The PERFECT RETIREMENT Travel Pace: Uncovering the Truth on Slow Travel vs. Fast Travel
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- Are you looking to plan the Perfect Retirement travels? Deciding on the best travel style for you can be a tough choice, slow travel vs. fast travel - which one fits you best? Join us in "The Perfect Retirement Travel Pace" as we spill the beans on how to find YOUR ideal speed for globe-trotting fun!
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Would love to see a video of y’all discussing the places you wish you had 6 weeks and the places you thought 2 weeks were more than enough. The +1 month places and the -1 month places. You guys are reasonable and delicate enough to make the video without offending a people group or culture. It is y’all’s opinion after all.
You guys have inspired my wife and I to start slow travel/flexpat/slomad whatever you want to call it.
Great video idea and one we plan to have in the next few months. Somewhat a recap of our past two years of travel and where we would return to and for how long. Thanks so much for watching! Cheers 🍻
We are slow travelers. We have been in Prague for a month, however, we have taken 5 daytrips (usually 1.5 hrs away by train or bus). These daytrips were incredible. So folks don't forget the daytrips.
Yes, the day trips really give you the opportunity to see so much more territory! Safe travels - Cheers 🍻
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Great video. As slow travelers, we couldn't agree more, especially with the three week cut off to a bit of boredom. However, when we match locations to our big picture interests and pleasure (I'm a rockhound, husband is a plein air artist. Both hikers, bicyclers, tennis players) we're able to stave off the boredom. Thanks for all your ongoing insight! Always love it.
Slow Travel is definitely my choice. I want to unpack, settle in, absorb the culture, get a feel for the place and experience day to day life. Fast travel is what I did on vacations while I was working full time, trying to jam in as much as I could into those 10 days or 2 weeks. And like you, so many times I found myself not remembering places or experiences because I was trying to do too much.. My travel now is not about "collecting" cities or stamps in a passport... it's about slowing down and truly being present to experience and appreciate where I am at any given time. Good luck and happy travels!! Thanks for the videos!
Thank you for watching and commenting, Colleen. ❤
Great video! We enjoy the coffee talk videos so much! It’s like hearing advice from friends about the lifestyle we’re interested in and planning to do. Please don’t think it’s boring! It’s exactly what we’re looking for!
Thank you so much for this comment ♥. We've been doing a lot of regrouping lately and have been having this exact discussion. We have many many more of this style video planned and welcome ideas on topics our viewers are looking for. Cheers!!
OMG my husband and I were just talking about the "not remembering where the bathroom is" part of traveling around all the time! It's definitely a thing, especially for anyone over 50 😂
Good video. We are slow retired travelers also. At least one month in each Airbnb. Need a combination of routine real life along with the sightseeing.
We were just taking about our two recent months in Split: Get up early, walk around Marjan Park, take an early morning swim in the Adriatic, have a morning coffee and pastry while sitting on a bench on the Riva, walk to the bakery and market, take a nap, read a book, or watch a movie. Do the same the next day or take a day trip or longer walk around town a couple days a week. Find an occasional local concert or play. Take a local exercise or art class. Basically build a routine and live a normal life.
That’s our approach to travel.
We enjoy your discussion videos the best and you are naturals at the format.
That sounds like a great life to us! We loved Split for all those reasons that you mention.
Thank you for watching and confirming what we are thinking on the direction of this channel!! We appreciate all the support! ❤
You guys are definitely a part of my Saturday routine that I look forward to, and your slow style of travel is part of it (as are, of course, Brian's hilariousness, and Carrie's reaction to it, subtly shaking her head and silently mouthing "no, he didn't"). I really appreciate the closer look into what it might be like to actually live in the places you've gone and the comparisons to different areas of the world (Europe vs. SE Asia). My own travel has always been fast travel other than the really, really slow travel I did as kid, living in Greece and Germany.
