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how much does it cost to travel around the world? (January 2011 tally)

Jan 11 expense breakdown

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 [...]

One year and counting…

Ecuadorian Amazon Red-Lored Parrot (photo by Crispin Swan via Flickr)

This is it!  We are now one year exactly from our departure date to Ecuador, the first stop on the big trip.  It is hard to believe that it is so close, and we still have so much to do. At the end of each year I like to take an inventory of what has [...]

Putting yourself out there

This month marks one year since we made the decision to leave our jobs and chart a new course on life.  We started this blog to document our planning process in hopes it could help future couples thinking about a similar adventure.  As the year progressed we had many discussions on how much to put [...]

Joy of counting down

calendar crossed off days

Today marks 400 days until we leave on our trip around the world.  Yes, it sounds like a ridiculously long time away to be marking as a milestone, but I just love to count down to events.  Plus, when you consider I started the countdown when there were over 700 days to go you will [...]

I never noticed this before, but…

Art Car by L. Marie via Flickr

When we first decided to take this trip a year ago, we didn’t know anyone who had done it.  Oh sure, there were famous travelers like Tim Ferriss and Rolf Potts, but not anyone we actually knew or could relate to. We started our blog partly because we couldn’t find the information we needed to [...]

So you want to go around the world?

Making the decision to travel around the world was, for us, a wonderfully liberating experience.  Betsy has done a lot of wonderful writing on how we reached that moment and feelings since then.  For me, the morning after started with a litany of questions and mountains of research possibilities. After taking a couple days just [...]

I plan, therefore I am

I am a Planner and not just in the sense that I love to plan. In truth I honest to goodness (who talks this way?) have the title Product Planner for software company here in the Seattle area. They actually pay me for the opportunity to look 3-5 years out and determine what functionality and [...]