Thank you for your videos! I used them to make plans for my first RTW trip, which starts in 3 weeks! I plan to track my expenses the way that you did, so we’ll see how it shakes out. However, one thing that has already surprised me in this process is the pre-trip medical costs from the US. I have spent $4k for all the vaccines, malaria meds, 2 travel clinic visits, and routine checkups with my insurance. That’s in addition to the technology upgrades (phone, tablet, headphones) and new travel backpack. I know that for myself I underestimated this whole pre-trip chunk of costs, so I intend to spread the word!
Hi Natalie! This is so awesome to hear! Where do you kick off your big trip? and you bring up a really, really good point. We spent a bunch of money to get up to date vaccines back in 2020, pre-pandemic (and pre-RU-vid! haha), and completely forgot to mention that. great tip!
I'm currently using your spread sheet to plan my 5 months in Japan, be travelling to Tokyo in Jan 2023 breaking the trip up with 28 days in South Korea
Nerds unite!! 😁 We love the points game, too! One you really understand the math, it can help the budget AND let you feel a bit glamorous every now and then. Excited to see what comes next. 😊
Hello Lisa and Josh, It seems to me that there's a little oversight here. Your calculations only work with 2 constants. These constants are Lisa and Josh. If both participants aren't on board, a holiday like this just won't work. Your Camino documentary turned out well, so should the next. Thankyou so much for this video
Great trip guys. Plenty of countries left for you to do another world tour (perhaps maybe include the UK next time). You could organise a meet up for some of your UK subscribers. One question- how long will it take to plan for your next trip? Loving the spreadsheet work!!
Hey Paul!! Thanks for the message! Couldn’t agree more-too much left of this world to experience-we won’t be stopping now :) the UK is definitely on our list, can’t wait to visit. As far as how long it’ll be to plan our next trip-turns out we have a hard time not sitting still, so not that long at all ☺️
Thanks for the great video. We are planning to world travel soon and it was interesting to hear about your travel costs. One quick question for you; What type of travel credit card did you use to accumulate your usable points? Thanks!
Where is the place shown in the video card? Beautiful! In the opportunity, I wish everyone here that Jesus, the Name above all names (Philippians 2), bless you all, and may you feed from His Word and Salvation!
I’m late to this video and not trying to be an ad for United but have you guys heard of the Excursionist perk that United offers to Mileage Plus members. I have a Chase Sapphire as well and I transfer a lot of points to my United account. It’s not talked about often but it is such an amazing bonus for international travel. Search for it online if you haven’t heard about it to find out more about it but basically get a free award flight during multi-city bookings as long as you follow certain guidelines.
You guys did not go to the Philippines. My husband & I enjoyed the Philippines so much we wanted to move there. We traveled all over Europe, Asia, South America & the Philippines is one of our favorite.
So helpful to know now that we're starting our own year-long trip!!! :) The $700 on COVID tests was crazy to hear!!! hopefully this won't be a problem this year! (fingers crossed!)
Very informative, thanks for posting. We´re heading off around the world at the end of the year so your budget costs were a good indicator. Just curious, but did you book a RTW ticket or individual flights? thanks again :)
Always, always, always individual flights :) don't wanna get locked into a trip and flights when we might... actually definitely will change our minds along the way
Hi there, thanks for watching!! When we started saving a couple of years before our trip, we estimated a budget of $35,000 for the two of us. Our destinations and length of stay in each place changed in the course of the trip, depending on what was actually open.
Great breakdown. Can't wait for the doco. PS. I've just signed up for your Skillshare course. Even though I'm Aussie, I'm sure there will be tips there that I can use.
Sorry if I missed this elsewhere, but what cc or points builder are you using for travel rewards? Especially flights. Love this recap. We're hoping to do this type of trip once our baby is 2 or 3 🌍
so great to hear! we used a combination of different cc with various sign up bonuses and stocked up for a couple of years :) if you're interested, we have a skillshare course on what we did to get there. thanks for watching :)
Can never ever say thank you enough as, to what you have shown all of us. Places I will never see. Experiences I will never have. I have learned so much as to, seeing the world. Wow!! Here’s my question, now what???
thanks for the kind words! great question! the adventures and traveling (and RU-vid) will definitely continue :) we just wanted to mark this 1 year, but onwards to year 2! :D
Ah, good idea! Do you mean a “how to” on transferring points to partnering airlines/hotels and such? We have some videos in our travel Thursday playlist that might be related, and we also cover this in our Skillshare course, in case that’s of interest to you!
