Travel Fund

I've talked with Chuck and we've decided to rename our Anniversary Savings our Travel Fund. We are still planning a big trip (7-10 days) to Hawaii to celebrate our 10 year wedding anniversary in 2012. However, there is other traveling we want to do and we want to make sure we have money saved for these trips.

There are two other trips we want to take. One is to El Paso to visit my brother. He's put in his transfer request and the earliest he could be transferred to the northern border is November. Before he comes home, I want to see El Paso, where he lives, the town, etc. It may be just me going for a long weekend or Chuck and I or a whole family vacation. Those details are all TBD depending on when my brother gets his notice.

The other trip we need to start saving for is a big Disney trip. We want to take the kids to Disney when they are 4 and 6 or 5 and 7 years old. That means 2011 or 2012. And we'd like to make it a long vacation (about 7 days) so we can make sure we get to see and do everything we'd like. I think after the HELOC is paid off we'll up our monthly travel fund contribution from $20 to $50 or so to boost this fund a little bit. Then after we've built our emergency savings and our basement fund maybe we can funnel more money into this account.

There are just so many things we want to do! Finish our basement, travel, purchase new vehicles (ours are 1999 and 2000 models currently). And we want to do all this stuff in the next 1-4 years! I'm so happy we'll have our debt paid off soon (knock on wood!) so we can actually do some of this stuff without digging us into an even deeper hole.