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Welcome to the next interview in our interview series where renowned mile and point gurus share their insights on having Big Travel with Small Money!
Miles & Points Interview: Travel is Free
Drew & Carrie are a broke married couple in their 20s who love to travel with miles and points. I was looking forward to learning more from them on Friday!
How and when did you start collecting miles and points?
My first rewards card came from researching how to save money on an upcoming road trip. Later, I decided that I was going to travel the world but had no idea how. I was content on boat hopping, hitchhiking and whatever it took.
It wasn’t until my wife and I fell in love that I decided I needed a new plan. When we were dating I spent alot of time googling ways to travel for free and the best info I found was stuff like hitchiking and couchsurfing, which I already had tried. Until I saw an article on people buying $1 coins on rewards cards.
That led me to flyertalk and the credit cards began. Before I knew it, we had millions of miles.

Drew in Fiji
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