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My husband and I spent a decade btw the 2008 wall st collapse and the covid lockdown traveling the eastern US as pet sitters.We liquidated assets in NJ where we couldn't afford to stay even if we'd wanted to. Our annual income was about $26k. Our car was paid off. We used my sister's TN address so I could register the car and vote. Car insurance dropped 50%. We used 2 clearing house sites to nook pet sit gigs. We bartered for shelter. I calculated if we could sit 3 weeks per month we could make it work.Our food budget was about $300-400/month.cellphones were $26/month.
We are traveling to London Paris and Fjords of Norway in the next couple weeks. 16 days for 3 adults and it will cost us $14,500 I am 59 and my wife is 56 and daughter 22 We decided to do these bucket list trips while I am still employed and healthy. Last year we did Italy Rome, Florence and Venice, Spain Madrid, Barcelona We walked 28 k steps a day and we did not see anyone in their 70’s doing what we did and that is why we decided to hit it hard while we still have good health. We plan our own trip and cover three times what a tour group can do.
Love your videos. My husband and I just kicked off our retirement/nomadic travel. We sold everything and will head to Europe first for 3 months; Japan (where we lived at one time for more that 3 years) for 3 months and then South America for 6 months. We are so excited and have always loved traveling.
Thanks! So glad you found our channel and your travels sound exciting. We are heading to Japan next year and again in 2025 for the world expo in Osaka. Safe travels, John and Bev retirementtravelers.com
My observation is that this very very US-centric, which makes sense as you are american. Most budget travelers in Europe would to consider $40k - $60k as a huge luxury. I am 53 and find spending more than $24k a year very very difficult, this includes food, tours, 3x flights back to the UK for SE Asia, lodging mixing resorts and hiring motorbikes, insurance, visas. It also includes maintaining a property in the UK. So if I was to double this, as your budget suggests, I would really live like a king.
I travel solo, slow traveler. 1,500 dollars per month. 1/3 lodge, food 1/3, others 1/3. I stay at a place from one to six months depending on the visa period.
Thanks for following along. We are currently spending 3 months in the Balkans and loving it! Great prices, nice people and beautiful countries. John and Bev
I travelled all the way around the world solo in 2017. It took me two months and cost me $8000. I spent five weeks in Europe then three more weeks heading east to west. I’m now retired and plan to do it again but take longer in more places. The most expensive things for me were the air transportation from one country to the other. I got Airbnb’s with kitchens and bought food from local grocery stores, never ate at a restaurant.
Wonderfully informative video! I am really enjoying catching up on your channel since discovering it a month ago. So impressed with all you do! We will spend a month exploring Portugal soon and we are contemplating a next step of a 3-month trip (destinations unknown) next year! Thanks for being so inspiring!
Very informative video! I really liked the triple Venn diagram of Luxury to Budget and Mid-Range in between. My wife Lisa and I are also in that Mid-Range like you guys. Though the three circles simplified things for this video, you rightly allude, John, to the spectrum that each of the circles can be. But without pigeon-holing too much most folks do generally fall in the three categories.
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed the video. We have found it easier to be on the budget end in the Balkans! Some incredible bargains here and beautiful countries. John and Bev
Found you guys through the power of the algorithm and I’m so glad I did! You’re an amazing inspiration to us younger travellers - and the fact that you also discovered the 1$ train trick with the Great Wall of China told me everything I needed to know about your style :) very similar to ours in our early 30s! If you ever plan on seeing Romania / Austria / UK, ping me anytime. Kind regards, Andra
That's great. We were a little frustrated with the algorithm until a couple of weeks ago, and now so many new people are finding our channel. Hope you enjoy our other videos and good luck with all your travels. We spent an entire month in Romania last summer and loved it. We also spent a week in Vienna (also an amazing place). Thanks for the offer and always like to learn from other travelers. Safe travels and stay in touch, John and Bev retirementtravelers.com/
WOW! Thank you so much! My wife and I are looking at traveling for the rest of our lives, and this is the most informative video we have seen so far. Thank you!
Thanks. Glad you found it helpful. We absolutely love our life of travel and wish you guys all the best on your journey. John and Bev retirementtravelers.com/
Brian and Carrie youtube channel is a couple in their ealry 50s. They talk about slow travel and budget (they stay under 30k a year). I think they use Cigna for health insurance for around 3k a year. Find their Q&A videos for more info
Thank you for this video. I just came across your videos about a week ago. For the first time in my life, I'm going to be outside of the USA for at least a month. I'm on a very limited budget but I'm going to be traveling with my eldest child who is economical in the best of ways. We'll be going to Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands & I'm looking to make a stop in the UK to finally meet some long time friends. Safe continued travels around the World.
Thanks so much and good luck with your travels. Glad you are enjoying our channel. You are going to some great places. Check out our website for world travel info and our blogs. John and Bev retirementtravelers.com
Interesting ways to look at travel budgeting. Thanks for sharing. You both are so positive and have great energy. I would be interested in what other retirement travel tube channels you follow?
Thanks so much and glad you are enjoying our channel. Lately, we have been so busy with our channel, traveling and scheduling our next trips, we haven’t had much time to follow anyone very closely. John and Bev
We like how you've described the different categories of traveller. We thought your slow budget traveller description fits us pretty well, but then what you said about mid-range travellers also resonated with us. The great thing about moving through regions overland is that you really see the subtle variations in food, culture and landscapes as you move from town to town.
Thanks and well stated. Everyone wants to know an exact budget for traveling, but there are just so many variables. We tried to present it in a way to help people better understand. Love following your journey as well. Perhaps our paths will cross some day. Safe travels, John and Bev retirementtravelers.com/
Love your videos. I really liked this video with the budget breakdowns. We are a 40 & 50 something year olds, about to embark on one year of budget travel. I hope we run into you somewhere.
Thanks. Glad you liked our video. Good luck on your travels and we always enjoy meeting people along the way. Safe travels, John and Bev retirementtravelers.com
One of the better videos about full-time travel costs I’ve seen. Thank you! I really liked how you broke out the different category of travelers, and did the cost breakdown based on the average budget traveler. I’m one of those who cannot do full-time yearly travel, but I can do a month at a time a couple times a year. This was valuable information. Thank you!
Adding my voice to say I would love to know more about mid range to budget travel for those who can only spend a month to 6 months away. I would love to spend 4 to 6 months away every now and then, but I couldn't travel full time due to family commitments.
Excellent video! Looking back at our 3 month Europe trip we spent just shy of 3k per month. We did use points for round trip flights from US to Europe. Great tips John thank you!! ~Cara 😊
My 3 sisters and I recently went on a “7-nites, 3 continents” cruise around the Agean Sea that will probably fall in your mid-range circle that we enjoyed very much. Our age range is 60-74. The Celestyal Cruise Ship was not huge (1200 capacity, we were told there 700 pax on our cruise), not fancy but adequate and efficient. The staff were very helpful and friendly. Shore stops included Cairo for pyramids, Jerusalem & Bethlehem, Cyprus (Limassol) Turkey (Ephesus) and Rhodes, Greece. We embarked in Athens where we did the budget route. Total time was 2 weeks but spent less than $2000, including cruise, tips, meals and hotels + transportation, museum tkts in Athens. (My sis and I flew from 3 different countries, so that does not count the flight to Athens.) Bottom line, the experience was special!
