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Yes, we have a son in San Francisco, and a son and daughter in Houston. Kevin’s sisters are in Houston, so we catch them at the same time. My birth mother also is in California, so we catch a flight to see her and her sister’s family after San Francisco. Our time in the US is some of the most expensive travel we have. We only visit once per year and in 2024 we visited for a total of three weeks, but will only be there for two weeks this year. Our 2024 video includes how much we spent while we were in the US, and we have an estimated amount for our trip to the US for 2025. I’ll link those videos below. -Judy 🎥 HOW MUCH DID WE SPEND to travel the world in 2024? 💸 ruclips.net/video/gjDwaTYrB3I/видео.html 🎥 What’s New for 2025: Our Complete Travel and Budget Planning Breakdown ❤️ ruclips.net/video/IkA76TWLvMM/видео.html

I’m not a nutritionist, but I play one on RUclips. 😁 Thanks for watching and commenting! - Kevin

You are right. Morocco is very wow. We were lucky to spend 40+ days there. A link to our full series is below if you’re interested. -Judy 🎥 Morocco Travel Series: ruclips.net/p/PLNT98lWfwdF0_pL4S2LnqlBz2KBX9XMCc

Thanks so much for watching! We also have a longer video that goes through what is Schengen and a lot more info, but this 60-second short really does encapsulate it all. Thanks for watching and for your comment! -Judy

Hi @ livnsji, We really enjoyed our time in Chile. We ended up taking an overnight trip to Viña Del Mar and spent a few hours in Valparaíso (we needed more time there). Santiago is a big city and there's a lot to see and do! -Judy

Hi Noelle and Jonathan, Thanks for watching. This was a fun video to put together on a travel week. It isn't our usual content and it's not getting great traction, but we are glad to have been able to share our bounty from our viewer in Santiago with our audience. I was surprised by all the different flavors! -Judy

Thanks Marion and Jan, We had a blast with this one. It's certainly unconventional, but we felt like it would be so much more fun to share our experience tasting these goodies with our audience than by ourselves! -Judy

@@FindingGinaMarieIt was super fun!! 🥰👍🏼

Hi Pernille, You would have to apply for a visa extension at an immigration office for an additional 30 to 90 days, and it costs about $150 or so. We loved our time in Egypt. Our full series is below. -Judy 🎥 Egypt travel series: ruclips.net/p/PLNT98lWfwdF1WcH9GxfK4ngH49MXf5oOv 📝 Check out our Egypt trip planning guide: findingginamarie.com/articles/egypt-trip-planning

Hi Lisa, We truly had a blast with this one. And it was especially nice because the candies were picked out for us, so they all were a surprise! Thanks so much for watching! -Judy

How fun, Mike! I hope you are having an amazing time! We don't typically buy candy while we're traveling (except for the occasional dark chocolate KitKats when we see them!). I don't know if I've seen these types of bars, but we may have to start looking! It was so nice to meet up with you in Santiago. -Judy

Hi Molly, Thanks so much for watching! Have you seen our video for our travel plans for 2025? We break down that process again if you're interested in watching it. -Judy 🎥 What’s New for 2025: Our Complete Travel and Budget Planning Breakdown ❤️ ruclips.net/video/IkA76TWLvMM/видео.html

Thanks so much for watching, @nncadi1! It's not a popular video and we realize it's a departure from our usual videos, but we had such a great time making it! -Judy

How awesome! Wish our paths could have crossed. Let us know what you think of it! -Judy

Hi David, We don't think you'll regret waiting a bit before visiting Argentina and Iguazu Falls. It's really fairly expensive right now. -Judy

@@FindingGinaMarie I have some trips planned before next year, so I have to wait....🙂

@@davidrice6724 Happy travels. While I want to see everything at once, I'd be very disappointed if I didn't have anything to look forward to! -Judy

Hi Olga, We'd pick Turin. As it stands we've identified Turin and Verona as fairly tied for our favorite cities where we'd consider living in Italy. Genova is interesting, close to Cinque Terre, and as a port city is fairly accessible, but we like how grand Turin feels, and it's accessible as well. We prefer the feel of Turin a bit more though. Great question! -Judy 📝 I ranked our top 7 favorite cities in Italy: findingginamarie.com/articles/i-ranked-our-top-cities-in-italy

@ thank you so much ! Will check out your ranking video now- you got an amazing channel, very helpful !

