FIRE 013 – Travel hacking $14,000 honeymoons for $500, and taking a gap year with Noah from Money Metagame

Summary: Today's show notes and episode takeaways can be found here: http://firedrillpodcast.com/fire013<br> <br> Olá! We're thrilled to bring you another FIRE enthusiast, money blogger, travel hacker (expert-level I'd say), and overall amazing dude.<br> <br> Meet Noah from Money Metagame.<br> <br> Noah is about to embark on a gap year, so this proved an excellent opportunity to discuss setting that up, how it'll look on a resume, as well as a dive deep on the financials and how it might affect early retirement.<br> <br> Also, he and his wife took a worthy-of-viral-pinterest $14,000 honeymoon to Fiji, New Zealand, etc, flying business class the whole way....<br> <br> For less than $500 total.<br> <br> In this episode we discuss:<br> <br> how a gap year might affect your target retirement date<br> how he's manage to build an incredible amount of miles/points (travel hacking 101)<br> why he's used over 60 credit cards over the past few years<br> the different savings vehicles you can use to save for FI (important!)<br> how he aspires to be a professional obstacle course racer :)<br> This is a great episode for investors (specifically those building for FI), as well as current and future travel hackers. Enjoy!