How I Discovered the Trick to Traveling for Pennies

I recently released my new course on How to Travel the World for Free.

http://www.fredericpatenaude.com/travel

Today I want to tell you the story of how it happened.

You see, I’ve always been a traveler, and traveling has always been one of my biggest expenses.

It’s a life choice.

Some people spend a lot on a big house, some people buy a trendy sports car. Some people like to buy trendy clothes.

I chose to travel.

A few years ago, I got in contact with a great friend with whom I had lost touch for almost 10 years. Her name is Shelli Stein, and she’s a fitness trainer in Honolulu.

Shelli quickly became a close friend and mentor. She’s about 20 years older than me, and sort of became my “big sister,” giving me all sorts of useful advice and feedback.

Maybe I got along well with Shelli because she was also a traveler.

In the few years since we’ve been back in touch, she’s traveled all over the world.

- She went on a 3-week trip to New Zealand with her partner

- She went on a 3-week trip to Italy again with her partner (in the same year!)

- She went on a trip all by herself all the way to Hong Kong and Bali

- And many more

It’s the style of Shelli’s travels that impressed me. She would be flying in first class and staying in high-end hotels. So I assumed she was extremely wealthy.

I was wrong.

She knew something I didn’t know.

She discovered methods for traveling for pennies instead of dollars.

So over the next year, she patiently taught me everything she knew about her method for traveling.

At first, I thought she was just gathering frequent flyer miles by going on trips often, and then redeeming them for other trips.

“You know I get frequent flyer miles too,” I told Shelli.

“In fact, I get almost 2K a year in traveling just with that!”

But Shelli wasn’t impressed. She had discovered methods that were way beyond that. In fact, she would manage to get trips that would normally cost over 10K for just a few hundred dollars.

I’m talking about flying all the way from the West Coast to Europe in First Class, and then staying in the best hotel in town for a week. For less than $200…!

As I started applying Shelli’s techniques, I was blown away by my results.

At the moment, I find myself in a weird situation.

I could go *anywhere* in the world, but I just don’t know where to go.

I could fly *anywhere* in the world in first class, and stay in a 4 or 5 star hotel for about two weeks.

I haven’t decided where I’m going to go yet. But I’m looking at my options.

The bottom line is I managed to do all of this through the method that Shelli taught me.

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