We’ve also four kids and the plan to go on a one year trip but not via plane, but via an old fire truck. As the truck both combines travel costs and ‘hotel’, we guess that we will spend not more than 45000,-EUR for the whole trip (buying the fire-truck, paying the fuel and the food). we are going to europe, western asia and north afrika.

all the best, hannes from northern germany!

My husband and I would eventually like to do the same thing…when we’re done with pregnancy/babies and our youngest is about 4 (was that a good age for traveling?). Needless to say, it might be a little while.

But…it’s still fun to research + plan now.

Did you break down the expenses any further here on your website? I’d love to hear about the kind of places you stayed, the activities you participated in, etc.

I did want to tell you that since you’re a backpacker please feel free to visit us in Panama. While the city is as metropolitan as most US cities… you must visit our beaches and mountains. There are literally hundreds of beautiful inns spread across the countryside which I would love to show you and your family.

One last thing, I haven’t been able to find any posts about your trip to Egypt/Lebanon/Israel.. I’d love to hear your insights on it as it is an area of the world dear to my heart.

Keep up the posting!

I love what you and your family did and that you were willing to share it with the world.

Our story has a few parallels. Seven and a half years ago, my wife and I decided to shutter our business in Silicon Valley and check out of the rat race for a while and travel Mexico. We were your classic workaholic professional couple and had not had a 10 day vacation in more than 18 years!

During our three month trip, we wound up buying a fabulous modern Mexican villa on the shores of Lake Chapala where there is a decent sized English speaking expat population. We came home with the plan to sell our Los Gatos abode and get out of Dodge. Well, we did sell but like you, the market had softened and we got less than we would have if we had done so be for the trip.

But we are sooo glad we did what we did and have not looked back.

Best wishes to you and your family.

Happily Retired in Ajijic, Mexico
Joel and Sue
http://www.CasaPreciosaAjijic.com

P.S. The trip may have cost you $86,875.52 but as the credit card commercial goes, “The experience was PRICELESS”!

As we have been planning for our adventure we have been updating a blog. http://www.nomadbackpackers.com We would love to have other opinions, ideas, encouragement, advice, helpful tips, and more left as comments.

Thanks,
Natalie

You asked for our website when we got on the road. We are the family of going RTW for a year from the San Diego area.

We have been traveling through Peru, Chile and now Argentina since July 1.Our blog is vonZwecktrek.com. Posts have been sporadic as many of our hostels have not had internet and we don’t seem to want to slow down enough on the exploring to deal with internet cafes.

FYI, our airfare through Airtreks for the first 6 months of this trip cost over $4,000 per person. That gets us through So. America, to Africa (Egypt and Tanzania), over to Indonesia,and then up to Bangkok. After land travel through Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodio, and Laos we still need to purchase air to India, a few flights in India / Nepal, air to China also with one or two flights within China, and then the tix home. We can’t seem to slow down long enough to take the time to book those tickets, or maybe we don’t really want to know what they are going cost.

Our budget is $150/day for the four of us which has been relatively easy to do except when skiing in Chile.

We are having a blast and hope that you all are enjoying So Cal.

Hasta Luego,

Tim von Zweck