After quitting our jobs to take a Gap Year at the beginning of 2018, Becky and I spent a full year traveling around the country. It was an absolutely amazing experience where we visited over 100 cities, met up with numerous friends and family, and added over 24,000 miles to our little hatchback’s odometer. We […]
Category: Gap Year
Hotel Stats from a Year on the Road
Having recently wrapped up a year-long adventure that took us all over the country and beyond, I wanted to share some of our lodging stats from the last 12 months. We stayed in a variety of different places, but as you may have gleaned from the title, the majority were in spent in hotels. Thanks […]
Gap Year Week 52: Back to Reality
One year ago, my wife and I set out on an amazing adventure across the country. After a handful of years working full time and saving money towards our goal of financial independence (FI), we decided to leverage some of that financial freedom ahead of our ultimate goal. Therefore, we quit our jobs to take […]
Gap Year Spending Month 11 – $6,974.05
Whelp… We thought November was bad at just over $5k in spending, but December snuck up on us with the highest expenses to date! The month started with the 2nd half of our Caribbean cruise, then Disney and Universal happened, and don’t forget about Christmas. It was a perfect storm of expenses than sent our […]
Gap Year Spending Month 10 – $5,096.87
Month 10 marks the most we’ve spent to date during our Gap Year Adventure (and not by a small margin). November started out similar to many of our other months, but we decided to splurge a little bit towards the end and hopped on a long cruise around the Carribean! The mini-vacation within our vacation […]
Gap Year Spending Month 9 – $3,640.03
Another month of traveling around the country full time is in the books and spending time in New England wasn’t cheap. Honestly, it wasn’t that expensive relative to a typical month of living in Seattle either! We started the month outside of beautiful Acadia National Park and finished it in Richmond Virginia after a whirlwind […]
Gap Year Spending Month 8 – $3,116.12
Starting from Seattle in February, my wife and I have now spent 8 full months traveling across the country! We’ve never tried anything like this before, so we had no idea how much our adventure would cost. Therefore, we are tracking every penny spent and keeping a running tally here on the blog. This has […]
Gap Year Spending Month 7 – $1,605.04
Another month of adventuring around the country is in the books and we’ve once again broken our record for lowest amount of spending! We started the month with friends and family in Indianapolis before making our way north to Minneapolis for another amazing CampFI! We finished the month making our way through Wisconsin on the […]
Gap Year Spending Month 6 – $2,136.15
We have officially been on the road for 6 whole months! Starting from Seattle in February, we’ve driven thousands of miles, visited over a dozen different states, and had enough unique experiences to fill a decade. And we’re not even halfway done! July has not only been our lowest month of spending on this trip, […]
Gap Year Spending Month 5 – $2.895.11
It’s hard to believe we’re approaching the halfway point of our Gap Year Adventure. Since leaving Seattle in February, Becky and I have traveled over 12,000 miles in our car and visited over a dozen different states! While we’ve chosen to slow down a bit during the summer to spend time with friends and family […]