Many people like the thought of prolonged travel lifestyle where you take months or maybe several years to travel across the globe, seeing the world. It may have first started from the romantic notion of exploring the world with your loved ones, or from any movie that shows off far away landscapes and journeys. It really isn't as easy as jumping on a flight, unless you're really wealthy, and most travel takes some forethought about planning, budgets, timing, etc.
Planning a long-term trip is essential with aspects which includes personal travel insurance, air flights as well as overall regions. It would be recommended to invest in a long-term travelling guide to ensure your trip is planned effectively. While preparing every day and attraction isn't essential(often the best finds are made just by making it up as you go), making a list of your top attractions is a great start, and study into the areas should be done. This may help you in the future when you want to visit a country that needs a special visa or even vaccines. You would also be ready to plan out different seasons, if you don't want to far northern or southern places during winter. Planning out your timing for just how long to remain in one location might be done ahead of time as well. Paris and surrounding area could take two weeks, while Istanbul may be only 3-4 days.
Unless you are retired, or living off an inheritance, you're likely to to need to establish a spending plan for your journey. If you're aiming to travel for 12 months, you'll need to know the amount of money you can spend on a weekly and monthly basis, to ensure that you are not suddenly going to run short of funds half way through your travels. One great way to do that is to set up two seperate bank accounts: one for your overall spending money, then one for a weekly spending budget. Then each week you'll just be able to spend the weekly budget, and then at the end of the week top up with your overall account.
You may also wish to consider earning money while traveling. There are websites that provide you links to short-term work while traveling and some hostels will let you stay at no cost with a couple hours of cleaning or kitchen work as well. You can even propose a deal with a travel blog or magazine to create daily articles or podcasts. Alternatively, in the preparing process if you can obtain a passive income arrangement, which could include website advertising or creating an ebook, you could continually supplement your travels.
Overall, long-term travel is not something to simply leap into, but should be planned, and thought out. Invest some time into finding destinations, hostels, areas to see, before you decide to even plan a start date. Get a look at good quality travel guidebooks, search Yahoo and Google for long term travel blogs, and really examine where you want to end up. The earth has a great number of wonderful things to see in it, so spend some time and make the journey count.
