Well, we are back in Canada! Can you believe that a year went by so fast? I certainly can’t. Over the next week or two we are going to have a series of posts with lots of statistics about our trip – including the $64,000 question. This post is the third of three posts about …
Tag: planning
Expenses: Africa
Back due to popular demand (or my shear dorkiness)… in order of cheapest to most expensive countries… here is our budget breakdown for Africa! Please see my Expenses: Europe and the Middle East post for information about how to understand these posts! Uganda (17 days) $35 PPPD Visas $109 Accommodation $253 $7 Transport $255 $8 …
Wield Ultimate Packing Power
Fuelled by delicious K2,000 ($0.70 CAD) espresso from a magical place called Wonderbake in downtown Livingstone (Zambia), I decided to pen a deeper contemplation on what we’ve been hauling around the world. I’m not going to run through the basics—Allison covered that at the start of our trip; I’m going to touch on our rarely …
Expenses: Europe & The Middle East
For those of you who are interested in such things (namely, money) this is the first of several posts providing some statistics regarding just how much it costs for two people to travel around the world for a year. We will do a similar post after we leave each continent.
What on earth are we bringing?
I have learnt both from experience and from hours of procrastinating while reading travel sites that packing a backpack is both a science and an art. Travel Independent has an excellent list of what you actually need when you carry your life on your back – I also have taken great joy in the preparations …
Divesting ourselves…
I just finished my last exam of my student career (at least for the forseeable future) and I am feeling a little weird about that. Rather than being incredibly excited I am eerily calm about the whole thing. After three years, thousands of dollars, and hours and hours of work I thought that this would …
Ticket Buying and Route Planning
So much goes into planning a trip like this, and rather than studying for Professional Responsibility I am going to share the mountain of information I have acquired during the planning phase! Purchasing a ticket planning the route goes hand in hand so I am going to deal with them together in this blog post. Before looking …
Who, What, When, Where, Why & How?
Welcome to our travel blog! It is a work in progress for the next two weeks but Jon was willing to get something up and running so I could start blogging! We are about to leaveon a year long adventure around the globe and this (longish) entry will answer the Who, What, Where, When, Why, …