Thank you so much - we love being part of your Saturday routine. We truly feel blessed to be doing what we are doing and hearing from others that they enjoy our content motivates us to continue doing what we are doing. Thanks again for your support! Cheers 🍻
I first found your channel when you were in Spain, as I was researching Spain as an expat destination. I'm a dual U.S. and Italian citizen, and plan to settle down in the E.U., but still be able to travel from that home base. When I do travel these days, I like to be a "temporary local" with the same coffee shop, bar, restaurants etc. I like to get the feel for what it would be like to live here. I'm definitely the slow-travel type, and not full time. I always want to have a place to call home. Thanks for all you do, I enjoy my saturday mornings with you!
That’s the term I love as well - temporary local!
Hi Mike! Thank you as always for your wonderful continued support ♥. We absolutely agree, having a base to travel from would be ideal. For now, we try our best to find that "feel" of home by being somewhere a bit longer to settle in. Thanks again - Cheers 🍻
You two are hilarious and I love how you tell it like it is, dirty clothes and all. Travelling is amazing, but it can be work! As you said, the amount of researching, planning, reserving, etc takes time if you want to maximize your experience, especially for fast travel. I'm with you guys, slow travel is the way to go, with the occasional fast travel mixed in. Keep the great videos coming, it's part of my Saturday morning routine (routines are ok!).
We appreciate your kind words and making us part of your Saturday routine (love a good routine). Finding that balance that works for each of us is so key - a little trial and error and we are narrowing it down....slow travel for the win! Cheers!!
What a great video! Thanks for sharing. My wife and I currently live in Spain and are looking at starting slow travel next summer. We’re thinking two months per location to feel a little more like home and not be rushed. You provided some very good info!!
Thank you for watching, William. We are looking forward to slowing back down to our normal pace. We may have an extra stop here and there but honestly believe that if you have the time, slow travel is the way to go. Thanks again!
Cheers!!🍻
Hello, and glad you're slowing down.
We are in our 50's, retiring in a year and plan on slow budget travel abroad as well. We were looking at your original videos and if I may say, even though the production value now is better, we enjoyed the early videos better, when it was more about you two living, groceries, etc. Sightseeing was a major part, but not 100%. Now that you're slow traveling again, maybe you can do some of those market prices, how to get around, currency exchange, and other daily life tips. Especially on a budget, which we will be as well, we would enjoy that information more than the sights alone, as those intangibles are what will help people like us decide if the location is for us or not. BTW. If ever were in the same place we'd like to treat you two to dinner as a thanks for great videos. ❤ R&A
Agree with my hunny. We always enjoyed your pros/cons videos. Thanks for great sharing your life with us.😊
Hi R&A! We totally love the feedback ☺. This actually was something we've been going over this past month and have made the decision to get back to where we first started. Giving more focus to the budget travel lifestyle and helpful tips we've learned along the way. Thank you so much for continuing to follow along, we really appreciate it ♥. Cheers!!
Thank you so much! We are getting back on track and will be bringing you much more of that content. Cheers ☺
Straight up. At 68 years old solo traveler, slower (slower) travel is for me. Thanks for the European invite.
Thank you for watching!!!
My first trip to Europe in 2003, I took the midnight train from Amsterdam to Zurich. From Zurich, I took a midnight train to Venice. This saved me 2 nights of expensive lodging. My morning to midnight day in Switzerland I caught a train to Geneva, walked around there for a few hours, and then caught a train up to Mount Titlis, the highest point in Europe. They were skiing ⛷️ that mountain in a driving snowfall in mid-May. I had an unfiltered beer 🍻 at the highest bar in Europe. And then I returned to catch the midnight train 🚊 to Venice. Even though it’s been 21 years, the day I spent in the Swiss Alps was very memorable ❤
A beer in the snow in the Swiss Alps? That does sound amazing!! You will have a great time in SE Asia. We would like to hear a follow up to the cruise.
Hi Carrie and Brian. My husband and I are currently vacationing in Paris and the Loire valley for two weeks and we have stayed in 6 places. This limited sampling of fast travel has led me to believe that you are completely right. Fast travel is hard! Fast travel is challenging for many reasons, but the central reason involves lack of routine and loss of healthy eating habits. I hope to slow travel the next time we vacation.
