Budget Once you know where and for how long you want to travel for, the next planning task that needs to be nailed down is a budget. Some may argue that this should be the first step in the planning process however it's pretty hard to set a budget if you don't know what you want to do! The way we came up with our budget was to use some of my past travels as a guideline. Here are some general criteria to set.Level of accommodation requiredLevel of dining req...

We have been super busy driving from one place to another and visitng many great family members!!! The following is the chronological order of what we have been up to in the last two weeks: - LA: The total time to get to LA from our place on Caye Caulker Island was over 18 hours. This included a water taxi, a regular half broken taxi, 2 flights, a shuttle bus and the ride in our rental car. The only things we wanted to do on our first day in LA were: Laundry (A...

This will be a multi part post on how to come up with a plan to travel the world for the long term. Hopefully this will provide people with a framework which they can use to realize their own travel dreams. Why Travel For The Long Term? Before going into how we planned for this trip I'd like to first share some of my own thoughts on long term travel, careers and life in general.Family and good friends will always be in touchAt work, no one is irriplaceabl...

So Yasi and I have been very busy the last week or so which means the blog has been a little neglected. We are now in Monterray but before we talk about the US I'll finish off Belize. We spent another couple days in Caye Caulker but moved to another "resort" up the beach for a change of scenery. I joked with Yasi that we would be staying in the "Honeymoon suite" which was the most expensive cabin on the beach. In this case, most expensive was $65/night! We even ...

I thought I'd write an entry with the things that have amused or surprised us on the trip so far. I'm sure we will have many more of these over our time away: - happy hour in some south beach restaurants was from 10 am to 10 pm. Happy hour in belize is 4-9 pm. Happy hour seems to be a huge deal no matter where we are! We got double rum and cokes for $2.50 a couple of nights ago!! - at night, key west bars were pack with loud drunken 40-60 year olds. Guess it wa...