Our Journey: Why It Took So Long to Fund a 6-Month Sabbatical Let me begin by saying that I’ve dreamed of a ‘proper’ trip for many years. I distinctly remember, as a teenager, gazing at Google images of Bagan, Myanmar, and vowing I would visit one day. Now, having fulfilled that dream, during a short-ish […]
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Our Dream Trip: Delayed But Definitely Not Dead! About six years ago, Mary-Ann and I came up with a plan. It wasn’t particularly unique or fantastic, but it would afford us a six-month backpacking trip. Our strategy was simple: maximise savings by increasing our income and cutting costs like our lives depended on it. Two
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Balancing Your World with Wanderlust – Do You Really Need to be a ‘Nomad’? I suspect that if you’re reading this, you’ve recently gazed longingly at those almost ethereal people online. You know, the ones who spend their days deciding between an ice bath with a coconut or a wellness retreat in the serene Indonesian
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Travel on a time budget: Five top places for ‘mini’ travel trips You’ve got a steady job, an acceptable income, and hopefully a plan to take a sabbatical for a longer-term trip in the future! But there’s a chunk of time between now and that sabbatical, and you have at least twenty days of annual
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