Great video and interesting perspective from an Americans point of view. We are newly semi retired and classify ourselves as hybrid travellers, we enjoy 5-6 star but love being in a self contained unit/villa so we can have a kitchen and some home comforts…. Hotel rooms for certain locations and special times… Love your channel- safe travels from Australia!
Thanks so much. Congrats on your semi-retirement. Australia is an amazing country and we plan to spend some more time there next year. We met some friends recently in Sydney and they took us out on their sailboat. John and Bev retirementtravelers.com/
I am a slow budget traveler. My wife and I have been to Iceland 8 times and on a budget. Lodging in Iceland is not expensive if you stay in guest houses. We stayed in a guest house for a week and it cost less than 100 dollars a night. It had a kitchen area where we cooked. The biggest cost was the 4 wheel drive rental car. But most everything else was well within budget. Looking forward to more travels. Thank you Linda and Ben
I love yu guys!! We started watching you before we sold everything, retired and started our own world travel. I hope some day that we are in the same area and the same time, so that we might be able to meet up.
Thanks so much. We would love to meet up sometime. Stay in touch and you just never know when our paths may cross. Safe travels, John and Bev retirementtravelers.com/
That is awesome. We love hearing. Best of luck with your journey and hope that our channel continues to help you. Safe travels and many blessings, John and Bev retirementtravelers.com/
Amazing video. Very inspiring. We have the same thought and as we have just retired we are going to put our plans into practice, Now that we have found your channel we will be able to program ourselves better. Thank you for your tips
Thanks so much and you are welcome. Good luck with your retirement travel plans. Hope we can continue to help encourage and inspire. John and Bev retirementtravelers.com
Brian and Carrie youtube channel is a couple in their ealry 50s. They talk about slow travrl and budget (they stay under 30k a year). I think they use Cigna for health insurance for around 3k a year. Find their Q&A videos for more info
In Italy, we hired tour guides for many of the sites since that included a "skip the line" ticket too. It's hard to stand in line for hours _and_ then tour the location for several hours too. The Vatican was particularly worth it. We only stood in line for stuff we could not get a guided tour or tickets. After a week, our legs were very sore - so we were happy to be on the way back home.
Yes. we did the same, Planned our itinerary around pre booked on line skip the line and were able to cover multiple attractions factoring the locations and travel from one event to the next and saved a lot of time. If you are in Rome / Florence that is the way to do it or else will waste your day.
Just looked at another Ireland trip in the Spring , we love it and Scotland. Found a highly rated AirBNB for 980 a month. Airline direct round trip flights for 2 at $768 total. The only other big ticket item we are considering is whether to rent a car or not. Car rental is more than the shelter if for a month. So we are thinking car rental to get to the location we are going for a week, then turn it in and use buses the rest of the month. That's $1800 with the rest being groceries, some going out, bus ticket and/or rail passes, fees for some sites, etc. All in all, we plan to spend 3k for the month. You can travel on a budget !
@@bridgetwoodward8031 Use things like Google flight to locate best time to travel. For instance, on the other end of the season, if you leave Aug 5 and come back sept 2 or that week or so, For 2 people it's base 795 round trip with a quick stop in Iceland which we prefer since it breaks up the flight. Depending on bag fees, we travel light and do laundry every week. That brings you in under 900. Or go non stop for a couple hundred more. Piece of cake.
In October of 1999 in Germany , 4 of us were budget travelers.. off season. One night we stayed in a B&B with breakfast for $12.00US dollars. We were the only ones there. A nice experience.
Thanks for the comment. We were amazed how much we would spending on home, insurance, property taxes, HOA fees, golf membership, etc We are much more fulfilled spending on a life of travel and memories. John and Bev retirementtravelers.com/
This was very very helpful!! I am new to your channel and am really enjoying it. Hoping within the year to be traveling (solo but with my little dog) 6 months of the year outside of Canada.
When you said you weren’t backpackers, I was about to say “yes, you are backpackers!” I like that you do some budget stuff and some splurges. We are the same way. 👍
Thanks. We are backpackers, we just are getting too old to stay in hostels. Always fun to splurge every now and then, but fun to budget as well. We would walk 5 miles before overpaying for a taxi driver trying to scam us!!!
@@RetirementTravelers yes, it’s easy to get taken advantage of by taxi drivers when you are in a city you don’t know and you don’t speak the language 😉… That’s why it’s such a blessing when there is mass transit available!
I know budgets are a very personal thing, but I do find what Americans consider "budget" as being huge to everyone else.... I'm from the UK and easily fly around Europe, stay on good hotels, do all the tourist stuff and about £1500 easily covers everything, no skimping or thought about what to do needed. Once we head over to Asia or Africa... £1500 is nice and luxurious.
What are you paying for a good hotel? This would be very helpful info for non-Uk travelers. And bear in mind that “good” is subjective so any links to a nice budget friendly place you have stayed would be a fabulous bit of info to share. Thanks!
That's because our cost to fly is sky high compared to Europeans. That's a huge added cost. I know from London, I flew all the way to Krakow for only $60, a 5 hour flight. It'll cost at least a $700 at cheapest to fly from L.A. to London. Also, what kind of places are you staying at? Even 20 years ago, staying in hostels were still $30 per night or more average. That already is $900 for a month. Add transportation and food and admissions it adds up. I think $4,000 to $5,000 is reasonable for a month for 2 people, so $2000 - $2500 per person, and I wouldn't be staying at hostels when I retire 😂.
Travelled alone as a budget traveller internationally. Always use public transport - a great way to meet local people. Fly on a Tuesday or Wednesday, it's a lot cheaper. In UK never buy train tickets at the station, far cheaper online. Lots of good websites for various places, research before you arrive if possible, but local people are often helpful.
Great video. We are hoping to do the budget travel but we think we can stay under $3k/mo. We plan to start out staying a month at a time wherever we go to save on lodging. We also don’t mind cooking for ourselves on a regular basis. It will be interesting to see how it all works out. We will keep watching and learning from you two. Thanks!
I'm 65 and another great budget idea is HelpX or Workaway. Both are help/culture exchanges. 20hrs work in exchange for free room & food. I've stayed at some amazing places and met so many interesting people this way. It does take a bit of time to sift out the best options, but similar to finding airbnb places.
@@janepassant1186 Hi Jane. Thanks for the tips. I've heard of workaway but how do you actually "sift" through to find the good stays ? How accurate would reviews be if every workawayer has their reviews public, therefore using it to possibly influence a new host for a new workaway. Could you list some places you stayed that were the best ? I have an email on my channel about page if you don't wish to write publicly :) Thank you kindly
Hi Sarah, thanks so much. Sadly, we’ve misplaced your previous email. Could you send us another note through our website so we have your email? We are still planning to visit NZ in February. Apologies, John and Bev
On my last vacation, we ate breakfast in our hotel room, ate out everyday with a late lunch, and by dinner time we just wanted a sandwich or something easy. It worked great.
Excellent video. I'd love to see one on how you got comfortable traveling at such a rapid pace. When we travel we tend to want to get back to our home base after about a month. Any tips?
