Greyhound's loyalty program: Road Rewards

Greyhound bus has a pretty awesome loyalty program, the only downside being you have to ride Greyhound buses. Ha I kid, I kid. Or do I?

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OK anyway, you can check it out here, so I won't bore you with what's already clearly on the website. What it means, though, as far as I can tell, is that you could take 8 short/cheap round trips, even as a daily commute (for example, 45ish minutes between Delaware and Philadelphia), and then get a free round trip ticket across the country for you and a free companion. Not sure if you can stack the companion award on top of the free ticket like that, but the fine print never says you can't. So you could theoretically take 16 one-way $10 trips and then get a free trip across the country for you and a pal, round trip (worth maybe $300-400 per person), which is awesome as long as you don't mind being on the bus for like 30 hours. Or you could go somewhere else closer. Whatever tickles your fancy. Pretty awesome though! Points all expire after 1 year though, so I've never gotten that far. I have gotten the companion pass at the lower levels, though! Pretty neato.

So you wanna get across the US...

So you heard about some sweet travel deals on the coasts (WowAir's Valentine's Day $69 flight sale from San Francisco to London or Norwegian's just-announced $65 flights from the East coast to Scotland and Ireland, for example), and now you gotta get there. Now, each airport has different requirements regarding public transit, and I'm not going to go into that too much. Here is a basic guide on some ways you can get across America on the cheap, roughly rated from cheapest to least cheap.

NORWEGIAN $65 TRANSATLANTIC US -> UK/IRELAND FLIGHTS ARE ON!!!!

HO MY GAWD YOU GUYS, NORWEGIAN HAS FINALLY RELEASED THEIR $65 TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHTS!!!!!!!!!!!!

WowAir Valentines $69 sale US to Europe all through 2017

Check out this awesome $69 flight sale between the US and Europe, with flights from all of WowAir's hubs (including San Francisco, Boston, Miami, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Berlin, and more). All round trips include a free stopover in Iceland, too. This will probably sell out very quickly. Get on it! Note that all of their flights to/from the US are fully refundable within 24 hours of booking, so you can buy now and think later! But like, think within the next 23 hours.