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Our success in making our round-the-world-trip happen depends not only on our ability to save money before the trip but also our ability to be frugal and maximize our budget during the trip. For the eight months that we’ll be away, we’re planning to operate on a budget of $1500 per person per month, which I [...]

When talking about our upcoming round-the-world trip, one of the first things many people ask is how we manage to save for a round-the-world trip while living in an expensive city and after my being laid off. So today and in the following weeks, I’ll be posting about some of the budgetary measures J and [...]

We’re just a couple of weeks away from 2012, and lo and behold, even with the setbacks we are actually right on schedule with our round-the-world trip planning! I’m determined to stay on pace since there’s so much to do and the months leading up to the actual trip will be hectic even without the [...]

Lately it feels like I’m in a planning lull for my round-the-world trip. That’s not to say I’m not getting anything done, because I am. But I’m knee deep in all of the obligatory topics that need to be addressed but are completely unsatisfying to accomplish. It was initially fun selecting our destinations and creating [...]

Yesterday marked 8 months until the beginning of our round-the-world trip! So close yet so far. Right now we’re just doing a lot of research and planning, and the hope is that by January we’ll have most of the information we need so from then until July, all we’ll need to do is execute the [...]