Thanks for watching, Felicia and Kevin! We may be in our 60s, but who says we can't have fun while we're traveling. This video was such a blast for us to put together! -Judy

Thanks so much for watching! And I guess you're right about the language differences. We add the extra "a" sound in caramel when we're being extra fancy in the US. And you're right about calling them chocolate bars, but because there was an assortment, it's all under the "candy" umbrella. Lollies seems like it would be lollipops, but I guess not! Unless it's dark chocolate for me or a not-too-sour gummy candy for Kevin, we don't eat a lot of snacks like this. It's usually enough if we can get an ice cream or gelato somewhere in between meals. But we thought it would be fun to share our haul with our viewers! We're heading to Melbourne in November and can't wait! -Judy

Hi Ted, Yes, quite a bit different for us, but also super fun. We enjoy watching these types of videos ourselves on occasion, and we couldn't take all this candy with us or eat it all ourselves. This way we felt like we could have a small taste and share it all with our viewers. I am definitely a gelato/ice cream girl over candy, but I do like dark chocolate KitKats. It may be two weeks for our Brazil video. We head to Sacred Valley tomorrow and we won't be able to do our Rio video justice on a busy travel week, but we hope you like what we have planned. No foreign food will be hurt in the process! -Judy

Hi @LogicReel, I could believe it. It really is a very small lane and calling it more of a "lover's lane" might be the more self-respecting term for whatever it actually was involving "romance." -Judy

We had such a fun time with this video. I personally got a kick out of some of Kevin's special effects throughout. Thank you so much for watching, Anthony! -Judy

Thanks for watching, Annette! We'll occasionally have a snack when it's hard to get food easily, but we don't eat a ton of sugar ourselves. Maybe it's slightly better that the chicken is being washed. We only saw it being cut on a short table and then sitting in the sun for who knows how long. Yes, it was an appetite killer. And yes, it was in HCMC. We saw some interesting things in Hanoi as well, but we found a few more nice restaurants there where we felt a tiny bit more comfortable with the hygiene. Thanks for watching, and enjoy your time in Vietnam! -Judy

We talk about "sentimental items" in this video below that might be helpful for you. Digitizing photos, especially on the scale that you may have, can be a massive undertaking. We suggest you consider the best of the best because even if the work is personal, when the amount is so large, you can't enjoy all of it anyway. Thanks so much for watching and for sharing your experience. -Judy 🎥 A Better Way to Declutter Sentimental Stuff | Downsizing for Full-Time Travel and Retirement ❤️ ruclips.net/video/fK_cWyFNnyk/видео.html

LOL. We get it! We certainly couldn't eat all of it, but it was fun to try them all, even if it was only a few bites! -Judy

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Thanks for watching, RA. Yes, we've had zero problems with our 22". We like having the extra inch if we need it, although we definitely aren't overstuffing them anymore after this video. 😉 The place that will get you typically is weight, so you just have to be mindful of that piece. We just had to put our suitcases through a sizer on Sky Airline traveling from Lima to Cusco, Peru, and they both fit easy peasy. And we've found B&R to have top-notch customer service should you ever need it. We have a link for Briggs & Riley on our website, which you can use at no cost to us, but helps support our channel. ⚙️ GEAR LIST: findingGinaMarie.com/gear

It was a very fun episode for us to film, but there was so much candy we could not eat beyond a small taste or two!

