Around the World Blog Carnival #1

By Luke, on August 13, 2009, 9:00 pm

Welcome to the first edition of my Round the world blog carnival.

Matt has some light reading to start you off, Aparnetly there are 8 types of backpacker, What type of backpacker are you?

Katie Sorene presents 25 Signs that You’re a True Citizen of the World | Travel Blog – Tripbase posted at Travel Blog – Tripbase.

Countries

Liz Wright presents Travelogged: The Best Views in Istanbul posted at Travelogged, saying, “This isn’t from a RTW trip, but it’s good advice for if you’re stopping in Istanbul on your way around the world.” One word about the pictures, WOW!

Chris presents The Tricycle Diaries – an Idea becomes Reality posted at nomad4ever. A journey through bali, what a way to explore a country.

One Family presents Cancun Trip Report posted at One Family’s Blog, saying, “A frugal family trip report to Cancun, Mexico.” This blog has some fantastic Around the World Blog Carnival #1

August 13th, 2009 | Tags: Budgeting, Money, Opinions, People, Pictures, Reasons, Saving, tips | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Why do we work 75 hour weeks? A travellers perspective

By Luke, on July 26, 2009, 2:35 pm

I am certainly one of those people who works to live and not the other way round. This is of course why I want to travel around the world. Living is about getting the things you want out of life, for me and allot of others out there the things I want I believe I can find in travel once i have the money. Why do we work 75 hour weeks? A travellers perspective

July 26th, 2009 | Tags: Money, Planning, Saving, Thoughts, Work | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Saving to Travel Around The World

By Luke, on July 18, 2009, 11:14 am

These are my first thoughts on saving money to travel around the world. I have given this some thought after looking at a couple of other blogs for tips about saving, there are so many which talk through ways to save money with coupons etc. There are not so many which talk about not spending money, not impulse buying and only buy what you cant live without.

Saving involves not spending

Savings with Sadie has some interesting money saving tips for you Americans out there. How I save money has some great tips on budgeting and saving long term which is also well worth a read. Fantastic, we learn how to save money when we go out and buy our groceries, toiletries and every thing else we need. For me what so many of these blogs do not address are the impulses that we have (apologies if I have Saving to Travel Around The World

July 18th, 2009 | Tags: Budgeting, Money, Planning, Saving, Thoughts, tips | Category: Budgeting, Planning | 5 comments

The last 3 years. . . Budget??

By Luke, on May 5, 2009, 5:16 pm

My first thoughts on budgeting, from the past to the future. . . by journey begins now The last 3 years. . . Budget??

May 5th, 2009 | Tags: Budgeting, Money, Thoughts | Category: Budgeting | Leave a comment