Category Archive: Pre-Trip

Amy’s Round-the-World Packing List

You’ve seen Kieron’s packing list but my one is a little different. See, a lot of people will think I’m overpacking or bringing things that are unnecessary but so far I’m happy with what I’ve got and have used just about everything in my pack. I’ve already briefly touched on my [...]

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Kieron’s Round-the-World Packing List

For some reason, the two of us left the packing for our round-the-world trip until the very last minute. You would have thought we would have learned from previous trips not to make this mistake but fortunately it doesn’t look like we’ve forgotten anything major yet! What can we say? [...]

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The migration to budget-conscious travelers

During our past travels, we haven’t really worried about budgeting. In fact, we were probably doing the exact opposite – saving up a shitload of cash in the lead-up to our holidays and then blowing it all like it was going out of fashion. We treated ourselves to 4-5 star [...]

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The things we’re going to miss while traveling

We recently saw a post by Mike & Ashley of Traveled Earth about the things that they will miss the most as they set off on their round-the-world trip. With our own journey so close to becoming a reality, it got us thinking about what the two of us will [...]

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Amy’s “25 Before 25″ List

After seeing countless bucket lists, I decided it was time for me to make my own list. So I started writing down “25 things I want to do before turning 25” and hope to achieve these before my 25th birthday on the 5th of March 2012. To be able to [...]

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Fast-paced travel just isn’t our style!

You know what? Short trips can totally suck. Sure, the experiences you have are still fantastic, but believe us when we say that there’s also a lot to hate about shorter holidays! We’ve written previously about why we’ve chosen long-term travel over the standard 2-4 week vacation each year and [...]

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Backpack vs. suitcase? Our decision.

With 85 days until our round-the-world adventure, each day of planning and pre-trip preparation is becoming more and more important. With that in mind, we recently journeyed to the nearby outdoor supplies store determined to find ourselves some backpacks for our upcoming travels. After spending nearly an hour browsing and [...]

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RTW Destination #1: Hawaii

Decisions. It seems like we’ve been making plenty of them lately for our round-the-world adventure but that’s just part of the fun, right? Firstly we had to choose between Fiji or Hawaii as to which would be the first stop on our travels. After nearly a month of consideration, we [...]

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