I'm Joel McDonald, and for the first 20 years of my adult life - I wasn't much of a traveler.

From the moment I graduated until I was 43 - I was perpetually stuck in the grind of work.

Whether saving for a house, the kids' future college expenses, a new car, retirement, or anything else...

There was always an excuse to put travels off another year.

Before I knew it - 20 years had passed and the only time we stamped our passports other than our honeymoon - was a family cruise our parents paid for.

Then, while going through a financial and personal rough-patch in life (including a divorce)...

a very good friend who was a pilot had also gone through a divorce and he gave me his extra buddy pass for a whole year!

I was able to fly standby for free, and whenever the kids were with their mom for more than 5 days at a time...

I Just Got Out Of Town.

Those solo trips allowed me to find the "me" I had lost during the marriage and I could finally imagine being happy again (whether or not I ever found a partner again.)

I then started sharing my passion for travel with my kids.

Whenever I had the kids during a school holiday - we Just Got Out Of Town.

Travel changed our relationship in ways we couldn't have imagined.

Frequently unplugging for travel improved my work life in ways no business or self-help books could have ever shown me.

(let's just say I learned the meaning of "you have to regularly un-plug so you can plug-in when it counts.")

But then my friend got engaged and had to give his extra buddy pass to his fiancé.

I was hooked on travel, but as a divorced dad building a new business and supporting two households - I couldn't afford to keep up my new addiction by traveling "the traditional way".

I read up on a ton of free travel-hacking methods, but the reason they are free is because they get paid fat commissions every time they convince you on getting a new credit card for the signup bonus.

I had zero interest in signing up for 10 or 20 new credit cards a year to earn enough to support my family's & my travel needs.

Fortunately - by being able to see behind the curtain of the airline and hotel industries during that previous year...

I learned that the seats I was able to fly on standby for free were because of something called "remnant space."

And guess what...

Remnant space exists for more than just people who work for the airlines.

It exists with both seats on planes as well as rooms in hotels.

Better yet - remnant space exists whether paying with points, or with cash!

*In fact - here's a pic from the first trip my kids and I took as "The 3 Musketeers" during one of their school breaks.

I paid less for that 6-day all-inclusive vacation than I'd have paid staying home and I didn't need any points or status whatsoever.

Contrary to what most people believe - I didn't have to go last-minute. I was able to book it nearly 3 months in advance!

Other times - I found even better deals using points.

You see - remnant space paid for with points are even better deals than when using cash. You can often find $1000 to $10,000 business & first-class seats that only take a few hundred dollars' worth of points!

So I didn't need anywhere near as many points as I used to think I needed.

*By the way - these are timeless strategies I've been using for over 12 years now.

Below is a more recent example using points.

This is a picture of two adjoining first-class suites on Singapore Airlines.

They call them "Singapore Suites", and it would have either cost $12,000 cash, or 800,000 to 1,200,000 points if I booked that flight "the traditional way".

But by using the exact same strategies I use to plan most of my vacations - My new bride & I booked our vacation around a deal that was available while my kids were with their Mom over Spring break.

Despite the $12,000 price tag... Despite the 800,000 to 1,200,000 points it would take to book that flight "the traditional way"

We booked it with nothing but 53,000 points ($530 worth of points) & $13 out-of-pocket.

The funny thing about these deals is that they're out there every day.

In fact - they're sitting there for the taking RIGHT NOW.

Here's a deal one of our friends, Mark, found to Turks & Caicos using one of the strategies in my book.

It was under $100 round-trip with no status or points whatsoever, and it was over a long holiday weekend two months from when he found it.

He told us and another family about it, and two months later - our 3 families were celebrating a long holiday weekend on an exotic beachfront villa none of us even dreamed we'd be able to afford under normal circumstances.

The only catch:

To get that price - we had to pull the kids from school the Tuesday after the holiday to get that rate.

So many people say they'll travel some day in the future, but there are unbelievably good deals sitting there under our noses RIGHT NOW.

As in...

Deals so good - it's more affordable to Just Get Out Of Town than stay home and dine-out a few times a week.

Some are a year from now...

some are last-minute...

and most of them are sitting there in the 1 to 11-months in-between.

Although those amazing deals sitting right there in plain sight, every day of the week...

they're buried among more than 1000 other "regular deals".

So when you plan a trip "the traditional way" - your odds of finding them are less than 1 in 1000.

*Which explains why most people NEVER even find a single one of those deals in their lives!

But...

Those deals are there for the taking every single day.

And when you have a strategy for seeking those deals out and then planning vacations around them...

You're GUARANTEED to be able to book a lower-cost vacation than what 95% of the traveling population will EVER find in their lives...

Not "every once in a while"...

Not just when you get lucky every 5th to 7th trip you book...

Every single time you plan a vacation The JGOOT Way.

Sometimes, in more luxurious flights & lodging than you ever thought could even be in the budget.