How to Travel Around the World
Do you have big dreams running through your head about traveling around the world? Is long-term travel something you are considering but don’t know where to start?
Planning an around the world trip can be an overwhelming experience. From figuring out your budget to designing your itinerary to packing your bags, there are so many things to consider.
We know what it is like. It’s exciting and terrifying and awesome all at the same time. It took us four years of discussion just to even make the decision to travel around the world. We know what a hard decision it can be.
From the planning phase to what it’s like to be on the road and then what it is like to finally come home, we have lots of information to share with you.
The Planning Phase
Around the World Itinerary: 13 Months & 35 Countries
In 2014 and 2015, we spent 13 months traveling around the world. If you are considering long-term travel and need some inspiration, or just want to find out what we did, here is our around the world itinerary. An Overview of Our Around the World Trip Duration: 13 months, 396 daysCountries visited: 35Continents: 5Distance traveled: […]
How Much Does It Cost to Travel Around the World?
One of the most popular questions we get asked is how much does it cost to travel around the world. This was our biggest question too, before we decided to take a big trip like this. It costs a lot less than you probably think. Traveling long term, several months or longer, costs a lot […]
Our Around the World Packing List
One of the most common questions we get from people is “how do you pack for a trip around the world?” Prior to our around the world trip, purchasing gear was one of the most time intensive and important things we did. Tim and I made numerous trips to REI and placed many online orders […]
How to Design an Around the World Itinerary
With everything that goes into planning a long-term trip, designing your around the world itinerary is the fun part. This is when dreaming of far off places becomes a reality. Do you want to travel to London, Bangkok, the Great Barrier Reef, or Machu Picchu? On an around the world itinerary, you can visit them […]
RTW Ticket vs. One Way Tickets, Which One is Better?
If you are planning to travel around the world, you have two options for booking your flights: a RTW ticket or a series of one-way tickets. Both options have pros and cons, with the main factors being cost and flexibility. If you will be traveling around the world, don’t automatically assume that you need to […]
On the Road
Curious about what it’s really like to travel long-term? Here are some of our posts written during our around the world trip.
A Typical Day for the Earth Trekkers
Recently, I have gotten a lot of questions about what a typical day is like for us. That is a little difficult to answer, as no day is ever the same. Having every day be different is one of the things that makes travel so exciting. Note: This post was written in 2015 during our […]
365 Days of Travel in 100 Photos
This is a recap of the first 12 months of our trip around the world. So, here we are, 32 countries visited, 365 days of travel, and thousands of memories made. Here is a recap of our year, shown with our 100 favorite photos. In no particular order at all, here are some of our best […]
One Year Around the World
As I write this, I am on the airplane, taking our final flight from Los Angeles to New York City. This is a very hard post to write, one that I have thought about for months, one that I knew I would have to write, and one that I have not looked forward to. As […]
Worst Travel Moments While Going Around The World
It’s a fact of life that things go wrong. In thirteen months of travel, it is unavoidable to have a few minor disasters along the way, even with proper planning and taking precautions to keep yourself healthy. Fortunately for us, the things that went wrong weren’t too terrible, although at the time we may have […]
Around the World Travel as a Family: Your Questions, Answered
Since being home, we get tons of questions about our travels when we get together with friends and family or we meet someone new who knows about our story. Here are all of our commonly asked questions, answered. “What Was Your Favorite Place?” This is always the first question someone asks. We’ve been to a […]
Coming Home
It can be hard to imagine what it is like, coming home, when you are still in the planning phase of this awesome adventure. But, for most people, coming home is inevitable. Read about what it was like for us.
So, What’s It Like Returning to the USA?
With just one week remaining of our 396 day journey around the world, how are feeling about finally returning to the USA? Honestly, we are ready to come home. We are actually looking forward to it, which I would have found hard to imagine just a few months ago.The four of us are exhausted…this traveling […]
One Year Later…
This post was written in July 2016, one year after returning home from our trip around the world. It has been one year since we took that final bus journey from NYC to Maryland. One momentous, lightning fast year, full of readjustments, new beginnings, and plans for our future. Not a day goes by that […]
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
– T.S. Eliot