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A Cheap World Cruise: Tips & Tricks for How to Afford the Voyage

June 5, 2023 By John Widmer 32 Comments

Cheap world cruise itinerary map and title

Is a cheap world cruise actually possible? That’s the question we asked ourselves. So we thoroughly investigated this seemingly impossible travel desire and then went on to plan a cruise around the world, filled with a mix of luxury and adventure. Ultimately we were successful in piecing together a cheap […]

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75+ Best Mexico Travel Tips to Know

February 28, 2023 By John Widmer 1 Comment

Mexico travel tips

Mexico is such a spectacular travel destination. Visitors to Mexico are regularly wowed by its warm culture, delicious cuisine, fascinating archeological sites, beautiful beaches, and charming traditions. Yet before packing your bags to enjoy the country’s splendors, there are lots of Mexico travel tips and cultural advice for visitors to […]

Filed Under: Posts, Preparing, Travel Tips, Travel Tips Around the World Tagged With: Mexico, North America

The Ultimate Travel Packing Checklist and Packing Tips

October 22, 2020 By John Widmer 76 Comments

The ultimate travel packing Checklist

It’s not always easy to know what’s the best travel gear to pack, whether packing for a short vacation or for long-term world travel. Yet after traveling around the world for 6 years to 100 countries, we’ve developed what we’ve found to be the best travel packing checklist for value and […]

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How to Find the Best Repositioning Cruise Deals: Under $50 / Day!

August 16, 2020 By John Widmer 53 Comments

Binoculars on a cruise searching the ocean

Last Updated: February 2020 Using cheap repositioning cruise deals to travel around the world can provide for an incredibly affordable way to get from one continent to another in complete luxury. We know this because we’ve now taken over a dozen repositioning cruises all across the world’s oceans and have […]

Filed Under: Cruising Tips, Posts, Preparing, Travel Bargains, Travel Tips Around the World Tagged With: cruise

Travel Update: We’re Roaming Around the World Again!

September 4, 2019 By John Widmer 9 Comments

Travel Route map 2019

Greetings from sunny San Diego! We’re currently packing our bags, ready to begin another adventure that we’re excited to fill you in on. It’s been a relatively slow start to our sixth year of full-time travel. We’ve only roamed around three countries in 2019. Although we’ve been exploring many new […]

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Best Hotel Booking Websites: Where To Find The Best Hotel Deals

May 22, 2017 By John Widmer 32 Comments

5-star hotel deal in Thailand

There are so many hotel booking sites out there today, it can be a painstaking task to attempt to filter through them all to truly find the best hotels deals. Advertisements suggest that a great solution is to use a hotel metasearch that aggregates all the other websites. But we can tell you […]

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Back to School (Volver a la Escuela)

March 11, 2014 By John Widmer Leave a Comment

Our Need for Spanish School in Xela Guatemala During previous trips to Mexico, most people spoke decent enough English in the popular tourist destinations we’ve travelled to. So we mistakenly thought we’d be able to get by fine in our first few Mexico destinations and hopefully we’d slowly pick up […]

Filed Under: Preparing Tagged With: Central America, Guatemala

The Decision to Travel the World

December 18, 2013 By John Widmer 1 Comment

This way that way sign

I really cannot recall exactly when we decided to commit to this idea of quitting our jobs for full time travel. Its really always something I’ve dreamed of for as long as I can remember, but I can’t pinpoint a single thought or conversation where we said – “Ahah – […]

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Getting Rid of it All to Become Mobile and Travel the World

December 10, 2013 By John Widmer Leave a Comment

We decided to get rid of (almost) everything we own so that we can become location independent and travel the world. Of course we’ve kept some essentials in addition to sentimental items such as photo albums that we’re driving down to Florida to store a few boxes with family. But […]

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Preparing for Long Term Round the World Travel

November 3, 2013 By John Widmer Leave a Comment

We’ve been planning for this grand trip for nearly five years now, so you’d think we’ve had plenty of time to prepare and get everything together, right? Wrong. As I sit here writing this, it is exactly 42 days before we’ll be moving out of our home. Coming to the […]

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