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Expenses: Asia, NZ, South America

May 11, 2009August 30, 2017 by allison

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 …

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Expenses: Africa

December 17, 2008August 30, 2017 by allison

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 …

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Getting Ready

Wield Ultimate Packing Power

September 29, 2008June 13, 2021 by jonathan

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 …

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Europe & The Middle East

Expenses: Europe & The Middle East

August 27, 2008August 30, 2017 by allison

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.

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Getting Ready

What on earth are we bringing?

April 26, 2008August 30, 2017 by allison

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 …

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Getting Ready

Divesting ourselves…

April 26, 2008August 30, 2017 by allison

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 …

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Getting Ready

Ticket Buying and Route Planning

April 13, 2008August 30, 2017 by allison

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 …

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Getting Ready

Who, What, When, Where, Why & How?

April 13, 2008August 30, 2017 by allison

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, …

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