I don’t typically travel this much.
I did a bit of travelling (over longer periods of time) in my late teens/early twenties.
Once i had kids travelling was focused mostly on visiting my husbands family in New Brunswick and of course a trip to Disney Florida for the kids.
For my 40th, I travelled through the south west of the US.
And once I was diagnosed with PPMS (primary progressive multiple sclerosis), I wrote a bucket list and started travelling more frequently. Paris, Greece, Cape Breton, Montreal, California, Arizona, and recently Costa Rica.
I am very fortunate to be able to take these trips. I wouldn’t say lucky because nobody gave me these trips. I’ve been saving money on a weekly basis since I was 16. Saving specifically for trips. Of course I also save for others things like life’s necessities. And I just don’t spend more then that. I never borrow. That’s it, that’s my strategy. I picked travel over many other things. It’s not luck, we simply do what needs to be done in order to take the path we dream of. And sometimes it works out (I’m travelling), and sometimes things don’t work out how you planned (I’m sick).
Ideally me and my husband would of travelled in our retirement age, but unfortunately I may not be doing much by the time Dean reaches his retirement. Or in 2-3 years for that matter. I wasn’t sure what to do. I have a progressive disease, there’s no cure, I have all this saved money and an unknown future. Then one day we were having Chinese and I got a fortune cookie that said “it’s now or never”. I knew then what I had to do. So yes we’ve been travelling lots, and I will continue to do so for as long as I can.