I recently returned from a weekend camp out with a bunch of guys I’ve never met. And it was great! Note: I’m writing this a month later, so I apologize if the details are a little hazy. Back in 2017, I was assigned to work in Japan for six months. Because listening to Japanese radio […]
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Welcome to my monthly report! This is where I’ll talk about my extra income earned, progress on paying off my debt, earning reward points for travel, and blog traffic for the month of August 2018. 1. Background Why did I even start Pilgrim for Less in the first place? In a nutshell, I’ve been blessed
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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my Disclosure for more info. Sometimes I don’t need a lot of motivation to go fly somewhere. Regardless of my initial motivations to fly, to me, any trip is worth having a pilgrimage portion to it. But in this recent Phoenix pilgrimage, I originally had fun intentions, but had
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Maybe I have too much of a young adult mindset. I feel like in today’s culture that the library is not ever at the forefront of everyone’s mind. Sure, gone are the days of sleepless nights studying in university libraries or completing book reports or playing Flash or Java games as a way to procrastinate
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Up until 2013, most of my spiritual experiences requiring travel involved going on retreats and visiting churches that are not my own parish. Since 2013, I’ve gone on a good mixture of pilgrimages. From the March for Life in Washington, DC, the World Youth Days in Rio and Krakow, and the many scattered locations throughout
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Welcome to my first ever monthly report! This is where I’ll talk about my extra income earned, progress on paying off my debt, earning rewards, and blog traffic for the month of July in this year of 2018 AD. Let me warn you—this is going to be a lengthy post, but I will try to
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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my Disclosure for more info. One thing that’s really cool about pilgrimages is being able to talk about the travel aspects. Being a pilgrim is being at the intersection of faith and travel, after all. Therefore, I don’t consider travel as an excuse to NOT practice devotions, disciplines, and
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You don’t need to wait to have thousands of dollars to spend two or three weeks to go on a pilgrimage. Let me tell you about a quick and easy way to get out there and go on a pilgrimage. Turn this Sunday into a pilgrimage! I was tuned into Morning Glory on EWTN Radio
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Before starting Pilgrim for Less, I sent out a survey to a handful of friends. One of the questions I asked was “Describe your ideal pilgrimage”. I received an interesting variety of responses, and I wanted to share with you some of those answers: “with my family anywhere, anytime as long as we are complete,
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I have a lot of things to be working on, and crushing my debt is definitely one of them. Growing up, I lived a typical, parents-are-immigrants-from-the-Philippines middle-class life. Throughout high school and college, finances were a bit of a stretch for my parents because of having to take care of my elderly grandparents, my brother,