We full time travel with our kids and I totally agree! It's really hard to get into a routine during faster stretches. The constant research of new places, packing/unpacking, getting your bearings and then leaving is tough. We much prefer the slow pace! Hope you enjoy Paris! One of my favorite places
The loss of healthy eating is something that we really struggle with. We need a kitchen and a nearby grocery store. Slow traveling and the routine that comes with it is what keeps us sane. Mental and physical health are the most important things we have, and we plan on keeping them!! ❤
We retired (early) in March and spent two months in Europe - one in the Algarve (thanks for your videos) and one in Puglia. We have fast traveled many times, packing as much as possible into two or three weeks. I 100% agree with everything you said in this video and we found that slow travel is for us. One thing that helped us from getting bored was that we had family and friend visits sprinkled throughout our time. This gave us a good balance of time alone and allowed us to look forward to and plan for visitors, during which we were more busy and on the go. Your videos helped spark this type of travel in us and we are busy planning our next two month itinerary. Cheers 😃
We love the Algarve and just left Puglia last week. We didn't do a video on the region simply because we needed a break and what better place to do so? A little vacation from RUclips! 😀 Thank you so much for watching and commenting!! ❤
We plan to spend a couple weeks in Algarve or Puglia this June. How do they compare? Dave
Great video. My wife and I talked about slow travel in retirement. We travel a lot now while we are working. Your channel has solidified our plans. We have just over 2 years to plan this out.
Two years will go by in no time at all!! Thank you so much for watching our channel and supporting us! ❤
You’re right on! We’ve experienced all those things you mention! Slow travel requires a different mindset; it’s a lifestyle, not “on vacation.” (At home, we’re not going, going every day.) We do burn out as well. We get tired of the decisions too. The planning, researching and booking takes endless amounts of time and then blogging as I do, or vlogging as you do - is work. But, the missing seeing things you want to see is VERY REAL. Slow travel is the way to go, except for a short period once in a while through expensive locations or high season. After two weeks in one place, is when I finally am able to unwind enough to read a book or two.
Pretty soon, you’ll be thinking, I just want 2-3 months in one country!
We just finished up 11 nights fast traveling through Egypt and every move gets so expensive: get to the station, the transportation, get to the accommodation, gratuities, etc. When we move every few days we can’t remember our hotel room number! 303? No that was the last hotel!
I look forward to your Italy videos.
We’ll be in Bologna pretty soon. Ciao!
This made me chuckle as we could 100% relate. We moved so quick that stretch that it seemed every stop we were questioning which room number we were in. I made sure to carry the paper sleeve they give you the key card in as the number written on it. Otherwise we would have been at the front desk having to ask 😂😂. Slow travel is the way to go for us and your totally on point that it's a lifestyle. Cheers 🍻
Truth. I got burned out after two months then stayes in one city for one month. So worth it.
Yes, slow travel is for sure the way to go for us. Cheers!!
Thanks for youre honestie !....love it
Thank you for watching, Albert!
Really enjoyed this video guys. Thanks. Safe travels and take care.
Thank you, Kim! ❤
Great video. Lots to think about. Looking forward to some slow travel next year.
Thanks so much for watching!! Cheers 🍻
I love your videos and I have been watching for a while. One of my main issues with longer travel was eating healthy. We are very much heathly eaters so this is a definate concern for us. Thanks for your insight.
You video quality just keeps getting better. Great job. Keep doing what your doing
We appreciate that! Thank you so much for watching and following along ♥
Thanks!
Thank you so much ❤️. We really appreciate your support.
Great video with a thorough analysis of the different styles of traveling. The extra planning required, the frequent packing and unpacking, and the potential for burnout are the main negatives that make me prefer traveling slower. Having the opportunity to experience and live in the location, meet people, feel comfortable in the neighborhood, have it start to feel like home, rather than only having time to quickly see the main sights and move on, is a much better method of travel for me. But to each their own. I think each person/couple needs to figure out what works best for them. You just have to get out there and try things out and learn by trial and error what you like best. Thanks for all of your great videos! Love following your adventures!
Very true, Jim! We have changed the way we do things a few times. Trial and error and just figuring out what works is part of the adventure. Thank you for watching and commenting!!
Cheers!!🍻
Very interesting topic i havent thought about and glad i watched thanks!!