Great question, thanks. We love seeing our families, so that is the draw to get home. When we are on the road, we stay very busy traveling, sightseeing, trip planning, producing videos, etc We love the challenge of building some new together as retirees and it keeps us focused. We also look forward to the day when our grandkids can hit the road with us during summers, once they get a little older. John and Bev
To secure lodging for $30 a night you are in South America. London and Paris add a zero. We shopped hard and found a hotel 5 minutes walking from the train station in London downtown and we are $300 a night for 3 adults for a 3 star and looking at all options I felt we did good If you find a place outside downtown London than your transportation costs go up.
Fantastic break down of cost !!!! This gives anyone a basic outline. Could you do a general system you use when paying for things. How much you take out per month and how you do it? Use a credit card most places, or cash ?? Thanks for all your hard work making these videos !!!
Thanks. We try to use our Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card for everything, so that we get points. Here is the link: www.referyourchasecard.com/19/MPFB3ADRWQ When we need cash, we use a Capital One debit card because they reimburse international ATM fees. There are a number of places, especially street vendors and lower cost countries that won’t take credit card, so you really need both. John and Bev
@@RetirementTravelers this is a good topic. We, too love our chase sapphire reserve and milk everything we can out of it. We don’t want to get stuck with a lot of foreign currency as we move around. Do you take out a fixed amount on arrival? Guessing you have been on the road long enough now to have a pretty good idea of how much local currency to start with in each region? Any specific guidance appreciated.
GREAT idea! We are planning our inaugural retirement journey based on one week stays. Would love to have all stays be 2-4 weeks but it simply isn’t practical for us. We have decided one week stays with short bus or train journeys will let us soak in a fair amount of a region. And if there is a region that just grabs us heart and soul we can always return for a longer trip on a different segment of the journey. We try to imagine 24 checkins, checkouts, train/bus rides over six months and just can’t quite visualize it. I love that one week stays are how John and Bev are traveling also. Every single thing about them and their lifestyle and choices jives with ours (except we have no pensions🧐). THRILLED to have found them after weeks of searching for exactly this type of traveler and content.
@@singsongcindy8865 You will be shocked at just how short one week is when you’re in a new, exciting, interesting place. You barely skim the surface and often end up exhausted from trying to see and do everything. I prefer a month to really get to know a place. It’s so cool when locals recognize you at the market and want to talk. A month allows me to fully experience the downtime I had promised myself for retirement. It’s so restorative to spend a whole morning on a balcony enjoying the atmosphere, a coffee, a bit of yoga or to fully experience a sunset from beginning to end because you’re not rushing off to meet some self imposed schedule.
Trying to figure out my budget as a single traveler. I’m currently planning on basing myself in Greece but then flying around from there to different destinations in Europe and Africa
That’s a great place to base your travels. We’ve loved our time in the Balkans and the prices are great, outside of Schengen Zone, so consider spending some time there. Safe travels, John and Bev
I recently (august 2023) tried out British Airways new route. London to Aruba via Antigua. Flights plus a 4 Star star hotel, bed and breakfast for 7 nights cost £2100 for a solo traveller.
Thanks and great question. Our transportation costs are higher than many because we travel back to US twice per year and we are traveling at a FAST pace early in our retirement. While we are “young” and able, we wanted to see as much of the world as possible. In a few years, we will slow down and stay places a month at a time. This will significantly reduce our transportation costs. John and Bev retirementtravelers.com
Thanks for breaking this down. I’ve traveled internationally as a budget traveler. I’ve also been on several trips with tour groups in order to experience places difficult to get to. With the roughly $50,000 annual budget for you two I can easily travel within $25,000 annually. Keep the videos coming.
@@RetirementTravelers so is it correct the budget in the video is cost for 2 people and that I can estimate costs for solo travel to be half to 2/3s the cost? If so - woo hoo - I might be able to manage it if I can get someone to rent out my home (not ready to sell it like you did)
@@kleek2217 honestly, unless you are American you can enjoy more than this on less than half their budget. For Americans, it seems there must be some secret global higher price that we non-Americans dont have to pay. ;-)
I just found you guys and you are delightful. I can tell Im going to be spending a lot of time watching you videos. Thank you for the product endorsements. I value learning from your experiences/mistakes. Do you think I would get more from your series if I started from the beginning? (Is that a stupid question?) I mean, I could jump around and learn stuff but I think it would be more fun to hear about your experiences in the moment(ok, at least they were in the moment at the time you recorded them.) Thank you and expect lots more questions
So glad you found our channel. We hope you enjoy all the videos. We certainly had a learning curve to go through, so recognize that we had to learn during our early videos. Thanks for following along on our journey and feel free to ask all the questions you want. Safe travels and many blessings. John and Bev retirementtravelers.com/
Thats great u stayed in makati the business capital of the country. When u get bck to philippines , visit boracay in cebu, cagbalete island in mauban quezon province, enjoy ur visit in canadian rockies! Im from toronto canada
My wife and I have a similar lifestyle. We sold our home in Hawaii, gave away nearly everything, and the remainder (family albums, etc.) is in a 5' x 5' locker. Domestic travel throughout the United States is using a Sprinter RV van. Recently, overseas travel increased to 8 to 10 months per annum. After 9 years as retired nomads, a few concessions were added. The first is business class due to a bad back requiring more comfortable seats on long flights. The second is increased use of cruise lines. The post pandemic prices are currently reasonable off season. The third is overseas health care including dental and vision. While there are vlogs about independent retirement travel, few address the issue of assisted living and nursing homes. Too expensive in the United States. Better care and lower cost for custodial care overseas.
Thanks for the interesting comment. We do prescriptions and some medical overseas (Colombia). What countries in particular are you referring to on good custodial care? Thanks John and Bev retirementtravelers.com
@@RetirementTravelers My personal choice is the Philippines since I grew up in that country. Cost for caregiver services is about $500 per month. We had to consult several medical doctors during a recent trip, and they charged $20 to $30 per visit. But my wife believes it is too far from our children in Hawaii and California to visit. We are interested in possibly Mexico, Central and South America. In 2021, I had emergency surgery in Quito, Ecuador. The quality of care was excellent.
@@RetirementTravelers Thanks. I will check it out. We are very happy Medellin, after Pablo Escobar, spent their money for education. Possibly they now have a new generation of highly educated caregivers. My wife and I speak conversational Spanish. (I will be following your vlogs.)
Sounds like fun. I thought about moving over to a "digital nomad" lifestyle once the kids are on their own. I'm currently in IT and there is no reason why I can't do what I do from anywhere with a good Internet connection. Beyond that, it depends how active I am when I'm retired and assuming my 401k recovers from the current situation.
We have found so many great low cost places around the world for digital nomads. We need good internet for what we do. Best of luck on your journey and hope you can follow along with us. John and Bev retirementtravelers.com
Thank you for taking the time to post this video, I have only just come across your channel and enjoying how informative it is. A quick question regarding the monthly breakdown of an 50k pa for 2 travelers, I do find the lodging budget of $1041 to be quite astounding, that's $34.70 for 2 people per night. Are these figures just a way of calculating what a couple has available to spend if they have a budget of 50K or actual figures. I would have thought a 50k budget would be good, but looking at your breakdown in that way makes it look quite unachievable. I am looking primarily at Europe and that budget definitely would not work for 12 months.
