Comments on: Perpetual travel not for everyone

By: Christie

Christie — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:09:10 +0000

Some friends of mine saved up for a year, living off of one income and saving the second, and are now touring the world for a year before one starts law school and the other med school.

I don’t know if my marriage would survive constant travel but I’m pretty sure we would really enjoy parking it over in Italy for a year and taking the occasional jaunt to other countries via train.

Now all I need is that winning lotto ticket…

By: Kathrine

Kathrine — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:56:15 +0000

I also read Tim Ferriss’ blog and always think he makes it looks so easy to just…travel…wish I can do the same and not have to worry about rent, food, etc.

By: Kelby

Kelby — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:31:38 +0000

Hello. Just to be devil’s advocate here, I just want to say it definitely is harder to do extended travel with kids… but not impossible. We left everything behind, sold our house, sold our cars and moved to France for a year with our daughter when she was 1. She spent most of our time there traveling. It was definitely challenging (and I’m not sure I would have it in me now that the twins are here), but it’s doable. It was also probably the single most amazing part of my life so far. We are talking about perhaps doing a summer in France next year…. or maybe even renting an RV and doing an extended road trip around the U.S. and Canada.

By: Ron Miller

Ron Miller — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:27:02 +0000

Dave,
Having a family doesn’t mean you can’t travel. My wife and I share a passion for traveling and we have instilled it in our kids. Both our children were on airplanes before they were three months old (contrasted with me who didn’t get on one until I was 26).

My wife is German, which means we have an excuse to travel to Europe with the kids, but even if we didn’t, I’m sure we would.

My car is a 14 year old Toyota Corolla Wagon. My wife’s is an 8 year old Mazda Protoge. We love to travel, so we cut it in other places like cars.

And you don’t necessarily have to get on plane with kids. You can go to lots of great place right in New England and Canada is in driving distance.

One story: When my son was 2, he liked to push his own stroller. That was fine when we were in a park with open space, but not an airport. We were getting off a plane in London and he went ballistic because he couldn’t push the stroller. Suddenly a nice British lady came over and lead us straight to the counter past a long line of people waiting to clear customs. It was the most timely tantrum of all time. Saved us a huge wait in a long customs line.