Thank you, Dan!!
Cheers!!🍻
Thanks! Love all your videos, beer for Brian
Thank you so much ❤️. We really appreciate your support.
Ditto to what TexasDoug said. You guys do a great job so please don't take any of the negative comments personally. I really enjoy your videos and hope to follow in your footsteps soon. Because of your videos about Poland, I decided to add that to my "A" list. Keep em coming!
Thank you so much Carol ☺. We don't worry about negative comments, you can't be everyone's cup of tea! You will love Poland, and we look forward to having the opportunity to spend so much more time there exploring. Cheers!!
My wife and I love watching these videos. Thank you!
Glad you like them! Cheers 🍻
My plan has been slow travel, and this video really helped to cement that plan for me - thank you for all the straight forward and honest sharing, it helps the rest of us so much! And others' comments on the comedy factor... so true!
We love the slow travel lifestyle and plan to continue as long as we can. Maybe someday even find a place to stop for 3 to 6 months. Thank you for watching!!
Cheers!!🍻
Another good one, you two! Watched it twice - once solo, and once with Sunny. 😅 Appreciate you both! Keep 'em coming! Sending good PNW vibes. 🍻🙂
Thanks you two!! We always appreciate your support!
My dream is definitely for slow travel to really get to experience places. I travel often on my time off, which is definitely a fast version, and I am very happy and blessed to be able to do this. But, I would love to just settle into a place for a little while! I love these videos where you guys just talk through the pros, cons, budgets, etc.! Keep up the great content! Happy travels!! 😊 Cheers!
Yes, slow travel is a great way to go!! Settling in, and experiencing the area, culture, and people is the best part. We are so happy to hear you enjoy this style of video, we have many more planned for the coming months. Cheers 🍻
Hey guys, I'm a big fan from the UK. Your content is excellent and I'm hard to please 😊. I can't believe you haven't got a million subscribers. I'm going to share you too as many friends as I can. I hope other fans will too. You deserve it. Hoping I turn a corner someday and bump into you guys. All the best. You're living the dream. Steve 😊👍🏻
Thank you, Steve! We very much appreciate the support and would love to run into you one day!!
Cheers!!🍻
Excellent video!! We’ve listed our house and plan to be slow traveling SOON. 😃 I’m more of a minimalist like Carrie, but also an artist, so loving the texture of the walls and the decor. And gotta say naps and reading mindless mysteries are an important part of life. 😂 Looking forward to the budget info and seeing what you’re up to in glorious Italy!
Naps, are never overrated ☺! Best of luck with a fast sale of our house so you can start your slow traveling adventure sooner rather than later. Cheers 🍻
Those prices for those places were awesome. Not expensive at all for 27 days in Europe!
Agreed
As a solo traveler, I recently tried a slow travel trip but quickly realized I get bored with my own company so need to keep moving!
As a solo traveler I can see this being the case maybe much easier. Good to know. Cheers!!
My husband and I spent nearly the whole summer (46 days) in northern Italy, on average 4-5 nights per stay. We’d consider it on the faster side, but we wanted to scope out as much territory as possible in the time we had (and we had a car rental). It didn’t feel super fast, as our typical stay in the past has been 2-3 nights, but it was tiring. Not enough naps I think. We spent an average of $105 per night (mostly AirB&Bs), and really learned first hand a lot of the lessons you mentioned. We were scoping out places we may want to retire to in a few years. Great advice and as always, great video! I’d love to see a video about how you plan your itineraries-do you plan around seasons or cost of travel at the time? Do you carry clothes for all seasons (lug-sole snow boots?) or buy as needed? We’ve watched most of your videos and you’ve added Southeast Asia to our forecast, but we don’t recall seeing a real break down of your planning methods. Thanks!
The fact that we only have carry-on bags, we only have summer clothes with a sweatshirt and light jacket. We hope to get home in time for the cold weather where our winter clothes are stored away. We have had to buy jackets in the past but hoping that we don't have to do much of that. Eventually, we will be going to cooler climates so we will either need to check a bag or get creative on what we bring. Great idea on Itinerary planning. Wet will add that to our video list! Thank you so much!! ❤
Yes! I love your videos and would love to see how you plan your itineraries. I’d also love your tips on how you find budget accommodations, flights from the USA, and budget tips in general.