Thanks. We believe 50K is definitely on the low end. It requires lower cost countries and longer stays. (i.e. monthly rentals much cheaper than nightly) We also spend a couple of months a year staying with family, which can skew the yearly numbers. Hope this helps, John and Bev retirementtravelers.com/
We are in a recession. It is very vulnerable to a depression.. Most of us have had our savings dwindle with the cost of living into the stratosphere, we are finding it impossible to replace it. My condolences to anyone like myself retiring in this crisis, it gets tougher by the day.
As a fellow retiree lI totally feel your pain, l'd suggest you look into passive index fund investing and learn some more. You should have looked into earning passive income years ago; its still never too late to get started. For me I hired an expert advisor for assistance, and following her advice, I poured $50k in passive diversified safe-haven assets and its yielded $175k so far. Nothing special, just proper diversification and a cut loss and take profit strategy.
@Richard Owen My advisor is Nancy Ann, she is a one-off fee license advisor and came highly recommended. You can search her name on the net to verify, She's well pronounced.
@@adamdiroff4869 The crazy part is that those advisors are probably outperforming the market and raising good returns but some are charging fees over fees drain your portfolio. Is this the case with yours too?
Thanks so much and let us know if we can help you in any way. We spent a month in Medellin and heading back some next year. Here is his link. @kachaycolombiatours. You can contact him on Instagram and his name is Jaime. He is based in Medellin and just a fantastic person. Tell him the Retirement Travelers sent you. 😉 John and Bev
32$ lodging/ night is indeed challenging, tonight you are at a 70$ hotel, so tomorrow, you guys will need to sleep in the street 😊 Ideas : always keep a roof that belongs to you somewhere in the world (rent it short term while not there) & alternate 3 months travel & month=> 1 month home
Thanks for the tips! The short term rental didn't work for us due to HOA restrictions in the neighborhood we were living, but we could see how it could make sense. Safe travels, John and Bev retirementtravelers.com/
Larry, I reccomend you to read a boom called "Die with zero" very eye opening. Do not waist your 40s and 50s and include travels now. Tomorrow or full health is never guarateed
This budget seems very reasonable. Then general rule I always read for retirement: You can usually go by about 60% of the costs of living you had while working. I am sure you made 200k or more per year before retiring and clever folks as you seem to be you certainly put the necessary amounts aside while working full time. And I am sure you could sell the house better than you bought it, thus you have some additional margin. So my guess is you would end up near double the costs of the budget traveler, because you can afford it - and seem to enjoy every minute (or at least many minutes) of it. Last point: With the effort you put into YT you still do have kind of a job, which brings some revenue too. Not as much as everyone thinks, but with the number of views you have still something. Keep it up and I hope you can keep moving as long as you can and want to!
Thanks for watching and following along on our journey. Selling everything we owned, traveling the world, while starting a TH-cam channel and website has been quite an adventure to say the least. John and Bev retirementtravelers.com/
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Retirement is wonderful if you have two essentials - much to live on and much to live for. Invest wisely and get good returns.
thank you, can you give a pointer the best investment now ? i am thinking of getting stocks or cryto
The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them. An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. get a financial assistant
@@Lemariecooper I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity and cryto. Can you give a pointer ?
@@jessicasquire I currently work with KATRINA VANRENSUM a financial expert i met in a seminar
@@Lemariecooper I recently watched KATRINA VANRENSUM on TV , such a great speaker . but have you made any profit whatsoever working with her ?
Nice detail. I’ve found big savings by leaving my 4 kids behind
That works great until the grandkids come along 🤣
@Joe Kuhn enjoy your channel. I retired at 56 years old
We enjoy Joe’s channel as well.
Lol great point!
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My husband and I spent a decade btw the 2008 wall st collapse and the covid lockdown traveling the eastern US as pet sitters.We liquidated assets in NJ where we couldn't afford to stay even if we'd wanted to. Our annual income was about $26k. Our car was paid off. We used my sister's TN address so I could register the car and vote. Car insurance dropped 50%. We used 2 clearing house sites to nook pet sit gigs. We bartered for shelter. I calculated if we could sit 3 weeks per month we could make it work.Our food budget was about $300-400/month.cellphones were $26/month.
Wow. Great job
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We are traveling to London Paris and Fjords of Norway in the next couple weeks.
16 days for 3 adults and it will cost us $14,500
I am 59 and my wife is 56 and daughter 22
We decided to do these bucket list trips while I am still employed and healthy.
Last year we did Italy Rome, Florence and Venice, Spain Madrid, Barcelona
We walked 28 k steps a day and we did not see anyone in their 70’s doing what we did and that is why we decided to hit it hard while we still have good health.
We plan our own trip and cover three times what a tour group can do.
Awesome. This is my plan
Love your videos. My husband and I just kicked off our retirement/nomadic travel. We sold everything and will head to Europe first for 3 months; Japan (where we lived at one time for more that 3 years) for 3 months and then South America for 6 months. We are so excited and have always loved traveling.
Thanks! So glad you found our channel and your travels sound exciting. We are heading to Japan next year and again in 2025 for the world expo in Osaka.
Safe travels,
John and Bev
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That’s wonderful! Congrats 👍🏾
My observation is that this very very US-centric, which makes sense as you are american. Most budget travelers in Europe would to consider $40k - $60k as a huge luxury. I am 53 and find spending more than $24k a year very very difficult, this includes food, tours, 3x flights back to the UK for SE Asia, lodging mixing resorts and hiring motorbikes, insurance, visas. It also includes maintaining a property in the UK. So if I was to double this, as your budget suggests, I would really live like a king.
Great job. Lots of great bargains to be had, especially in Southeast Asia.
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I travel solo, slow traveler. 1,500 dollars per month. 1/3 lodge, food 1/3, others 1/3. I stay at a place from one to six months depending on the visa period.
Great job.
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I'm solo traveler as well. So that ratio seems right. Thanks!
Thanks for putting this together, love it guys!
Thanks. Glad you found it helpful. John and Bev
Thank you for sharing actual numbers which is so helpful!
Glad you found it helpful. John and Bev
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Excellent detail and info! Keep it coming!
Thanks. So glad you enjoyed it. John and Bev
This is a great video! Well done! Love how you categorized and explained the options! 😃 Well done!
Thanks. Glad you found it helpful 😊 John and Bev
Thank you for sharing all that you have learned and are learning in your adventures.
You are welcome. Glad you are enjoying our channel.
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Thanks John/Bev for sharing. I'm looking forward to more videos and suggestions where to vist. Safe Travels!
Thanks for following along. We are currently spending 3 months in the Balkans and loving it! Great prices, nice people and beautiful countries. John and Bev
This is exact what I am looking for. I will following up with your all videos to start my full time travel plan. Thanks again.
Thanks so much and hope you enjoy our videos.
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I love your videos. I found them very helpful and realistic and doable!
Thanks. Hope you can follow along on our journey around the world.
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This is a fantastic breakdown on a subject matter that I've honestly never thought of! Great stuff.
Thanks. Glad you found it helpful. John and Bev
AMAZING video! Great tips! You and Bev are so close to how I travel with my guy!!! LOVE it!
Thanks. It is a wonderful way to see the world.
