Hello to all my fellow money savers out there. My name is Dreama and welcome to Barter and Shake.   Barter and Shake came about from a long and storied beginning.  No it didn’t!   It is a domain name that we bought long ago for some reason.  Possibly to make a business that was centered around bartering rather than buying or paying for services.  The idea was sound but the ability to put it into practice was not.  The domain name sat around gathering dust for a few years.

Now a little about me and the family, my husband and I have talked about traveling more and now that the kids are getting older and leaving the nest one by one we can do this. This blog is going to follow our traveling and eating adventures and how to do it by being frugal.   Not everyone is into traveling but just about everyone is into eating.  This is also going to follow how we are going to transition from having jobs to making money and living off of our passion for life.

I will be the one that plans the trips, including hotels, activities, where we will eat, and the main blogger. I will be sharing the good and the bad (hopefully there will not be many bad) of every trip.

This is my husband Joel, he will be the awesome photographer and chauffeur, as well as blogging with me.  He loves photography and will be taking and displaying pictures of our adventures.

As we are getting older we have discovered that we want life to be a journey and not a destination.  Every day that we wait to get going on that journey is a day that is wasted.