Loved this video, especially near the end, when you showed in the blue boxes who is suited for each style of travel. Very clear and helpful. When I took students to Europe, we did fast travel, but liked to stay at least 3 days in each city. But we did stay longer in big cities, like Paris and Munich. Thanks again, Elizabeth
Thank you so much, Elizabeth! We are happy to hear the info (and blue boxes) were helpful, we enjoy getting feedback ☺. Yes, those bigger cities need those longer stays, if you have the time, so much more to explore. Cheers!
Brian and Carrie, you both are and have been so inspirational as well as helpful! Your advice is always spot on. I hope one day we can meet you. That would be, as they say, best day ever! Thanks for all the time and effort you put in all your videos so people like us, have a easier path to follow. Sincerely, THANK YOU!
Thank you so much ❤️, we really appreciate hearing that. Definitely let us know if we are ever going to cross paths. Cheers 🍻
@@BrianandCarrie you bet! That would be SO exciting! 🤞
Great video, lots of good insights. I love that you keep it real & include the “unglamorous” details, like laundry costing $9.50.
Thank you for watching, Rebecca! ❤
Loved this video! I have basically experienced just about everything you discussed in this video, and I agree that fast travel can be really fun for short bursts, but slow travel is much better for ones overall mental and physical health. I absolutely love taking time to get to know a town or a city. It’s so fun to discover your favorite grocery store, pub, ice cream shop, bakery, coffee shop etc. Haha can you tell I love food? Also, I love discovering parks, trails, cute neighborhoods, live music, all the things that come with getting to know an area during an extended time period. And on days when you feel exhausted and worn down, you don’t feel guilty about not going anywhere, because you’ve got plenty of time to explore everything you want to experience.
We agree with your comment 100%, Debbie. We have said many times that we are so happy that we found this grocery store, pub, ice cream shop, etc... early on in our month-long stay. Places that we never would have found or had the time to enjoy if we were moving quickly. Thank you for watching and commenting!! ❤
A nice video. I am a retired dual citizen, American/ Italian. I admire what you do. I’ve only been traveling in Europe for the last 5 years. I live on passive income. Half of it is Social security. I’m fortunate. However, I have no pension. I also have no bills. I live comfortably for less than $1500 a month. I base myself in Sicily, and then just travel to another country for at least a month. I do this about 3 months a year. Then I explore Sicily, Italy……and just a lot of nothing, the rest of the year. Keep up the traveling. Life is good!
It sounds like a wonderful life you have! Thank you for the comments and for watching our channel! Safe travels and happy 2024!
Cheers!!🍻
Hey guys. More quality content. I relish the idea of slow travel. I had it when I had a long term (3 month) and work assignment in Germany but generally I have limited time and need to see many sites over a few days like Portugal in May. I look forward to retirement travel and being longer in places. I think you get more of the flavour and vibe of a place with a longer stay. Thus I want to return to Portugal. But a thorough review of the Pros and Cons. I remember your rainy videos which just couldn’t be avoided. You two have such positive attitude and energy between you. It is good to get the insight into how you interact on a daily basis. The hotel bathroom story was very funny snd relatable. Continued safe and happy travels.
Hi, Robert! We were just talking about Portugal yesterday. We loved our time there so much that we may return late next year and tour around more of the country. Thank you for all your support!! 😀
We're on our second month of slow travel.... Due to a family emergency right out the gate we had to return from the south Pacific. One month in Mexico now after over a month in Fiji. Love this video.... Been a while.... safe travels guys....Larry and Minnie....
Hey guys! Sorry to hear about the family emergencies. We will face that someday as well, hopefully not for a long while but the day will come. Thanks so much for the continued support, we really do appreciate it. Safe travels! ❤
I appreciate your talking about the dirty clothes going into the luggage! I don’t always have time or energy to RE-Tetris my bag, clean everything, etc. I feel better now! And thanks for mentioning the boredom after a month. Thank you!🙏🏼
Love that...re-tetris 😊. That's exactly what it is - everything has a place. It's a lot of work and cutting some corners for mental health is not a bad thing 😊. Cheers!!
