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      <title><![CDATA[You Don't Need a Booking Site to Price a Trip]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Booking sites want exact dates before they show you a price. To start saving for a trip, you only need a rough timeframe and a rough cost. Here's how the phases of trip planning actually work.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Every Generation Pays for Travel Differently. The Best Way Uses All of Them.]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Boomers paid cash. Gen X saved miles. Millennials chased points. Gen Z financed it. Each one works, each one costs something, and they all fit in one Stack.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Give the Night in Lisbon, Not the Sweater]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Every year the people who love you spend real money on things you did not want. Meanwhile the trip you keep talking about sits unfunded. Here is what happens when the two finally meet.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Countries-Visited Meme Has Been Waiting for a Platform]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Count and map every country you've visited on a shareable Stax Passport. The Letterboxd of travel. One link that shows every stamp on your travel résumé.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Most people write off the dream trip before pricing it. Here's a fast way to check what a trip actually costs. Often the number is smaller than you think.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Travelmaxxing Is Not What the Trend Thinks It Is]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Forbes calls travelmaxxing the art of squeezing every drop from a trip. That's half of it. Funding the trip is where most people stall.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Your Travel Identity Has Nowhere to Live]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Letterboxd for movies. Strava for runs. But the trips you've actually taken? They live on a cork globe in your basement. Here's a shareable home for them.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why Travel Deserves Its Own Savings System]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Retirement got 401(k)s. Emergency funds got HYSAs. Travel got a tag in Mint. Here's why travel deserves its own savings infrastructure.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[After 8 years at AWS and 5 weeks in Southeast Asia, I saw the gap between trips people talk about and the ones they take. The Stax founder story.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Travel Savings Gap Nobody Talks About]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Retirement got 401(k)s. Emergencies got HYSAs. Travel got a tag in a budgeting app. Here's what a purpose-built travel savings app finally looks like.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[How Family Trip Funding Actually Works (And Why It's Still So Awkward)]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Family and friends want to help fund your trips. The intent was always there. The mechanism was not. Here's what modern trip funding actually looks like.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why You Can't Save for Travel — It's Not What You Think]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The personal finance world says budget harder and stay disciplined. Interviews with real travelers point to a different problem. Infrastructure, not willpower.]]></description>
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