The Reality of Full-Time Travel: How We Plan Trips

Ep.132 When you want to visit everywhere, how do you fine tune your destinations and juggle costs so you don’t completely blow your budget, all while visiting four continents and 14 countries? Join us as we dive into the nitty-gritty of our strategic planning process, revealing the key factors that shape our travel decisions. This video is your ultimate guide to mastering the complexities of travel logistics. We also show it as we tell it with graphics that walk you through our timeline for choosing and booking our destinations using our complete 2024 itinerary and we break down our 2024 transportation expenses with helpful visuals. Plus, don't miss our announcement about an exclusive Christmas Eve livestream where you can connect with us live and ask your burning travel questions!

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Chapters:
00:00 - Start
02:46 - Planning bucket list destinations we want to visit
03:24 - Scheduling our priority BIG ROCK places first
04:14 - Avoiding crowds and peak pricing for our budget
05:23 - Enjoying good weather is a high priority for us
07:04 - Scheduling around the 90/180 Schengen rules
07:31 - Using geographic arbitrage to save money and time
08:27 - Our step-by-step planning for 2024
08:53 - How we fill out our travel calendar
11:58 - Travel cost breakdown by destination

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[GriffinAtplay]

2nd time I’ve read this post! Really well thought out and helpful. One comment for your future planning. We left Europe last year in mid November, going through Vienna on our way to fly home to the US. Christmas Markets were just opening in Vienna and had minimal crowds. Musical performances everywhere. Then, the Munich airport had a full Christmas Market. It was unexpected and lovely.

[robertafronteras]

Thank you Judy and Kevin, you are both so engaging and concise with your information. Safe travels and keep posting! I look forward to future videos!

[CYTTravels]

This was a very helpful video! Trying to plan our year travel currently

[ncalcamper]

Nice job! I've recently retired for a full-time travel lifestyle and planning my year is definitely daunting! This video is helping me visualize how to approach and will check out your material on your website. Thanks again!

[nomadjim]

Excellent breakdown and explanation of how you plan your trips. I do a similar thing but it's not all written down and relies a lot on my memory, which doesn't always work perfectly! I've downloaded your travel planning spreadsheets and will start using those to improve on what I've been doing. They will be of much value to me. Here's to happy and safe travels in 2025!

[GlobetrotterGranny]

This SUPER helpful!!! Info on the travel between destinations has always been a struggle to figure out. This will be very helpful moving forward. THANK YOU!!

[jordanelbers]

I watch your videos all the time, and just realized that I wasn’t subscribed! Sorry about that! I love all of your breakdown videos, and behind the scenes of how you do what you do. Keep up the great content!

[livingworkingoutsidebox]

Great addition to this series 👏. Super insightful and helpful. 💪

It's good to be able to see your whole process on planning and managing slow traveling the world 🌎

[tammyvig]

Great video, loved to see the visuals of your travels.

[claudiahansen]

Fantastic video. Love your crisp analysis and detailed charts and visuals! Merry Christmas,

[BlueVanDamn]

We use cruises to better use the expense. Flight from Sydney back to LA was 11k so we took a 17 day cruise to Hawaii only cost us $6100 and we get to see 6 more places and all food included. Win win for us.

[kayakerjer]

This 63 year old Canadian also uses a color-coded bucket list spreadsheet, sorted into rows and columns, to plan “Big Rock” adventures. I also have a spreadsheet that uses 12 criteria to determine a composite score out of 10 for all completed and future Big Rocks. This may seem over the top, but I have multiple serious and progressive health issues and a very high level of planning is required. My rule on sequencing is to strive for “hardest first” before my health window closes. I can sit on a cruise ship when I’m 80 if I’m still alive then. But if I want to walk the Camino de Santiago, I better have it on the calendar (May 2024 in this case). Every year a few more Big Rocks move from the “someday” category to “never”.

[starmkd]

Australia and NZ is a must. Patagonia, atamaca desert. Cape town is out of the way. Try jordan, iran, kyrgyzistan, Georgia, Moldova, belarus. Iceland. China is great too.

[Mar-zevu]

what a nice video! I am also a planner of my trips. The funny thing is that I myself can not handle heat well and prefer to seek out the cool moments in a region.

[TrekkingwithDebandMike]

Great tool. Planning can be overwhelming.😊

[Evacherrypie]

In south Italy I recomend do not plan travel on sundays with buses because many times not running. I had few issues with them.
Recomend Budapest to visit where I am originally from.Very beautiful city .From there you can do river cruises on the Danube river cross Austria, Germany, and ending in Amsterdam in Netherlands. Good luck with your travels in 2025.I will watching you.
I still planing mine for this year try to figure out where to go.

[Kari-Evan]

Very helpful to see the graphics for your year with months labeled. Great job!

[JayandTanyaTravel]

This was very helpful. Thank you. I know we spend way too much money on our approx. 6-8 months/year travel so your budgeting process was great. Thank you.

[EvolveMoore]

Another great video! This answered quite a fee questions for me! Thank you!

[dansouth]

Hey Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to J&K!! You had a great year with some awesome vlogs, am looking forward to more great stuff in 2025!! Cheers!!