Great video guys. It is not all fun and games and people need to know that. Our first year was 70 different beds in 52 weeks. It was rough. This year was 1 month in each place. Much more relaxing, sometimes a little boredom is a good thing
Oh my goodness...that is a lot of moving around 😬. I'd be in fetal position in a corner somewhere I fear. Yes, agreed, some boredom isn't a bad thing. Makes us more excited for the next location. Cheers 🍻
Hello! We are fellow Washingtonion's who have been following you for a few weeks. Great videos! Love all if your insights. We've been slow traveling for 3 and half years. On our way from Valencia soon to SE Asia for 4 months. Thanks for all of your videos. They've been very helpful. Enjoy Florence! Try to take a train to Tuscany or Umbria fir a couple of days. Easy and relaxing. Enjoy and thanks again. Lyle and Chris
Washingtonian here as well. Been living in Mexico for 5 years. Headed to SE Asia in October.
Hi Lyle and Chris! Thank you so much ♥ We did take a bus to Tuscany and it has to be one our my favorite day trips in Italy so far!! Safe travels and enjoy SE Asia, we sure did love our time there. Cheers 🍻
I'm late to view this one but wanted to chime in and say I love your content. I especially loved all your Romania videos. Wifey and I are headed back AGAIN (lol) in March for a month. Even though my wife is from Romania, we went back for the first time in 25 years last year. Your videos have been great in helping us plan what to do. I am looking forward to March and a slower pace of life for a while.
Thank you so much ❤️. We loved our time in Romania and can't wait to get back. Unfortunately, with so many places to still see, it's a ways off still. Thanks so much for watching 😊
Loved this video! We are a (mostly) retired couple who loves the "slow" travel style, but too often is doing "fast" travel to meet up with friends and family in various places. We just finished a 3-month trip in Europe which included 36 different accommodations (though the nights along the Tour de Mont Blanc necessitated 1 night stays). Really enjoyed the way you describe the pros and cons. We relate to not knowing which city we were in and running into walls in the middle of the night!
Oh my goodness, 36 in 3 months....I'd need months to recoop 😬. I'm always happy to hear others can relate to the fast travel issues like forgetting where I am and running into a wall in the middle of the night 😉. Thanks so much watching and continued safe travels.
When you started talking about Romania one year ago it hit me that I have been following you for an entire year.. so you definitely have a fan here😂..this video is so funny.. I almost spilled my coffee a few times.. not that your usual videos are boring but this kind of video brings out the comedian side in both of you.. I have visited Budapest, Vienna and Prague on day trips in mid August so I can definitely relate to you when you mentioned it.. besides where to store the luggage before check-in, no laundry done after running around at 35-40 degrees (Celsius), no food available in the fridge at 10 pm because you have to leave the hotel next day, pack and unpack quickly etc, we also had 2 kids so a bit more stress that we obviously don’t see in the pictures 2 years later.. love you guys so keep doing what you do at the pace you feel and afford 😊🤗
Thank you so much for sticking with us!! ❤ Moving forward, we will be doing more of this style of video along with our usual destination videos, which we are still trying to improve on. 🙂 We couldn't imagine traveling with 2 kids!! Kids are great, but travel is so much more enjoyable without them!! 😃 Thank you again for watching our channel and supporting us! ❤
Yes! Great video. This is the real travel life experience. I like to know the pros and cons. Slow travel is what I would like but my job makes me a fast traveler. Then I feel like I need a vacation for my vacation.
Have fun in Italy!
Thank you so much! Yes, we all to well remember the feeling of needing a vacation from your vacation. We do feel incredibly lucky every day to be able to live the life we are now and to have the ability to make the decision of slow travel if we want. Cheers!!
Very insightful as usual. I did not know that you had no base back in the US to relax at, so you guys really are full-time travellers. If you can crack the code, what an amazing lifestyle to live, and this year alone has been epic for you guys :)
Yes, we do agree that we are finding the perfect balance. And with that what a wonderful life we are living for sure. Cheers!!
