How Do You Pay for Your Travel?

Over the course of ten years, I visited every country in the world, many of them several times.

When I first started writing about the quest, the most common question I received was, “But how do you pay for that?”

Since then I’ve tried to be very clear on how much it costs to travel—not just for me, but for anyone else. In this post, and in the follow-up on Thursday, I’ll outline my general response to travel and money.

First, Define Your Priorities

Put simply, what do you value?

There’s a prov...