In the span of one year, 20-year-old college student Jamie Woods will stamp her passport with visits to Hawaii, England and Spain — and spend more money than she ever has before on travel.

Woods, a Family Science major at University of Maryland College Park, leaves for her vacation in England with friends on December 29. “I spent a long time figuring out what would be cheapest, looking up airlines in Europe, maybe trying to fly to one place and then another,” she said. “Whatever would have been the cheapest way to get there.”