Tag: Travel budget

  • Q&A The Cost Benefit Of Travel

    Q&A The Cost Benefit Of Travel

    I decided to change things up a bit and ask a bunch of questions of myself. As I sit on a terrace of a little cafĂ© in Athens, recording all our expenses, it gets me to thinking about costs versus benefits. I wonder if there is a way to reconcile the emotional gains we have…

  • Think like a beginner to find the best deals

    I’ve been planning, scheming, making lists, budgets and researching everything for months. I’m even having dreams, (some may call them nightmares), about details yet to be taken care of. One of the most difficult parts of the lead up process, to our big year away, is not having specific deadlines. There are so few restrictions…

  • Oops…found a major budget mistake!

    Oops…found a major budget mistake!

    “If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.”    -Dan Rather Before we started to seriously plan our 2017/18 travel year, I created a detailed budget as a proof of concept. I wanted to make sure the numbers added up and that…

  • A big year starts with a single booking

    A big year starts with a single booking

    A Big Trip! We are 4 people in our family. Me, the middle-aged mother and my husband. Our son, who is 15 years old, but will be 16 when we leave. Our daughter, who is 14. We live in beautiful British Columbia, Canada and will rent out our house on a one year lease. Sounds…