Packing. It’s hard enough to plan ahead and pack for a weekend trip away, but when we started thinking about what to bring on our year-long trip, it was pretty overwhelming. Whenever we tell people that we are only bringing one backpack each, usually their eyes get big in disbelief and then the questions start […]
After we started discussing our desire to travel the world, the next question that immediately came up was “How can we afford it?” Was it realistic to think we could do something like this? It took a lot of research, a conscious effort to cut back on our spending and ramp up our saving, and […]
We get asked all the time, “How can you afford to take a year off to travel?” Since there isn’t a simple, straight-forward answer to that question, we usually end up stumbling through a brief response with statements like “Well, we’ve been saving for a while…” or “We’re traveling on a tight budget…” In reality, […]
It was a few years ago that we really started to consider the possibility of taking an extended trip. We were in the middle our 12-day vacation to Hawaii in 2013, having an incredible time relaxing, exploring, and eating our way across multiple islands when the conversation came up – Where should we head next? […]
Where Are We Now?
New York, NY