I first stumbled across 10xTravel almost four years ago. I knew that traveling as much as I wanted to was not going to be possible with the career I had chosen (regular government work doesn't pay as much as people think). So, I started researching travel credit card rewards options, came upon 10xTravel, and never looked back.
My work relocated my husband, dog and I to Los Angeles in 2016 for about two years. We had never lived on the West Coast before so we knew that we needed to take advantage of this location (and easy access to LAX) for a big international trip. After some back and forth about where to go and for how long, we settled on a 3-week trip to Machu Picchu, the Amazon and the Galapagos Islands. We knew we'd have to maximize our points and miles to afford this trip.
This is how we did it.
I knew we would want to travel during the "shoulder season" (the month or two between the good weather high tourist season and the poor weather low tourist season) for both Peru and Ecuador to both save some money and encounter fewer crowds. However, due to geography and weather the shoulder season of Peru and Ecuador did not line up perfectly.
We ended up choosing October 2018 as our travel month as it was the closest to the shoulder season we could get for both Peru and Ecuador, and it allowed us to take advantage of a federal holiday we both had.
Once we decided this about two years ago, I got to work on planning our trip.
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