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Then you must pick a destination (or two) and start doing some research - watch for cheap flights - or at least know how to recognize them, look into neighborhoods or activities you'd like to do - Oh and get your passport up to date, so you can leave at a moments notice.

Like all things they can be done extravegantly or on the cheap. We did very well dining in Tokyo but spent more on lodging. In Paris our lodging was cheap, but we spent big on food - sometimes. Of course your dollar will go really far traveling in the third world. We lived like Kings in our stay in Peru, and it hardly cost us anything.