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Thanks for the tips and posting - have a great day 🙂
Thanks for following along. Glad you enjoyed the tips. John and Bev
Fairly realistic budget I think, and good points about the cost at home and periodic travel
Thanks. Glad you found it helpful. Costs are increasing everywhere, although we are loving the bargains of the Balkans right now. John and Bev
Great Video. I love the channel because of tips like this. Living the good life on a budget is our goal as well.
Thanks so much. We hope we can inspire and help to live your best retirement life.
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I travelled all the way around the world solo in 2017. It took me two months and cost me $8000. I spent five weeks in Europe then three more weeks heading east to west. I’m now retired and plan to do it again but take longer in more places. The most expensive things for me were the air transportation from one country to the other. I got Airbnb’s with kitchens and bought food from local grocery stores, never ate at a restaurant.
Great job. Thanks for sharing your travel experiences.
Safe travels,
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Very well said and thanks for the tips!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks so much.
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This is really good. Thank you for the various kinds of videos you publish. I like the mixture of locale and this.
Thanks so much. Glad to hear you are enjoying our channel and the various content. John and Bev
Wonderfully informative video! I am really enjoying catching up on your channel since discovering it a month ago. So impressed with all you do! We will spend a month exploring Portugal soon and we are contemplating a next step of a 3-month trip (destinations unknown) next year! Thanks for being so inspiring!
Thanks so much and glad you are enjoying our channel. Consider some in the Balkans. We are in Albania now and loving it. Thanks again, John and Bev
Very precise and helpful information! Thank you
Thanks
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Solid strategy, and lots of information.
Thanks!
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed the information.
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Great video!! Lots of awesome tips!
Thanks. Glad you found it helpful!
Met you both in Medellín during the Comuna 13 tour. Glad to see you're still going strong!
Thanks so much and great to hear from you. We are still going strong and loving our adventure. Thanks for following along. John and Bev
Very informative. Thank you! Really appreciate videos like this as we plan our retirement
Thanks and so glad to hear. We are working on a new project that will hopefully help even more, so stay tuned. 😊 Safe travels, John and Bev
Great detail and guidance
Thanks so much. Glad you found it helpful. John and Bev
Great video guys! I'd say we are budget travelers. We still want to enjoy all a place has to offer but sometimes we just have to spend a bit more.
Thanks guys. We hope all is well. We are budget travelers too when we can find free places to stay in Italy. 😉 John and Bev
Thank you so much for the excellent tips and ideas❤️
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Very informative video! I really liked the triple Venn diagram of Luxury to Budget and Mid-Range in between. My wife Lisa and I are also in that Mid-Range like you guys. Though the three circles simplified things for this video, you rightly allude, John, to the spectrum that each of the circles can be. But without pigeon-holing too much most folks do generally fall in the three categories.
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed the video. We have found it easier to be on the budget end in the Balkans! Some incredible bargains here and beautiful countries. John and Bev
Phenomenal video! thank you!
Thanks. So glad you enjoyed the video.
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This is great info! I didn't know I needed to know this!
Thanks and happy traveling! John and Bev
Found you guys through the power of the algorithm and I’m so glad I did! You’re an amazing inspiration to us younger travellers - and the fact that you also discovered the 1$ train trick with the Great Wall of China told me everything I needed to know about your style :) very similar to ours in our early 30s! If you ever plan on seeing Romania / Austria / UK, ping me anytime. Kind regards, Andra
That's great. We were a little frustrated with the algorithm until a couple of weeks ago, and now so many new people are finding our channel. Hope you enjoy our other videos and good luck with all your travels. We spent an entire month in Romania last summer and loved it. We also spent a week in Vienna (also an amazing place). Thanks for the offer and always like to learn from other travelers.
Safe travels and stay in touch,
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Excellent explanation. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
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WOW! Thank you so much! My wife and I are looking at traveling for the rest of our lives, and this is the most informative video we have seen so far. Thank you!
Thanks. Glad you found it helpful. We absolutely love our life of travel and wish you guys all the best on your journey.
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Brian and Carrie youtube channel is a couple in their ealry 50s. They talk about slow travel and budget (they stay under 30k a year). I think they use Cigna for health insurance for around 3k a year. Find their Q&A videos for more info
Love your videos!!! My plan was to travel 1 month per quarter. Now you are making me see a different approach 😊
Thanks and fantastic. Enjoy your travels and hope you can follow along with us.
Many blessings,
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Wow thanks for this. I'd love to see a video on sites you use to find bargains to travel!!
Great suggestion, thanks. John and Bev
Always like watching you videos. We are in year two of retirement and traveling the world.
Thanks. Glad you are enjoying our channel. Safe travels and keep enjoying your retirement travels.
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Thank you for this video. I just came across your videos about a week ago. For the first time in my life, I'm going to be outside of the USA for at least a month. I'm on a very limited budget but I'm going to be traveling with my eldest child who is economical in the best of ways. We'll be going to Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands & I'm looking to make a stop in the UK to finally meet some long time friends. Safe continued travels around the World.
Thanks so much and good luck with your travels. Glad you are enjoying our channel. You are going to some great places. Check out our website for world travel info and our blogs.
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Interesting ways to look at travel budgeting. Thanks for sharing. You both are so positive and have great energy. I would be interested in what other retirement travel tube channels you follow?
Thanks so much and glad you are enjoying our channel. Lately, we have been so busy with our channel, traveling and scheduling our next trips, we haven’t had much time to follow anyone very closely.
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Really good information... thank you
Thanks. Glad you found it helpful. John and Bev
We like how you've described the different categories of traveller. We thought your slow budget traveller description fits us pretty well, but then what you said about mid-range travellers also resonated with us. The great thing about moving through regions overland is that you really see the subtle variations in food, culture and landscapes as you move from town to town.
Thanks and well stated. Everyone wants to know an exact budget for traveling, but there are just so many variables. We tried to present it in a way to help people better understand. Love following your journey as well. Perhaps our paths will cross some day.
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@@RetirementTravelers we hope so too! 😊
Love your videos. I really liked this video with the budget breakdowns. We are a 40 & 50 something year olds, about to embark on one year of budget travel. I hope we run into you somewhere.
Thanks. Glad you liked our video. Good luck on your travels and we always enjoy meeting people along the way.
Safe travels,
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One of the better videos about full-time travel costs I’ve seen. Thank you! I really liked how you broke out the different category of travelers, and did the cost breakdown based on the average budget traveler. I’m one of those who cannot do full-time yearly travel, but I can do a month at a time a couple times a year. This was valuable information. Thank you!
Thanks so much. Glad you found it help. Safe travels and many blessings.
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Adding my voice to say I would love to know more about mid range to budget travel for those who can only spend a month to 6 months away. I would love to spend 4 to 6 months away every now and then, but I couldn't travel full time due to family commitments.
Great video and very helpful to understanding costs. We would love to do what you are doing someday.
Thanks. Glad you found it helpful and hope you get to do this someday. John and Bev
Thanks for this info
Thanks. Glad you liked it.
