ONE YEAR HOPPING AROUND THE WORLD ON AN EXPERIMENT IN TRAVELING EVERY WHICH WAY.
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We Built a Casa in Mexico!
The last few years have been full of adventures, changes, successes, failures, and – probably more than anything else – challenges. If you've been following along, you know we took a yearlong sabbatical to travel the world, and then decided to make it a...
How To Spend A Week in Oaxaca, Mexico
Photos by Josh Meister Photo. We've now been living in Mexico for about eight months and had yet to travel very far – a big change from how we were living before we moved here! Oaxaca city had been at the top of my list for a while now, so we decided to spend a week...
Best Day Trips Out of Oaxaca City
Photos by Josh Meister Photo. Oaxaca is an amazing and colorful city. We spent just over a week there, eating, shopping, and exploring. Check it out here. We also took a couple of day trips outside the city. There's a lot of options for places to go and ways to get...
what do you want to know?
When we told people we were taking a year-long round-the-world trip, we immediately get peppered with some version of the following questions: How can you afford that?, Where are you going?, and How do you pack for that? If you’d like to know the answers to any of those questions, read on below!
THE WORLD IS A BIG, BIG PLACE
When we decided to take this trip, we bought a giant fold-out wall map, spread it out on our dining room table, and started calling out all the places we wanted to go. When we attempted to break down the first 4 months of our trip, the European portion, into how much time could be spent in each location, we had approximately 72 hours in 22 different places. Um, clearly that wasn’t going to work. See where we (literally) landed.
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how the f*ck DID we afford this trip?
This is one of our favorite topics, mainly because we weren’t totally positive ourselves! Okay, that’s not exactly true, but it was a bit of a moving target. Paying for this trip was a mixture of several things including: diligent and aggressive saving, “trickery” saving (not as devious as it sounds), travel hacking, working for accommodations, and some freelancing while traveling. Read more to see how we attempted to be as transparent as possible with budgets and spending throughout the trip.
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packing is the most stressful thing ever!
The hardest question was What shoes are you taking? It doesn’t seem that tough, but when you’ve got to fit a year’s wardrobe (for different climates and types of activities, mind you) into essentially the space of an oversized lunchbox, shoes are a touchy subject. We made some tough decisions and edits – and some super awesome finds! – and you can view (and judge) our packing lists for yourself.
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