it all before you leave on your journey
  • Consider before-you-leave-home costs such as visa, passport, immunizations
  • Deciding what you will spend your money on once you get there: transportation, housing, food, enteratainment, etc.
• Paying for it all
  • How to find and use scholarships, loans, saving, relatives, gift registries, odd jobs

Between Kristina and Jerri, they’ve covered 7 continents and more than 60 countries through studying, volunteering, and working abroad and all before the age of 30. Between student loans, fundraisers, scrimping, saving, bartering and bargaining they’ve done it all in order to find ways to travel the world.

Register for the trip here and use promo code: planyourtrip. When the registration form asks how much you are paying just enter $0.

See you tomorrow, Thursday, May 6, at 7:00 PM Central (8:00PM Eastern/5:00PM Pacific).

* Photo: courtesy of morgan childers.