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Excellent video! Looking back at our 3 month Europe trip we spent just shy of 3k per month. We did use points for round trip flights from US to Europe. Great tips John thank you!! ~Cara 😊
You guys rock! Now you need to come do another 3-month trip and compare pricing. Call it research.😉 John and Bev
@@RetirementTravelers I agree!!! Also congratulations on over 10K!! 😊
Thanks 😊 John and Bev
My 3 sisters and I recently went on a “7-nites, 3 continents” cruise around the Agean Sea that will probably fall in your mid-range circle that we enjoyed very much. Our age range is 60-74. The Celestyal Cruise Ship was not huge (1200 capacity, we were told there 700 pax on our cruise), not fancy but adequate and efficient. The staff were very helpful and friendly. Shore stops included Cairo for pyramids, Jerusalem & Bethlehem, Cyprus (Limassol) Turkey (Ephesus) and Rhodes, Greece. We embarked in Athens where we did the budget route. Total time was 2 weeks but spent less than $2000, including cruise, tips, meals and hotels + transportation, museum tkts in Athens. (My sis and I flew from 3 different countries, so that does not count the flight to Athens.) Bottom line, the experience was special!
Great video and interesting perspective from an Americans point of view.
We are newly semi retired and classify ourselves as hybrid travellers, we enjoy 5-6 star but love being in a self contained unit/villa so we can have a kitchen and some home comforts…. Hotel rooms for certain locations and special times…
Love your channel- safe travels from Australia!
Thanks so much. Congrats on your semi-retirement. Australia is an amazing country and we plan to spend some more time there next year. We met some friends recently in Sydney and they took us out on their sailboat.
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@@RetirementTravelers - gods own country here….
Shhhhh - do not tell too many lol
These videos are so inspiring . I hope I can do that in the future. ❤
Thanks and we hope you get to travel more.
Safe travels,
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I am a slow budget traveler. My wife and I have been to Iceland 8 times and on a budget. Lodging in Iceland is not expensive if you stay in guest houses. We stayed in a guest house for a week and it cost less than 100 dollars a night. It had a kitchen area where we cooked. The biggest cost was the 4 wheel drive rental car. But most everything else was well within budget. Looking forward to more travels. Thank you Linda and Ben
Thanks for the tips.
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I love yu guys!! We started watching you before we sold everything, retired and started our own world travel. I hope some day that we are in the same area and the same time, so that we might be able to meet up.
Thanks so much. We would love to meet up sometime. Stay in touch and you just never know when our paths may cross.
Safe travels,
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You both are an inspiration to my wife & I! We are in the process of selling everything so we to can travel the world and make some memories.
That is awesome. We love hearing. Best of luck with your journey and hope that our channel continues to help you.
Safe travels and many blessings,
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You are the model for my retiring time (6 yeas left)!!
That's awesome. Best of luck with your retirement planning.
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Amazing video. Very inspiring. We have the same thought and as we have just retired we are going to put our plans into practice,
Now that we have found your channel we will be able to program ourselves better. Thank you for your tips
Thanks so much and you are welcome. Good luck with your retirement travel plans. Hope we can continue to help encourage and inspire.
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Brian and Carrie youtube channel is a couple in their ealry 50s. They talk about slow travrl and budget (they stay under 30k a year). I think they use Cigna for health insurance for around 3k a year. Find their Q&A videos for more info
In Italy, we hired tour guides for many of the sites since that included a "skip the line" ticket too. It's hard to stand in line for hours _and_ then tour the location for several hours too. The Vatican was particularly worth it. We only stood in line for stuff we could not get a guided tour or tickets. After a week, our legs were very sore - so we were happy to be on the way back home.
Skip the line tickets can be great 👍
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Yes. we did the same, Planned our itinerary around pre booked on line skip the line and were able to cover multiple attractions factoring the locations and travel from one event to the next and saved a lot of time. If you are in Rome / Florence that is the way to do it or else will waste your day.
Excellent! Very helpful content. Say hello to Bev!
Thanks. Glad you found it helpful. We wish prices were like the Balkans everywhere. Loving it. John and Bev
Thank you!
You're welcome!
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Fantastic ideas
Glad you think so!
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Great video guy’s! We are working on the same goal! 🎉
You can do it! John and Bev
Highly informative. I am sure you covered medical insurance when traveling before. Thank you.
Thanks so much. John and Bev
Just looked at another Ireland trip in the Spring , we love it and Scotland. Found a highly rated AirBNB for 980 a month. Airline direct round trip flights for 2 at $768 total. The only other big ticket item we are considering is whether to rent a car or not. Car rental is more than the shelter if for a month. So we are thinking car rental to get to the location we are going for a week, then turn it in and use buses the rest of the month. That's $1800 with the rest being groceries, some going out, bus ticket and/or rail passes, fees for some sites, etc. All in all, we plan to spend 3k for the month. You can travel on a budget !
Congrats and great job! You have the right approach to see great things and still travel on a budget. Safe travels, John and Bev
Can you tell me how you got direct, round trip tickets to Ireland for 2 people under $900? That's terrific!
@@bridgetwoodward8031 Use things like Google flight to locate best time to travel. For instance, on the other end of the season, if you leave Aug 5 and come back sept 2 or that week or so, For 2 people it's base 795 round trip with a quick stop in Iceland which we prefer since it breaks up the flight. Depending on bag fees, we travel light and do laundry every week. That brings you in under 900. Or go non stop for a couple hundred more. Piece of cake.
@Bob-yh7ir Okay, Thank you!
In October of 1999 in Germany , 4 of us were budget travelers.. off season.
One night we stayed in a B&B with breakfast for $12.00US dollars. We were the only ones there. A nice experience.
Those are fun travel stories. Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you very helpful.
Thanks. Glad you found it helpful.
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Definitely made it seem "doable"! Once you ditch ALL expenses back in the states (car, home, etc) it appears more realistic. :)
Thanks for the comment. We were amazed how much we would spending on home, insurance, property taxes, HOA fees, golf membership, etc We are much more fulfilled spending on a life of travel and memories.
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This was very very helpful!! I am new to your channel and am really enjoying it. Hoping within the year to be traveling (solo but with my little dog) 6 months of the year outside of Canada.
Thanks so much and glad you are enjoying our channel. Best of luck and safe travels with your little buddy 🐶.
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Very smart and well done
Thanks. Glad you found it helpful.
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Excelent video.
Thanks so much!
When you said you weren’t backpackers, I was about to say “yes, you are backpackers!” I like that you do some budget stuff and some splurges. We are the same way. 👍
Thanks. We are backpackers, we just are getting too old to stay in hostels. Always fun to splurge every now and then, but fun to budget as well. We would walk 5 miles before overpaying for a taxi driver trying to scam us!!!
@@RetirementTravelers yes, it’s easy to get taken advantage of by taxi drivers when you are in a city you don’t know and you don’t speak the language 😉… That’s why it’s such a blessing when there is mass transit available!
I know budgets are a very personal thing, but I do find what Americans consider "budget" as being huge to everyone else.... I'm from the UK and easily fly around Europe, stay on good hotels, do all the tourist stuff and about £1500 easily covers everything, no skimping or thought about what to do needed. Once we head over to Asia or Africa... £1500 is nice and luxurious.
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What are you paying for a good hotel? This would be very helpful info for non-Uk travelers. And bear in mind that “good” is subjective so any links to a nice budget friendly place you have stayed would be a fabulous bit of info to share. Thanks!
