Daily Archive for April 3rd, 2008

Is living on the road so expensive?

At work today I used my spare time in between serving customers to make a tally of how long I’d be spending in each country and how much it would cost. I got to a year and then stopped and guess how much my estimate was, including flights? only $20,000.

That’s Australian, mind you. Which makes it about $18,500 USD$. Now that is without giving myself any lee-way for splurges or emergencies, but add on $5000 and $25,000 is still not all that much for a year’s living - especially living where ever i want, whenever i want, just traveling and exploring. Sounds like the life for me.

To put this into context, that’s only about $2100 each month which is a fair bit less than most people’s income. So, my question to anyone who reads this is; Do you think you could survive on $25,000 a year?