What Does It Cost to Travel the World?

We’ve really been slacking on the blog since we’ve got home – I hope we haven’t lost all our readers yet because we still have more to say!! At the very least, there needs to be a tearful goodbye, and we need to do a little reflection on the meaning of it all….

But before then, let’s talk dollars.  Is anyone out there curious at all about the final financial tally? Dying to know?  I thought so.  I’ll finally satisfy your curiosity.  But first I’ll tell you what we spent in Southeast Asia.

We spent 25 days in Vietnam, 25 days in Thailand, and 4 days in Japan.

Lodging: $1217

Southeast Asia was all about hotels and guesthouses – sleeping in style on the cheap.

Food and drinks: $1734

So much rice and so many noodles….

Entertainment and Activities: $897

Necessities (clothing, shampoo, internet, sending packages home etc): $1403

Transportation: $1432

We ended our trip in luxury, flying everywhere and having drivers pick us up at the airport. It was heaven!

Total for Southeast Asia: $6683

And now (drumroll please) the total for 11 months on the road! 

Grand Total: $54,800!!!!!!

This includes $11,150 for trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific flights.

So now that our bank accounts are empty, we are looking forward to the next challenge – refilling them!! So if anyone is looking to hire a couple of budget-savvy engineers, send them our way…

-E

PS Sadly there are no new pictures to post, but I promise that for the next blog entry I’ll pull some gems out of the archive.