Life is too short to stay in one place!
We have completed an amazing year on the road and looking back we cannot believe what fun we had. What surprises us even more was how little we spent during our 365 days traveling around the world. As you know each month since we left we have been tracking our expenses and sharing them with [...]
July was a wonderful month of friends, good food, and saying a long goodbye to the United Kingdom. From a spending perspective we were helped tremendously by the kindness of great friends and people who trusted us to watch their homes while they were away. As a result, we did not spend anything on accomodations [...]
Big News: Thanks to all the wonderful feedback and ongoing questions we get from these monthly posts, we are excited to launch a new website focused on our spending while on this trip. The new site, RTW Expenses, will provide: More reports and charts detailing our expenses and giving you spreadsheet geeks out there (like me) [...]
May was rough on the budget and the figures clearly show it. We went way over budget after 7 straight months of doing so well, but of course it was to be expected when we landed in Europe. Starting in South America was a gentle way to slide into our long-term travel lifestyle and now [...]
There’s no such thing as a free ride. Well, actually, there is, but it would be pretty bland without a bar tab and fairly flinty without tipping the staff. For most of April we were on the M/S Expedition, a polar cruise ship owned by Gap Adventures, as the only passengers on a repositioning cruise [...]
Has it really been six months already? Time seems to pass much more slowly when you are saving money than when you are spending it! March was a good month for us financially because we paid for the Antarctica cruise out of a separate fund (we talked about this before). The first 8 days of [...]
February introduced our first country entry fees (thank you Argentina) as well as the start of our amazing Antarctica adventure (hence the delay in getting this post out). For the month we spent $2,240 but since there are only 28 days in February our daily average was the highest to date at $80. We actually [...]
With January we are getting the hang of life on the road. Sure it took 3+ months, but when something so new is started it is inevitable you need to ease into it. We started the month and 2011 in Ecuador and ended in Peru. While Peru is slightly more expensive (specifically in terms of [...]
December was our first full month of travel and away from the delights of free lodging and a kitchen. As as you will see below, our expenses clearly reflect this. Without the luxury of our own kitchen we ate out virtually every meal, yet our food expenses are only slightly higher than previously. This is [...]
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