Hi Rellie, It depends. We do buy it where we are, but we sometimes take it with us. Our liquids go in our backpacks, not our carry-on suitcases. We have been seeing that certain countries have not required us to remove our liquids, so we will take it with us, even when the bottle is a little larger. Worst case, they will make us get rid of it, but it's also convenient when they don't care. We'll try to buy the smallest bottle we can and because we don't typically hang out on beaches, we don't use as much as others might. -Judy

Hi JJ, their coffee was perfectly hot. We've almost never ever had a problem with our coffee being lukewarm. We get cappuccinos, and it's not unheard of for some people not to steam the milk enough, but that's rarely ever been an issue, and definitely not an issue in Cambodia. The Little Red Fox had great coffee! -Judy 🎥 This is Angkor Wat: ruclips.net/video/HUDJvMsbRAA/видео.html 📝 Champa and Khmer Ginger Cake history/recipe: findingginamarie.com/articles/cham-ginger-cake-ginrong-laya?rq=ginger

@@FindingGinaMarie Thanks. My experience is more in Thailand. I look forward to a hot coffee in Cambodia.

Hi Jerry, This is brilliant and wise. I find ranking to be very subjective and sometimes at the whim of how I'm feeling in the moment. However, I'd love to see a screenshot of your composite process if you wouldn't mind sharing it with us via our email address (info at ...). I'm sorry about your health issues, but I think your method will leave you with a lot fewer regrets if at some point your travel is stymied. Thanks so much for sharing your philosophy and idea. -Judy

We hope you have an incredible time! We loved Morocco. Here's a link to our full series from there! -Judy 🎥 Morocco Travel Series: ruclips.net/p/PLNT98lWfwdF0_pL4S2LnqlBz2KBX9XMCc

Transylvania Alps. We showcase the map, it's the name of the tour we took. The title of this video didn't need to be more complicated than it already was. We hope you enjoyed it otherwise. -Judy

@@FindingGinaMarie The Alps are one of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately 1,200 km across eight Alpine countries: Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia. Not in Romania....your map is wrong...those are the Carpathians.

@@FindingGinaMarie en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpathian_Mountains#/media/File:Geographic_map_of_Carpathian_mountains.svg

@vlasceanucatalin9670 The Transylvanian Alps are a mountain range located in central Romania, forming part of the larger Carpathian Mountains system. They are also commonly referred to as the Southern Carpathians. We aren’t going to argue this with you. -Judy

@@FindingGinaMarie I am Romanian i think i know what i have in my own country ;) it is the fist time in my life when i hear such a thing ,,Alps in Transylvania''...Americans teaching me the geography of my own country....that's funny....🤣😂 try not to hard headed when people are teaching you something.🙏

Hi @dutchcoiner, We had a nice time there, too. Our big regret was that we couldn't visit the inside of the Basílica de la Sagrada Família. Lots more to see in a future visit though! -Judy

Hi Victoria, Definitely not as much as some people. Under a million USD. But we talk in this video about choosing health versus wealth and prioritizing what's important in our lives. We're prepared to living in a lower-cost country when we eventually need to land somewhere permanent due to mobility issues or an inability to travel. These are our "go" years, so we are trying to make the best of them. There are ways to make things work, even if you don't have a huge stockpile of wealth. It's one of many reasons we have a RUclips channel, which helps offset some of our costs. -Judy 📝 Why Our Channel is Called "Finding Gina Marie": findingginamarie.com/articles/why-the-name-finding-gina-marie 🎥 HOW MUCH DID WE SPEND to travel the world in 2024? 💸 ruclips.net/video/gjDwaTYrB3I/видео.html 🎥 What’s New for 2025: Our Complete Travel and Budget Planning Breakdown ❤️ ruclips.net/video/IkA76TWLvMM/видео.html

@@FindingGinaMarie thank you so much for your quick reply, and for your wealth of resources that you are making available!

@ We hope it’s helpful, and don’t hesitate to let us know if you have additional questions or topics you’d like us to discuss in an upcoming video. -Judy

