Aato Seppuku

Europe; How to get there.

By flying. duh. 

Part 1.

I live in San Diego, which is about 3 hours away from LA, and conciendentally, LAX the closest international airport. The way I am planning to start this journey is to fly to New York, spend a couple of days there, and then hop on a plane to Spain. To jump across the pond, the general cost is about $700ish. For my trip, I am planning on two different options:

• Go domestic for the flights still within the United States. I like to keep on eye on three different airlines: Southwest, Virgin America, and Jetblue. I highly suggest signing up for their email alerts, and make sure to send them to an email that you actually check. They can get a little spammy, but believe me it is awesome when a airfare sale comes with exactly the flight you want for a lot less than you would normally pay. Most of the time the special sales have a time restriction or expire, so keeping on top of them is key. 
• A friend of mine just suggested cheapoair.com. So far, they are offering cheapest flights to New York. ($180 while most are about 240)
• For international travel, Kayak works just fine, and they search other website s like expedia and travelocity. This is great if you are not a student or over 26. 
• BUT if you are student and/or under 26 (which I am, although very close to 26) statravel.com is awesome! So far I am finding flights at least 200 to 300 dollars cheaper than any other website. 

As a review. 

southwest.com, virginamerica.com, and jetblue.com for domestic flights.

cheapoair.com if everything else fails

kayak.com if you’re old and not a student

and 

statravel.com for those who are not as old and or in school 

Enjoy!

  

(oh btw, all these photos are mine, and these are from Nueva Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico)

Europe; How to get there.

By flying. duh. 

Part 1.

I live in San Diego, which is about 3 hours away from LA, and conciendentally, LAX the closest international airport. The way I am planning to start this journey is to fly to New York, spend a couple of days there, and then hop on a plane to Spain. To jump across the pond, the general cost is about $700ish. For my trip, I am planning on two different options:

• Go domestic for the flights still within the United States. I like to keep on eye on three different airlines: Southwest, Virgin America, and Jetblue. I highly suggest signing up for their email alerts, and make sure to send them to an email that you actually check. They can get a little spammy, but believe me it is awesome when a airfare sale comes with exactly the flight you want for a lot less than you would normally pay. Most of the time the special sales have a time restriction or expire, so keeping on top of them is key. 
• A friend of mine just suggested cheapoair.com. So far, they are offering cheapest flights to New York. ($180 while most are about 240)
• For international travel, Kayak works just fine, and they search other website s like expedia and travelocity. This is great if you are not a student or over 26. 
• BUT if you are student and/or under 26 (which I am, although very close to 26) statravel.com is awesome! So far I am finding flights at least 200 to 300 dollars cheaper than any other website. 

As a review. 

southwest.com, virginamerica.com, and jetblue.com for domestic flights.

cheapoair.com if everything else fails

kayak.com if you’re old and not a student

and 

statravel.com for those who are not as old and or in school 

Enjoy!

  

(oh btw, all these photos are mine, and these are from Nueva Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico)

Europe, A prologue.

As many of you might not know, I am planning a trip to Europe. It is not going to be like one of those 2 week stints, seeing all the highlights. It is going to be a trip that will last months. This trip is going to be epic.  

I for one still consider myself a baby to the world of traveling, by no means am I a virgin, but maybe say….a toddler.  I never really considered traveling extensively up until recently, which literally means since I graduated college. Moving to San Francisco definetly planted the seed and fueled the fire. My most recent trip was a 3 week wandering around southern mexico, which was what opened Pandoras box. I came back inspired, refreshed, full of life and ready to take on the world. That trip stripped away all of the bullshit in my life and helped me focus on what I really wanted to with my life. That trip was exactly what I needed. 

What is interesting is not that I did not have the desire to travel, is just didn’t know how to start. My parents were and still are, very sedentary people. They like to stay at home and do nothing. We used to go on trips as a child, but for whatever reason as my brother and I go older, the frequency of family camping, trips dropped to next to nothing. We went on road trips, flew back east for a month, I even went to Vancouver and Hawaii with my high school marching band. I look back, and I could see that I was exicited about traveling, but the thought never occured to me to make an effort to travel. 

So here I am, making said effort. I am horrible at blogging, I tend to get distracted (i.e. drunk or high), I go off on tangents, I rarely finish things that I have started, but at least I am going to set aside the time to try. Mainly, I am aim at sharing all the shit ton of links that I have utilized for research, little tips and tricks that have been shared with me.