Admittedly traveling has been different than we expected. But that again that is to be expected right? The weird thing is that the more we travel the more we know that we aren’t seeing even a fraction of what is out there. Since we don’t have any set travel plans our “plan” is constantly changing. Recently we’ve been thinking more and more about our general trek around the world, realizing that we can’t see the whole world the way we want in two years.
Our goals for the trek are simple: take a long and serious break from our careers to make a difference in our lives and the world, go places and do things that we’ll probably never be able …

Part 3 in the series on our decision, our saving and our spending. Missed parts one and two?
  
So we made the decision to travel and saved the money, but how we’re going to make that money last is probably more important than how we saved it in the first place. It should be obvious by now that we will not be staying at 5-star resorts, but we do still plan to enjoy ourselves. I think when it comes to spending money while traveling there are three main categories: lodging, food, and transportation.
 
Let’s talk about food first, since that is probably the easiest to explain. Eating out three meals a day is simply not an option, both from a fiscal and …

Part 2 on how we’ve made this a reality. For Part 1 – The Decision – Click here.
One of the first things people ask us about the trip is how much we’ve saved. More important than the answer to that question is how we’ve saved. In my last post I talked about the decision to take this trip but more than a decision, it was the setting of a goal.

When I graduated from undergrad I had approximately $50k in student loans, when Jillian graduated a year later she had even more. It was a tremendous amount of money and far more than we have saved for the trip even now. To deal with it all …

Part 1 in a three part series on how we’ve made this a reality!
Junior year of college I studied abroad in Cost Rica and Guatemala. In Guatemala, I joined with a travel group that consisted of volunteerism, Spanish instruction, and a few other activities. Due to unfortunate circumstances, one night I found myself on a bus in the middle of the night leaving the group behind- off to Guatemala City I went. At that point in time I didn’t know what I was going to do once I stepped off the bus. I didn’t know where I would go. I didn’t know what would happen. At that point in time, I was a traveler for the first time in my …