One Year of Slow Travel in Our 50s: Full Cost Breakdown

Most people think full-time international travel is either ridiculously expensive or crazy cheap. >> After a whole year of tracking all of our expenses, we finally know what full-time travel actually costs for us. >> When we embarked on our second year of full-time travel, we began tracking every single dollar we spent. We've always been careful with our money and

set budgets for ourselves throughout our lives, but we had never until now tracked every single dollar for an entire year. >> I'm Derek. >> And I'm Kathy. >> And we're a semi-retired couple in our 50s who got rid of all of our stuff in 2024 to travel the world full-time. >> And this is Good Life Road.

Our total accommodation costs for the year were $31,817. That's an average cost of $2,651 per month. >> To help give a relative cost for our monthly stays, we're going to share with you the cost for each of our stays where we stayed for a month or longer. Um an Airbnb um gives a a a monthly rate discount at

the 28-day mark, so that's how we're defining a month is at the 28 days each location. >> We began our year with a stay in a cute Airbnb in Genoa, Italy, and from there we did multiple day trips to the cute little towns on the Ligurian coast, such as Portofino and Camogli, which was our

favorite. >> We also went on a few multi-day getaways from Genoa. First of all, we went to Turin and Asti by train, then we went to Nice by train, and then we took a train and then got a car for a road trip through Tuscany for our anniversary. >> The average monthly cost for our stay in

Genoa, which also includes the seven nights of those little day trips or getaways that Derek mentioned, was $1,763. I do want to give a little caveat with why the price was so low in Genoa, and that's because we stayed in a little Airbnb that was up a hillside. Now, while we love the Airbnb