Budgeting for travel

At least once a month I’ll get an e-mail or blog comment from a reader asking for help in estimating travel expenses for this country or that. Like “How much should I budget for three months in Thailand and Vietnam?” To me that feels like asking a psychiatrist that you’ve never met how to save …

If you never seem to have enough money for travel but a billion other people on the planet do, what’s wrong with this picture? Why don’t you have a travel budget that can pay for your vacations? It probably means that something else is a bigger priority. After all, a travel budget is simply a …

 If you’re setting out for a round-the-world trip, an extended sabbatical, or the nomad life, you might want to pad that budget a bit to account for all the unexpected expenses you weren’t counting on. Otherwise, the nasty surprises could mean your money will run out before your trip plans do. Let’s say you’ve done …

“Have I saved enough money for my trip around the world for a year?” “How much will an around the world trip cost per month? Back when few people could work remotely and even fewer Americans were traveling around the world for a year, I used to get questions like this on a weekly basis. …

Are you using your freedom to travel, or are you pinned down by chains of your own making? Have you become a creature of habit, a man of routine, a predictable woman? Do all those travel dreams of yours keep getting pushed further and further back? What if you set a deadline for travels, like …