Originally Posted by Traveler
TourBike; you did it, converted a "lurker" to a "poster". My wife and I are actively planning a 5+ year RTW trip, and I check this forum regularly for ideas, link recommedations, etc. I'm 46 at the moment and we are departing June 2007, leaving the corporate rat race behind forever. We figure expenses at 15K per year - give or take. Where the journey takes us at the end we do not care. I'll miss family and friends, but not the buissness world, 60+ hr workweeks and suburbia..
Yay! And welcome. I am excited for you...
15K seems sufficient for two per year? I am not saying this to be contradictory, I am just curious on what calculations you've made to come to this figure. I am a very cheap traveler, so I would probably agree, but just because I am a little freaked out on the idea of going broke on the road, I high-balled my first estimate to double, which makes it an almost absurd amount to travel with. Given your estimate, I could do my three years+ for $45,000, more than half my estimate.
Congratulations on your "escape"!