That's because our cost to fly is sky high compared to Europeans. That's a huge added cost. I know from London, I flew all the way to Krakow for only $60, a 5 hour flight. It'll cost at least a $700 at cheapest to fly from L.A. to London. Also, what kind of places are you staying at? Even 20 years ago, staying in hostels were still $30 per night or more average. That already is $900 for a month. Add transportation and food and admissions it adds up. I think $4,000 to $5,000 is reasonable for a month for 2 people, so $2000 - $2500 per person, and I wouldn't be staying at hostels when I retire 😂.
Travelled alone as a budget traveller internationally. Always use public transport - a great way to meet local people. Fly on a Tuesday or Wednesday, it's a lot cheaper. In UK never buy train tickets at the station, far cheaper online. Lots of good websites for various places, research before you arrive if possible, but local people are often helpful.
Thanks. Local people are extremely helpful.
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Great video. We are hoping to do the budget travel but we think we can stay under $3k/mo. We plan to start out staying a month at a time wherever we go to save on lodging. We also don’t mind cooking for ourselves on a regular basis. It will be interesting to see how it all works out. We will keep watching and learning from you two. Thanks!
Thanks. Great job and we will be cheering you on. $3000/month is doable, but really tight. Keep us posted and good luck. John and Bev
@Max&Mand We are the same! Trying to learn all we can!
I'm 65 and another great budget idea is HelpX or Workaway. Both are help/culture exchanges. 20hrs work in exchange for free room & food. I've stayed at some amazing places and met so many interesting people this way. It does take a bit of time to sift out the best options, but similar to finding airbnb places.
@@janepassant1186 Hi Jane. Thanks for the tips. I've heard of workaway but how do you actually "sift" through to find the good stays ? How accurate would reviews be if every workawayer has their reviews public, therefore using it to possibly influence a new host for a new workaway. Could you list some places you stayed that were the best ? I have an email on my channel about page if you don't wish to write publicly :) Thank you kindly
This is super helpful. Still hoping to connect with you in NZ when you come.
Hi Sarah, thanks so much. Sadly, we’ve misplaced your previous email. Could you send us another note through our website so we have your email? We are still planning to visit NZ in February. Apologies, John and Bev
On my last vacation, we ate breakfast in our hotel room, ate out everyday with a late lunch, and by dinner time we just wanted a sandwich or something easy. It worked great.
Awesome. Thanks for sharing. We love hotel breakfast!
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Good video. Im in the middle traveling two
Thanks. Glad you found it helpful.
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Excellent video. I'd love to see one on how you got comfortable traveling at such a rapid pace. When we travel we tend to want to get back to our home base after about a month. Any tips?
Great question, thanks. We love seeing our families, so that is the draw to get home. When we are on the road, we stay very busy traveling, sightseeing, trip planning, producing videos, etc We love the challenge of building some new together as retirees and it keeps us focused. We also look forward to the day when our grandkids can hit the road with us during summers, once they get a little older. John and Bev
To secure lodging for $30 a night you are in South America. London and Paris add a zero.
We shopped hard and found a hotel 5 minutes walking from the train station in London downtown and we are $300 a night for 3 adults for a 3 star and looking at all options I felt we did good
If you find a place outside downtown London than your transportation costs go up.
Fantastic break down of cost !!!! This gives anyone a basic outline. Could you do a general system you use when paying for things. How much you take out per month and how you do it? Use a credit card most places, or cash ?? Thanks for all your hard work making these videos !!!
Thanks. We try to use our Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card for everything, so that we get points. Here is the link: www.referyourchasecard.com/19/MPFB3ADRWQ
When we need cash, we use a Capital One debit card because they reimburse international ATM fees. There are a number of places, especially street vendors and lower cost countries that won’t take credit card, so you really need both. John and Bev
@@RetirementTravelers this is a good topic. We, too love our chase sapphire reserve and milk everything we can out of it. We don’t want to get stuck with a lot of foreign currency as we move around. Do you take out a fixed amount on arrival? Guessing you have been on the road long enough now to have a pretty good idea of how much local currency to start with in each region? Any specific guidance appreciated.
Can you do a video on what your typical "moving day" looks like? I enjoy all your content and love learning how you make all this work.
Thanks, that’s a good idea. We do it once a week! John and Bev
GREAT idea! We are planning our inaugural retirement journey based on one week stays. Would love to have all stays be 2-4 weeks but it simply isn’t practical for us. We have decided one week stays with short bus or train journeys will let us soak in a fair amount of a region. And if there is a region that just grabs us heart and soul we can always return for a longer trip on a different segment of the journey. We try to imagine 24 checkins, checkouts, train/bus rides over six months and just can’t quite visualize it.
I love that one week stays are how John and Bev are traveling also. Every single thing about them and their lifestyle and choices jives with ours (except we have no pensions🧐). THRILLED to have found them after weeks of searching for exactly this type of traveler and content.
@@singsongcindy8865 You will be shocked at just how short one week is when you’re in a new, exciting, interesting place. You barely skim the surface and often end up exhausted from trying to see and do everything. I prefer a month to really get to know a place. It’s so cool when locals recognize you at the market and want to talk. A month allows me to fully experience the downtime I had promised myself for retirement. It’s so restorative to spend a whole morning on a balcony enjoying the atmosphere, a coffee, a bit of yoga or to fully experience a sunset from beginning to end because you’re not rushing off to meet some self imposed schedule.
Trying to figure out my budget as a single traveler. I’m currently planning on basing myself in Greece but then flying around from there to different destinations in Europe and Africa
That’s a great place to base your travels. We’ve loved our time in the Balkans and the prices are great, outside of Schengen Zone, so consider spending some time there.
Safe travels, John and Bev
I recently (august 2023) tried out British Airways new route. London to Aruba via Antigua. Flights plus a 4 Star star hotel, bed and breakfast for 7 nights cost £2100 for a solo traveller.
Wow. Thanks for sharing. We love to find great bargains like this.
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Very interesting video! Can you please explain more about the transportation costs, they seem so high compared to other costs like lodging. Thanks!
Thanks and great question. Our transportation costs are higher than many because we travel back to US twice per year and we are traveling at a FAST pace early in our retirement. While we are “young” and able, we wanted to see as much of the world as possible. In a few years, we will slow down and stay places a month at a time. This will significantly reduce our transportation costs.
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Thanks for breaking this down. I’ve traveled internationally as a budget traveler. I’ve also been on several trips with tour groups in order to experience places difficult to get to.
With the roughly $50,000 annual budget for you two I can easily travel within $25,000 annually.
Keep the videos coming.
Thanks so much. We are doing our best to keep them coming. 🤣 So glad you are enjoying the content. Safe travels.
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@@RetirementTravelers so is it correct the budget in the video is cost for 2 people and that I can estimate costs for solo travel to be half to 2/3s the cost? If so - woo hoo - I might be able to manage it if I can get someone to rent out my home (not ready to sell it like you did)
@@kleek2217 honestly, unless you are American you can enjoy more than this on less than half their budget. For Americans, it seems there must be some secret global higher price that we non-Americans dont have to pay. ;-)
@@imcaufieldholt that's interesting. so you think they jack up the prices for americans, eh?
