Building A Long-Term Travel Trip

Let Me Show You How

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Building A Long-Term Travel Trip

Over the holidays, the family visited Wonderspaces Philadelphia, an art space with engaging installations to wander around and through. One wall was printed with the sentence “Before I die I want to _______” a bunch of times for visitors to fill in. At least twenty percent of the answers was TRAVEL.

I wasn’t surprised by the number of people who wanted to explore the world, but by the implication that they haven’t or couldn’t. Why?

I’ve heard answers that include money, work, and family obligations. It costs too much. I can’t get the time off. I’ve got kids. An elderly mother. Pets. Houseplants.

Those are all valid concerns, even impediments. I’d wager that most of the people who want to travel but don’t simply stop there, thinking that some day, at the right time, they’ll find a way around the insurmountable wall blocking their travel desires.

I’m here to tell you that unless you hit the lottery, there will NEVER be a time in your life when you don’t have money concerns, work, and family commitments. If you wait for some mythical “right time,” your travel dreams may never happen.

You don’t know how much time you have on earth.

Go see it. As soon as possible.

I’m not suggesting that you drop everyone and everything and escape into the night. But I am telling you that most everything in your life can be saved for, managed, swapped, shared, stored, put on hold, rented, or paused, if you have a plan.

Over the coming months, I’m going to show you how we make our long-term travel plans. I hope that you can use some part of our story as a blueprint for your own trips.

Today is Step One.