Hi there. I love this video. So helpful as I’m soon taking off for at least one year. I’ve already worked out that it may cost me LESS to travel than it does to keep living here. Because Australia is now one of the most expensive places to live, and particularly it’s housing costs. I wanted to ask you specifically about frequent flyer points (such impressive savings you had!). I honestly know nothing about them and need to take a crash course. Did you start saving points before you left? Do you use a credit card to pay for everything and pay off the balance before you are charged interest? Are you able to accrue points booking Airbnb? Any information would be helpful - thanks 🙏
We've got a whole course about that on our Patreon! :) I also came to the same conclusion - it was way more affordable for us to travel then to keep paying rent and living where we were. Here's a great place to start, specific to Australia - www.reddit.com/r/creditcardchurningAus/ We started saving before we left, got enough to get around the world and back, and headed out the door. It was way less points than you'd think. You've also go the bonus of JetStar (every Aussies favorite airline, I know, lol) to get you into southeast asia for super cheap. You can accrue points on anything! We always, always paid off our credit card balances, in full, each month. That's the most important rule to follow. Rule #1. anyway, if you want, check out our patreon course - patreon.com/lisaandjosh
Well that is about $114 USD per day for 2 people… I was going to go around the world but ended-up moving to France for 2 years. You have re-sparked my desire to travel the world for 1 year. I actually just discovered your Channel today (05/07/24) by watching your trip to Osaka & Kyoto, followed by your 2nd trek on the Camino de Santiago. I’m not fully subscribed !
When you say that next time you would move slower, do you mean you would spend more time in each location and take your time or you would still spend the same amount of time in each location and just do less while enjoying each area longer? Does that make any sense?
Can’t wait to see what’s next for you guys, glad that our paths crossed and hoping to see you on the road somewhere next year……. We can then compare spreadsheets and see expenditure
Maybe I’m mistaken, but I watched your “around the world” video, and all I heard was Europe and South East Asia. That’s not actually around the world. 🤔
So it is possible for a single person to travel for a year for half of your budget - less than $25k? Maybe not as much fun traveling alone but it's nice to know you can. But those points really made a difference and impacted your budget. Some of us would have to build up that momentum. After the year of travel, will you stop and return home for a while or continue to travel? Thanks for sharing.
Bonjour, i am planning my travel arround the World and i am currious about your point/miles thingy. Can you please explain more about how you saved money? Merci, Love France
Where you travelling to next ! I want to go on holiday to changi airport singapore but just the airport I don't know if that's even possible just to holiday at the airport its a amazing airport
awesome. im going to travel next year. can i ask, do you have a video on what hotel points and airline points systems or companies you used or think are the best for a world travel trip? thank you and congrats on the channel and being able to have experienced this!
Wow! Thank you for sharing your 1 year journey around the world. Not only it was so fun traveling vicariously with you but also you guys inspired me to plan my travels next year! It is actually surprisingly less than what I thought which makes me think more realistic for me as well! I’m so looking forward to seeing more from your year two of your travel.
Thanks, Janell! if anything, this year of full time of traveling has taught us that we definitely want travel to be more a part of our lives, not just for a year, but forever :) so the adventures on RU-vid will continue!
the adventures continue (and will also still continue on RU-vid!) :) we just wanted to mark this 1 year honeymoon :D and we would love to come back to Australia again!
... question regarding onward tickets ... looking to do Japan, South Korea + Taiwan ... but really would like the flexibility of buying one way tickets ... not sure if this is possible as some countries will not allow entry without an outbound ticket to show .. any ideas from the experts :)
hey there! we totally get that--great q! we usually always have some kind of proof of onward travel right before we get to our destinations. The most common way we do this is book a flight with points (those are usually cancellable and refundable), a mega inexpensive flight on a budget airline knowing that we might not take it (but sometimes we've actually ended up using them!) We even used a photo of a checkout screen for a ferry we were going to take out of the country, but we didn't end up taking it in lieu of a more inexpensive option. We haven't had any major issues with this, but for us it's a comfort thing--we just like knowing we have some proof if needed. hope that helps!
Oh no! It should send you a welcome email a few minutes after you join with links to all the stuff. If it didn't, can you respond to the email so that we can forward you the link?
This video gives me all the good feelings - travel, money, spreadsheets - what's not to love? Fellow spreadsheet nerd. I got ones for everything in my life. I was updating my travel vaccines one recently. Many vaccines are vastly cheaper in foreign countries or not even available in the US. For example, get your Japanese Encephalitis (live version lasts lifetime or ten years) shots in Korea or Thailand. Or Rabies shots. I'm spending about $3k USD/month right now in Japan, staying only in hotels (cheaper than airbnbs). I don't drink but been dating, so there's those costs. It's been nice that as the JPY keeps diving, my costs go down.
spreadsheet for travel vaccines is a great idea and hadn't thought about getting vaccines while abroad, another great idea!! hope you're enjoying Japan
Really, really enjoyed every video you made this last year! What an adventure! And great job in the budget! We have $24,000 budgeted for travel and we can go through that in 4 weeks of travel! This year we did walk the Camino Frances so that was a little cheaper than our usual trips. We also got to go to Maui, Disneyland, and Colorado. Next year is Maui and Greece!
Did you catch the part about how they would have spent $36k if they didn’t travel so it’s really only $4k more (plus $13k in points) total. It’s the offset that matters!
