The World Trip is ON!
The decision was made! We are leaving on a 6 months around the world trip. Vacating our apartment, selling and donating most of the things we own. The rest we are putting in storage for now. We have discussed travel, world schooling, remote work and digital nomads lifestyle concepts with my spouse for a couple of years now. After we sold a property we owned in February of last year the idea of us trying these concepts out started to shape into reality.
I have resigned from my 6 figure paying job recently and will be contributing only as a consultant in the future. My 7 year old son got a go ahead from his Montessori school principal. They were very accepting and apparently we are not the first family to do this. They are keeping his spot for grade 3. He will learn way more on this trip than his peers will in class for sure.
Our plan so far is to Visit 40 cities in 22 countries for a total travel of 57884 km / 35969 miles
World Trip map:
Insurance
After some research we have purchased travel insurance from World Nomads. Their price and coverage seems to be the best for the type of travel we will be doing. The cost for our world trip for 6 months came to around $900.
Flights
We have primarily used the following websites to find and purchase flights:
Accommodation
We did book some hotels, but most of our accommodation was booked trough AirBnB. If you haven't signed for an AirBnB account yet, you can get $30 towards your travel by using this link: http://www.airbnb.ca/c/aentcheva.World Trip Finances
Still cash is the best option in most countries around the world, but bringing a lot of cash with you is not practical for many reasons that I will not get into for the purposes of this post. Here is how we prepared to meet our financial needs on this trip and minimize to almost 0 any expenses related to currency conversion or other transaction fees.- No foreign transaction fees
- 2% cash back spent on Amazon
- 1% cash back spent anywhere else
- No fees for daily chequing transactions
- Free access to 3,500 ABMs on the Scotiabank Network
- Free Tangerine Email Money Transfers
- Great interest rates
- Automatic Savings Program (ASP)
- Earn 2.40% interest
- Use this key to get $50 when you open a new account: 47860563S1
- I can spent my investment in physical Gold with this credit card
- No documents required
- Register online
- Load your card instantly
- Switch between bitcoin and standard currencies
- Accepted worldwide
World Trip Accessories
Here are some accessories that we thought are a must have for our trip and purchased in advance.- UV protective clothing
- Pictek Action Camera, Waterproof WIFI
- Universal Waterproof Phone Case
- Anker PowerCore 20000 with Quick Charge
- Incognito Anti-Mosquito Spray
- Sea-Band Child Wrist Band
- EarPlanes® for Kids 3 Pair
- USB Travel Power Strip with 8 International Adapters
- Wanderluxe Microfiber Towel
- SteriPen Classic 3 UV Water Purifier
- Seaview 180 Degree Panoramic Snorkel Mask
I would like to go on a trip someday. Good luck and lots of photos. I follow you to see the photos you take. 😎
PS: Excellent books.
Thank You. Will try to do one post from each location.
Sounds like the experience of a lifetime. I hope you'll update us with some travel posts along the way.
Thanks, I will post as much as I can.
My fiancee and I are planning to do something similar to this at some point in our lives but it would be a more permanent lifestyle. Purchase a big sailboat and live on it while sailing around the world and visiting everywhere.
Good luck and enjoy.
Thank You! Actually one of the reasons we are going on this trip is to figure out if this could be our permanent lifestyle. We are going to try world schooling and remote work during this 6 months of travel and see how it will work out.