The decision was made! We are leaving on a 6 months around the world trip. Vacating our apartment, selling and donating most of the things we own. The rest we are putting in storage for now. We have discussed travel, world schooling, remote work and digital nomads lifestyle concepts with my spouse for a couple of years now. After we sold a property we owned in February of last year the idea of us trying these concepts out started to shape into reality.
I have resigned from my 6 figure paying job recently and will be contributing only as a consultant in the future. My 7 year old son got a go ahead from his Montessori school principal. They were very accepting and apparently we are not the first family to do this. They are keeping his spot for grade 3. He will learn way more on this trip than his peers will in class for sure.
Our plan so far is to Visit 40 cities in 22 countries for a total travel of 57884 km / 35969 miles
World Trip map:
Insurance
After some research we have purchased travel insurance from World Nomads. Their price and coverage seems to be the best for the type of travel we will be doing. The cost for our world trip for 6 months came to around $900.
Flights
We have primarily used the following websites to find and purchase flights:
We did book some hotels, but most of our accommodation was booked trough AirBnB.If you haven't signed for an AirBnB account yet, you can get $30 towards your travel by using this link: http://www.airbnb.ca/c/aentcheva.
World Trip Finances
Still cash is the best option in most countries around the world, but bringing a lot of cash with you is not practical for many reasons that I will not get into for the purposes of this post. Here is how we prepared to meet our financial needs on this trip and minimize to almost 0 any expenses related to currency conversion or other transaction fees.
Although we will be purchasing sim cards in most countries as this is by far the best option I still purchased One SimCard. It's a great backup with decent rates for data and calling. Credits I purchased do not expire for 12 months. I can recharge online and getting calls is free on the primary Estonian number in most countries. You can purchase additional local PENs for US, Canada and many other countries.
