No budget, just trying to figure out how to pay for a $27K + airfaire, 7 person trip & cruise to AK in July. This is about 2x our typical, not budgeted, annual travel spending. Besides, I waited to retire so I didn't have to budget.
Might be more interesting to also know how much of the budget the travel is. $10k travel on $100k planned annual household budget is much different than someone with $50k annual household budget.
$0 for me.
Sorry to hear of your wife's condition - as we age we are inundated with news of illnesses & death.DW has severe COPD
Note to many posters here:
Take your trips/vacations while you are young and healthy as things that can limit your travel have a high probability in happening when you get older.
Yeah. First six years living in the US, we never went on trips/vacations at all. After seeing a great aunt wheelchair bound due to a stroke, we've loosened the purse strings a lot when it comes to vacations at the expense of reaching FI more quickly.Note to many posters here:
Take your trips/vacations while you are young and healthy as things that can limit your travel have a high probability in happening when you get older.
Out of the country trips are not in the equation at this time.
Note to many posters here:
Take your trips/vacations while you are young and healthy as things that can limit your travel have a high probability in happening when you get older.
Also moving to Florida so cruising will be less costly.
....a cruise shouldn't cost much more than $100/day per person, and he has no trouble finding such great deals.
I wonder how perpetual travelers count their travel expenses.
Surely, they pay for hotel rooms, but they have no house maintenance, RE taxes, utility bills, nor the dead money in the house value which can be used to invest to generate income. They also have no cars. What else do I miss?
I never count food costs when I travel, because I have to eat regardless. It is true that a meal at home is usually cheaper, but still. Some other incidental things are also not counted, such as clothes or gifts bought for relatives. However, these are insignificant. I do count hotel costs, RV campground fees, car rental, airfare, etc...
Strictly I count expenses that I would not incur if I stay at home. And my home expenses do not stop when I travel. So, travel expenses are extraneous luxury items that I can cut during economic hard times. On the other hand, if I lived in my RV full-time, it's harder to see what is travel and what is just living costs.
Absolutely true. My travel is just not long enough for the difference to matter.It's helpful to differentiate between food costs "on the road" and those incurred at home when trying to forecast a budget for either living on the road or living at home. Before we started traveling full-time I wanted some idea what we'd spend on food. My weekly grocery budget where I used coupons and knew which stores had the best prices wasn't a good guide. My travel food spending, though, was a better approximation.