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How to say goodbye to your things

by Brian on December 5, 2011 in How To, Planning and Prep

There is no avoiding it. If you want to hit the road fulltime you have to learn to travel light. If you dream of backpacking around the globe, plan on carrying no more than 40 liters (1.4 cubic feet) of gear; basically just enough to hold a couple changes of clothes. Even with a large RV, space is limited.

Prior to moving in to a 300-square-foot motor home, we made do with a 1,000-square-foot apartment. For over a decade we lived without the benefit of a basement or an attic. Our total storage space amounted to three small closets. We always considered our lifestyle pretty minimalist. Somehow we still managed to accumulate four times more stuff than we could take with us.

Nearly everything we owned had to go.

Extended Travel and Pets

by Brian on November 30, 2011 in How To, Planning and Prep

: Tabitha curls up with a good book at an Econo Lodge

You want to travel the world. You love your pets. What do you do?

Reconciling your dream life with the real-world constraints of your existing life is no small challenge. Few of those challenges are harder than incorporating the needs of pets into your travel plans.

It’s probably because of how much we struggled with this issue that reading the blog post Letting Go: What about the Pets? made me so sad. In fairness to the good folks at Meet, Plan, Go, I think they simply buried the lead. The article really does have good, useful, information, which is typical of their work. To get to the best stuff, though, you need to read past the title and the first three testimonials of people who gave away their pets to pursue a life on the road.

20 Ways to Save for Travel

by Brian on November 23, 2011 in How To, Lifestyle, Money & Finance

A beautifully gilded cage is no less confining.

After recommending two weeks ago that each of us should accumulate roughly 25 times our uncovered annual expenses in retirement savings, we felt obligated to offer up some money saving suggestions.

How to Revolutionize Your Financial Life

by Brian on November 7, 2011 in How To, Lifestyle, Money & Finance

How to Revolutionize your Financial Life

This may be the most important thing you read today. It’s certainly the most important thing we’ve written or expect to write.

We knew that our recently launched “How To” travel section needed to deal with money issues. After all, money is one of the primary reasons people do what they do and often the main justification for not doing what they want. We also knew that a site dedicated to perpetual travel like EverywhereOnce needed to think bigger on the topic. Simply offering money saving travel tips isn’t good enough. Instead, we wanted to frame money in a completely new way; one that gets our readers thinking more in terms of sustainability and freedom and less about the next vacation. We wanted to set the stage for the kind of large scale change that makes life on the road possible. In short, we want to completely alter the way you think about money.

How to Get Started on a Life of Fulltime Travel

by Brian on November 2, 2011 in How To

How does any great project come to fruition?

It occurred to us that any large project, whether working toward a life on the road or the smaller ambition of starting a “How To” section for this blog, requires many of the same basic things. As we thought about the new section we’re launching today, we wondered if we had the resources, the time, the energy and the expertise to make the effort a success. These are the same issues we agonized over year after year as we worked toward our goal of fulltime travel.

As we pondered these issues again we realized they were secondary to a bigger question – Read More…