@klee K yes.. there are two prices to many things. To see Taj Mahal ..example local pays 25 rupee where Americans or tourists pays 500 rupees..
I really really really admire your content! You should have been a journalist!
Thanks 😊
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I just found you guys and you are delightful. I can tell Im going to be spending a lot of time watching you videos. Thank you for the product endorsements. I value learning from your experiences/mistakes. Do you think I would get more from your series if I started from the beginning? (Is that a stupid question?) I mean, I could jump around and learn stuff but I think it would be more fun to hear about your experiences in the moment(ok, at least they were in the moment at the time you recorded them.) Thank you and expect lots more questions
So glad you found our channel. We hope you enjoy all the videos. We certainly had a learning curve to go through, so recognize that we had to learn during our early videos. Thanks for following along on our journey and feel free to ask all the questions you want. Safe travels and many blessings.
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Thats great u stayed in makati the business capital of the country. When u get bck to philippines , visit boracay in cebu, cagbalete island in mauban quezon province, enjoy ur visit in canadian rockies! Im from toronto canada
Enjoyed the details! Thanks!! 😃
Thanks for following along! 👍 Much appreciated. John and Bev
THANKS I made notes.....40% Transportation 25% Lodging 20% Food 10% Entertainment 5% Miscellaneous
Thanks. Glad you found it helpful.
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My wife and I have a similar lifestyle. We sold our home in Hawaii, gave away nearly everything, and the remainder (family albums, etc.) is in a 5' x 5' locker. Domestic travel throughout the United States is using a Sprinter RV van. Recently, overseas travel increased to 8 to 10 months per annum. After 9 years as retired nomads, a few concessions were added. The first is business class due to a bad back requiring more comfortable seats on long flights. The second is increased use of cruise lines. The post pandemic prices are currently reasonable off season. The third is overseas health care including dental and vision.
While there are vlogs about independent retirement travel, few address the issue of assisted living and nursing homes. Too expensive in the United States. Better care and lower cost for custodial care overseas.
Thanks for the interesting comment. We do prescriptions and some medical overseas (Colombia). What countries in particular are you referring to on good custodial care?
Thanks
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@@RetirementTravelers My personal choice is the Philippines since I grew up in that country. Cost for caregiver services is about $500 per month. We had to consult several medical doctors during a recent trip, and they charged $20 to $30 per visit. But my wife believes it is too far from our children in Hawaii and California to visit. We are interested in possibly Mexico, Central and South America. In 2021, I had emergency surgery in Quito, Ecuador. The quality of care was excellent.
@@JJReyes-jm5nm Thanks for the info. We had good experiences In Medellin, Colombia.
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@@RetirementTravelers Thanks. I will check it out. We are very happy Medellin, after Pablo Escobar, spent their money for education. Possibly they now have a new generation of highly educated caregivers. My wife and I speak conversational Spanish. (I will be following your vlogs.)
Sounds like fun. I thought about moving over to a "digital nomad" lifestyle once the kids are on their own. I'm currently in IT and there is no reason why I can't do what I do from anywhere with a good Internet connection. Beyond that, it depends how active I am when I'm retired and assuming my 401k recovers from the current situation.
We have found so many great low cost places around the world for digital nomads. We need good internet for what we do. Best of luck on your journey and hope you can follow along with us.
John and Bev
retirementtravelers.com
oh my god，I saw our Medillin guide in your video！
So cool. He is an awesome guide!
John and Bev
retirementtravelers.com
Thank you for taking the time to post this video, I have only just come across your channel and enjoying how informative it is.
A quick question regarding the monthly breakdown of an 50k pa for 2 travelers, I do find the lodging budget of $1041 to be quite astounding, that's $34.70 for 2 people per night. Are these figures just a way of calculating what a couple has available to spend if they have a budget of 50K or actual figures. I would have thought a 50k budget would be good, but looking at your breakdown in that way makes it look quite unachievable. I am looking primarily at Europe and that budget definitely would not work for 12 months.
Thanks. We believe 50K is definitely on the low end. It requires lower cost countries and longer stays. (i.e. monthly rentals much cheaper than nightly) We also spend a couple of months a year staying with family, which can skew the yearly numbers.
Hope this helps,
John and Bev
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We are in a recession. It is very vulnerable to a depression.. Most of us have had our savings dwindle with the cost of living into the stratosphere, we are finding it impossible to replace it. My condolences to anyone like myself retiring in this crisis, it gets tougher by the day.
As a fellow retiree lI totally feel your pain, l'd
suggest you look into passive index fund
investing and learn some more. You should have
looked into earning passive income years ago; its
still never too late to get started. For me I hired
an expert advisor for assistance, and following
her advice, I poured $50k in passive diversified
safe-haven assets and its yielded $175k so far.
Nothing special, just proper diversification and a
cut loss and take profit strategy.
@Richard Owen My advisor is Nancy Ann, she is a one-off fee license advisor and
came highly recommended. You can search her
name on the net to verify, She's well pronounced.
@@adamdiroff4869 The crazy part is that those advisors
are probably outperforming the market and
raising good returns but some are charging fees
over fees drain your portfolio. Is this the case
with yours too?
@@jasonbutler1149 Nah | Cant relate,
Nancy Ann's charge is minimal and very reasonable
when compared to what I benefit in returns.
I feel so excited to see testimonies about
Mrs Nancy Ann again, this means
she's really an expert because there are a lot
of testimonies about her
Great video....would you mind sharing your tour guides info for medellin? Going to Colombia next year
Thanks so much and let us know if we can help you in any way. We spent a month in Medellin and heading back some next year. Here is his link. @kachaycolombiatours. You can contact him on Instagram and his name is Jaime. He is based in Medellin and just a fantastic person. Tell him the Retirement Travelers sent you. 😉 John and Bev
32$ lodging/ night is indeed challenging, tonight you are at a 70$ hotel, so tomorrow, you guys will need to sleep in the street 😊
Ideas : always keep a roof that belongs to you somewhere in the world (rent it short term while not there) & alternate 3 months travel & month=> 1 month home
Thanks for the tips! The short term rental didn't work for us due to HOA restrictions in the neighborhood we were living, but we could see how it could make sense.
Safe travels,
John and Bev
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Great video! I'm 45 and I plan to retire at age 70 or when I have saved $2.5M whichever comes first.
Good luck and hope you have a great retirement. John and Bev
Larry, I reccomend you to read a boom called "Die with zero" very eye opening. Do not waist your 40s and 50s and include travels now. Tomorrow or full health is never guarateed
This budget seems very reasonable. Then general rule I always read for retirement: You can usually go by about 60% of the costs of living you had while working. I am sure you made 200k or more per year before retiring and clever folks as you seem to be you certainly put the necessary amounts aside while working full time. And I am sure you could sell the house better than you bought it, thus you have some additional margin. So my guess is you would end up near double the costs of the budget traveler, because you can afford it - and seem to enjoy every minute (or at least many minutes) of it. Last point: With the effort you put into YT you still do have kind of a job, which brings some revenue too. Not as much as everyone thinks, but with the number of views you have still something. Keep it up and I hope you can keep moving as long as you can and want to!
Thanks for watching and following along on our journey. Selling everything we owned, traveling the world, while starting a TH-cam channel and website has been quite an adventure to say the least.
John and Bev
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