Hi Manu, Our residence is still considered San Francisco because it's where our last-known address was. We still have California driver's licenses, so that means we pay California state taxes and still have to file a federal tax return. We aren't willing to give up our US passports or citizenship even if we end up living in Italy after my dual citizenship comes through. We aren't ready to stop traveling for a very long time, but we still have family in the US and our US passport opens a lot of doors. Here are links to some of the common items to resolve when you are traveling abroad full time. We wish you all the best and are happy to answer any other questions you have! -Judy 📝 Voting While Living Abroad (As a US Citizen): findingginamarie.com/articles/voting-while-living-abroad-as-a-us-citizen 📝 Using eSIMS for international for data: findingginamarie.com/articles/using-esims-for-international-travel 📝 Peace of Mind Abroad: Choosing the Right Health Insurance as Retired Travelers: findingginamarie.com/articles/choosing-the-right-health-insurance-as-retired-travelers ADDITIONAL RESOURCES 🎥 Preparing for Full-Time Travel: ruclips.net/p/PLNT98lWfwdF0Hm94IeHJksaTV37AcdchX 🎥 Navigating Full-Time Travel: ruclips.net/p/PLNT98lWfwdF1PzikjO5wvLLMtOE1UkdvH 🔗 Here's a link to our ever-growing articles for full-time travelers (you can find it by going to our travel tips and then filtering by Nomads): 📝 Articles for Full-Time Travelers: findingginamarie.com/travel-tips/?category=nomads

@@FindingGinaMarie Thanks so much! So do you fill out your tax forms remotely or have you returned to the States to collect all documents and take them to an accountant?

@@manuvital9071 We fill them out online. They aren't terribly complicated since we have less money coming in these days as retirees. And I'm not sure what you mean by collecting all the documents. Everything we need comes to us electronically, so even if we had very complex tax returns, we wouldn't need to return to the US to have an accountant complete them. -Judy 📝 How to Stay Connected to Your Mail While Traveling the World: findingginamarie.com/articles/how-to-stay-connected-to-your-mail-while-traveling-the-world

Hi Victor, Thanks so much for watching. There's so much more to see in Lyon, but we were so glad we could experience what we did. It's a beautiful city! -Judy

We do, too! Thanks so much for watching, Ro! -Judy

Hi @PorntipEngel, Our budget is bigger than a lot of budget travelers. We aren't budget travelers, nor are we luxury travelers. Below are links to how we view money, why we decided to travel now instead of waiting until we had more money, and videos regarding what it cost us to travel in 2024 and our budget for 2025. We save money by not having a home base and we don't plan to live in the US again because we won't have the extra cash reserves. If you travel slower than we do, stay in more budget destinations than us, cook more, do more deep dives in a single country versus the four continents we visited and 16 countries in 2024, there are ways to cut down what you spend to make this lifestyle affordable. -Judy 🎥 Our approach to Money and Budgeting as Retired Full-Time Travelers: ruclips.net/video/77n1y1joh4s/видео.html 🎥 Health versus Wealth: ruclips.net/video/6avQGFbXa2I/видео.html 🎥 Life is Short...An Emotional Pause: ruclips.net/video/YiEFHz1WWHI/видео.html 🎥 HOW MUCH DID WE SPEND to travel the world in 2024? 💸 ruclips.net/video/gjDwaTYrB3I/видео.html 🎥 What’s New for 2025: Our Complete Travel and Budget Planning Breakdown ❤️ ruclips.net/video/IkA76TWLvMM/видео.html 🎥 Why We'll Never Live in the US Again: ruclips.net/video/xeTdMPRgkWM/видео.html 🎥 You don’t have to be an EXPAT to leave the US!: ruclips.net/video/ZeKxy_zxbZE/видео.html

Hi Siobhan, There are a lot of churches in Assisi. We enjoyed our time there and we think it will make an excellent base for day trips to places like Spello, Orvieto, Perugia, and several other places after you've finished covering Assisi, which you probably could do in three or four days. But if you want to only explore Assisi, it's probably not a big enough city to spend that much time exploring. If you read through the comments of this video, some of our viewers have additional sites to visit in Assisi beyond what we saw in our short time there, but still not enough for seven days in my opinion. And bear in mind that it will be cold. Our visit was Feb. 6-14 and there was a sprinkle of snow! -Judy 🎥 Spellbound by Spello: ruclips.net/video/aEG-dCkT6ro/видео.html 🎥 Orvieto, Italy | You MUST see this charming city! ❤️ ruclips.net/video/rFkOeTduLGw/видео.html

We were a bit sweaty and sticky from our visit to Iguazu Falls that day, but no matter. Aqua Restaurant was such a treat and we were so glad to have visited. It was the best Argentine steak experience we had in Argentina. Thanks for watching! -Judy