Just about everybody ought to know about AirBNB. I’m about to blow your mind for taking cheap trips when you combine AirBNB with Skyscanner.

Skyscanner is a flight booking website. It is one of the top 5 most used sites that Google pops up when I open my phone.

Skyscanner lets you search for flights and look at prices a whole month at a time. You say, I want to go to Sacramento from Guadalajara, and I want to leave in April, and it will show you a calendar with the lowest price available for each day, with the cheapest days in green.

Just look at the near 50% higher price you’d pay if you had traveled on Sunday the 21st instead of leaving on the 20th. Sometimes the difference is hundreds of dollars! And that’s not even the coolest feature.

Skyscanner also lets you leave the destination as “Everywhere” and see a ranked list of the cheapest places to go.

You can see that I can fly to some other city in Mexico for as little as $26. I can fly to the cheapest US city for $99. Then when I click on United States, I see every US city listed in order of cheapest.

What does that effectively mean? It means that if you combine these two features, you can actually find incredibly cheap travel, as long as you don’t care exactly when you leave, and even more so if you’re flexible about where to go.

When I booked my flight to Europe, I didn’t really care where I landed, or what city I flew home from. I’m going to travel around Europe. I just wanted to fly into and out of a city I felt like seeing, that was as cheap as possible. I got a flight from Sacramento to London for about $250, and a flight back from Zurich for $330. That’s $580 round trip with, actually, a number of self-imposed restrictions. I did know I wanted to go to Europe, and I wanted my flight back to be somewhat close to Munich, right after Oktoberfest.

Right now, if I want to travel from Los Angeles in September, and I truly don’t care where I go or exactly what day I leave, how cheap can I travel?

Damn, Mexico for $70. Canada for $87. Even Colombia on a different continent for $155.

And do you know how cheap it is once you get to Colombia?!

If you don’t know how cheap it is, that’s where AirBNB comes in.

Now some people are going to say there are even cheaper ways to travel than AirBNB, like hostels. Hostels aren’t for everyone. My mom ain’t staying in no hostel.

So, while you’re looking at the cheap places you could fly to on Skyscanner, you simultaneously open AirBNB. There, you search all over the world. Simply select Homes as what you’re searching for, and then start putting in criteria. I suggest renting “Entire Home”, “SuperHost”, then putting in any amenities you definitely require. If you’re down with just having a private room or lesser accommodations, you’ll find even more, cheaper options.

SuperHosts are people who have stellar reviews, usually seem to manage multiple properties, and pretty much go above and beyond. If you choose Entire Home and SuperHost, you’re almost guaranteed a nice stay. Always double check the specific star rating the apartment has for Location. Location is one of the most important parts of a great AirBNB, so make sure that location is maxed out. Check out the other subcategories. Also, make sure you read the reviews to find out more about the place.

As you add criteria, the number of AirBNB’s that fit will go down, but you’ll be able to find tons of locations all over the world for under $20 per night. Use these tools to book travel to wherever is cheapest and cool. You will find it is cheaper to fly somewhere exotic and spend three weeks hanging out there than to stay in Los Angeles, eat out twice a day, get coffee once, and go out once on the weekend.

If this post encourages you to take an impromptu trip, don’t keep it to yourself. Leave a comment.