I'd love to say we've been planning this trip all our lives, but that wouldn't be true. Our current context and current situation lead us to take this amazing idea into a reality. We don't have kids, we are "young", and we have the time to do this.
Most common question we've had since declaring our job independence and commitment to travel the world are:
How did you came up with this plan? How long did it took you to plan it?
To be honest, it took one conversation and 2 months planning. It just made so much sense that we were hands on from day one.
To be honest, it took one conversation and 2 months planning. It just made so much sense that we were hands on from day one.
How do you start planning a round the world trip?
First we went into Google maps and started pining every single place we wanted to see and places where we knew we could have an experience (ie. Swim with sharks, or hike a trail, or witness the Aurora Borealis, etc.)
Then we created a "one year calendar" (that later evolved into a 14 month calendar) with every season of those places we wanted to be in; We included color coding to determine if they were the best season to be in or to be avoided. Also, we had an extra layer with activities available that month per country.
That excel sheet lead us to a kind of trail, something started shaping more clearly in terms of where we wanted to start and direction we would take.
First we went into Google maps and started pining every single place we wanted to see and places where we knew we could have an experience (ie. Swim with sharks, or hike a trail, or witness the Aurora Borealis, etc.)
Then we created a "one year calendar" (that later evolved into a 14 month calendar) with every season of those places we wanted to be in; We included color coding to determine if they were the best season to be in or to be avoided. Also, we had an extra layer with activities available that month per country.
That excel sheet lead us to a kind of trail, something started shaping more clearly in terms of where we wanted to start and direction we would take.
How do you budget for such a trip?
Well a little research in Google showed a lot of blogs of couples traveling the world including daily budgets. We got an idea on prices.
Continuing expanding our nerd excel sheet and in order to ground our expectations we went deep into booking.com and airbnb and started sensing prices to stay on all these places.
Finally we defined a top gap of spending and tried to define a budget daily not to go over.
As we haven't start the trip I cannot tell you of this works or if it only looks beautiful in paper.
Well a little research in Google showed a lot of blogs of couples traveling the world including daily budgets. We got an idea on prices.
Continuing expanding our nerd excel sheet and in order to ground our expectations we went deep into booking.com and airbnb and started sensing prices to stay on all these places.
Finally we defined a top gap of spending and tried to define a budget daily not to go over.
As we haven't start the trip I cannot tell you of this works or if it only looks beautiful in paper.
Why Edamame Trip?
Its a private joke between us. :)
