One of the hardest things once we decided to travel for a year was figuring out how in the world to pack. We want enough stuff that we have everything we need but not too much that we kill ourselves lifting our bags up every day. Since we are going to a wide range of different climates and doing some outdoor activities like hiking, we need a few very specific items. So here is my female long term carry on packing list!
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Preparing for A Year of Travel
This post is dedicated to all the things that we did in preparation for our one year of travel. It’s important to know that we didn’t just decide a few days before leaving that we were going to quit our jobs and travel. We spent a significant amount of time planning and executing so we could make our dream into a reality. The purpose of this post is to show that it takes planning and preparation for a long term trip like this. There are so many things that you can and have to do for this type of decision. Here we break down when we did things while preparing for a year of travel and then a little bit more into what it was like.
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Once we decided to travel for a year one of the most important parts we had to figure out was can we actually afford to travel for such a long time. Whenever we tell someone new “yeah we quit our jobs and we’re going to travel for the next year” their first remark is always something along the lines of “how in the world are you able to afford that?”. In this post we’re going to go over the main ways that we plan to afford a year of travel as well as things we have done to help us cut costs.
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Planning a year’s worth of travel can be a huge task depending on the type of traveler that you are. Some people may just go with the flow and figure it out along the way and others will try to cram as much as possible into a tight schedule. We fall somewhere in the middle of those two methods. The difficulties pop up when you take into account visa limits, rainy vs. dry seasons, and specific things we want to do in certain places. In this post we explain how we planned a year of travel and all the things we thought about in order to make the rough outline that we have. Make sure to read some of our tips for planning travel at the end!
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If you read our Why We’re Traveling for a Year post we shared why we want to travel for such a long time and some background on how this decision came to be. In this post we go through why we quit our 9-5 jobs to travel for a year and dive a little more into why we think now is the time to do this.
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