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How to Blow $100k Chasing Your Dreams

You didn’t miss read the title, there isn’t an extra zero in there. Sometimes I wish that number was wrong, or we didn’t do such a good job keeping track of every penny we spent. But then again I wouldn’t want many of those pennies back, we spent them. We spent them doing the things we love. We spent them experiencing the world to the fullest. Sure we could have been cheaper, we could have jumped off a few less things, gone a few less places, tried one less traditional dish, but that wasn’t the point. The point was to see the world. Every last penny, Quetzal, Peso, Lira, Euro, Kwacha, Bhat, Dong, Reil, Dirham, Cordoba, and Rand we spent got jotted down in our little red book. It’s pages are now full and the edges a little ragged, but it has to the decimal point every bit of money we spent on our round-the-world trip. After two years of travel we spent exactly $99,987.34. Since we calculated that number I am sure we have spent the remaining twelve dollars and change. There we said it,...