Category: Budget
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Week #48 ~ Recap
1,232 driving miles, 1,058 flight miles, two flights, 18 relatives, 2 family friends, 1 metro ride, 1 graduation party, 1 friend moving to the coast, 3 states, $948 OVER budget. We have missed our people and this week was full of reconnecting, telling stories, and hanging out at the tables of relatives and friends. We…
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Week #45 ~ Recap
867 miles driving, 3 states, 3 National Parks, 2 hotel rooms, 2 campsites, 3 nights of freezing temperatures, 1 museum, $19.50 under budget. As our friend Susan says, “Geological time includes now”, and this week we got to experience the slow tick of geologic time by witnessing some of the most beautiful results of those…
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Week #44 ~ Recap
2,389 miles, 1 day at sea on the boat, 1 flight, 1 surprise birthday dinner, 2 national parks, 2 states, 1 official circumnavigation of the globe, 3 nights hosted by amazing and generous friends, $564 over budget. Whew! That’s a big week ~ even for us. We were glad to get off the boat and…
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Week #43 ~ Recap
7 more days on the cruise ship, approximately 24 hours of studying for Erin and 100 hours of re-reading “Game of Thrones” for Marla, 4 workouts in the gym, 1 cousins dinner in Honolulu, and approximately 6,000 steps per day going from our room to various activities around the ship. We have no idea how…
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Week #40 ~ Recap
1,340 miles, 1 flight, 1 family of four hosting us at their amazing home, 1 ferry ride, 1 apple orchard, 2 wine tastings, 1 koala, 1 harborside AirB&B, 1 kookaburra, 2 beautiful oceanside strolls, 1 haircut, $341.77 UNDER budget. From Adelaide to Auckland, this part of the trip has been A+! Apples, grapes, wine, ocean,…
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Week #39 ~ Recap
621 miles, 4 campsites, 10,000 videos of amazing waves & rock formations, 100s of pesky cockatoos, 10 sitings of brilliantly colored native birds, 1 flock of Emus, 1 wine tasting, 4 friends from home, 1 flock of sheep, $298.92 OVER budget. The budget overage is still associated to renting the campervan–but we definitely felt like…
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Week #37 ~ Recap
4,852 miles, 2 flights, 3 countries, 2 hemispheres, 2 oceans, 1 floating market, $1,010 OVER budget. The recap numbers this week are crazy! For those of your keeping track, our weeks go from Friday to Thursday since we landed in Bangkok on a Friday. Our last day at the Bamboo EcoVillage in Can Tho was…
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Week #36 ~ Recap
354 miles, 2 flights, 1 museum, 1 temple, 1 bamboo circus in the opera house, 2 boat rides, 1 crawl through a VietCong tunnel, 1 hammock hang after lunch, 1 Eco Village homestay and approximately $102 UNDER budget. This week was a mixture of war sites/museums and modern tourist attractions. From a beachside resort on…
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Week #35 ~ Recap
1271 miles, 3 flights, 2 beaches, 15 waterwheels, 1 bike ride, 1 “farming” experience, 1 cooking class, 3 amusing tourist attractions, 5 days of wearing our coats for warmth, $120.58 OVER budget. How is it that we are so close to the end of our stay in Vietnam?! We started the week in Northern Vietnam…
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Week #34 ~ Recap
1,059 miles, 2 countries, 1 flight, 1 capital city, 1 cruise, 1 nature preserve, 1 bike ride, 1 water puppet show, 500 pictures taken of amazing scenery, UNDER budget $80.43. This week included our last day of touring in Siem Reap, travel to Hanoi by plane and much driving from Hanoi to Ha Lan Bay…