This was appreciated. We did an 11-day “tour“ through Germany, Austria and Switzerland. At the end, we were exhausted an, gotta say, didn’t necessarily enjoy it. We did see a lot, but it is at a price. 11 days, 7 hotels, hated living out of the suitcase. The last day, the 2 of us were able to walk around Munich and get out of the tourist areas - that was the best day!
Still a year+ on going full time travel. Thank you for the insights.
It was at a price for us as well. Physically, mentally and financially! Our cost breakdown video on four weeks through central Europe will be out on Saturday. Thank you for watching!
Cheers!🍻
We love your videos every Saturday is a highlight we look forward too. We are slow travelers we will spend usually 2 week in a place. This winter we will do the Azores ,Madeira and Tenerife before heading to the Malaga area for a month and finally to Portugal for 2 months or longer if necessary to wait out our Canadian winters. Enjoy the journey.
Sounds like such an amazing trip! We love Portugal and still have the Algarve #1 on our list of places to stay for 3 to 6 months someday. Safe travels! ❤
I really enjoyed this video. We have been pretty much slow traveling for 3 months now. Even though we had an itinerary in place before we left, to carry us through January 2024, we’ve made several adjustments already. We planned to stay in each location for a month but during August, some things just didn’t work out for various reasons. We ended up moving 3 times in that one month. It was difficult to pack and unpack that many times in a month but we did enjoy getting to see a couple of places that weren’t planned for.
We definitely prefer slow travel for the same reasons y’all do, plus one additional reason for us. We love seeing the sights, but one of our main goals in traveling the world, is to figure out where we want to retire. When we stay for a month it gives us a better idea of what we could expect living in that area. We also enjoy having down days occasionally. We just had one today so I could work on our newest video. Having down days make it feel like you’re living, rather than just vacationing or sightseeing.
I look forward to all of your videos! I agree with all your points on this one. 😉. Safe travels.
We started this channel with the idea of looking for a place to retire. Now that we have been traveling for 2 years, we are now looking for a place to stop and relax for 3-6 months at a time. The days off are very important! We took two weeks off from filming anything recently. It is nice to take a vacation sometimes!! 😀
Slow travel 100%!! Only a few more years and we'll be living our dream too and meeting up with you guys! And remember, ya'all know we have a spare bedroom and bath for ya anytime you need it when you're back home! Love and miss you!
Yes, can't wait till you guys can meet us on the road!! Br back home in a few short months....miss you 😘❤️😘
Really helpful and fun video (as always)! Great to see the slow vs. fast thoughts and can definitely relate to so many of the pros and cons as we just returned from a four-month retirement kick off "medium speed" trip. If you're ever struggling to find an idea for video content while slow traveling, maybe a cooking healthy in an Airbnb? Given the variation in kitchens, cooking equipment/utensils available it can be tricky.
That's a great idea, Carisa! People have asked us to do a "day in the life" type video but we think it would be boring. 😆 But, if we could add something like what you suggest it could work. Thank you!! ❤
My wife and I are definitely slow travelers by preference. It doesn't always work out, but when we can get a longer stay in one place, we definitely enjoy it more.
We have certainly found the same thing! Safe travels - Cheers 🍻
We would literally make this exact video with our thoughts and preferences on travel styles! We realize that intermixing fast travel is nice but only in small doses! Thanks for the video can't wait to see your Italy videos! My (Jenn's) fave country!
Thanks, Jenn! Moving forward we will be doing month-long stays with maybe a week in between. We are done with weeks of fast travel!! Never again! 😆
Really interesting vlog. Thanks
Thank you for always supporting us!! ❤
Heading to Europe for October. Flying into Amsterdam and flying out of Paris. 9 stops total. Germany, Poland hungrary, Austria, Italy, Switzerland and France. Paid $600 for 3 nights hotel in Paris is a budget breaker especially when I have an Airbnb booked in Vietnam for a month for $600.
Oh goodness, how we can relate!! Our place in DaNang Vietnam was under $500 for a month and we were spending that for two nights in Munich 🤨. But, at the same time, these are areas we wanted to see, so we have no regrets. Have a safe and wonderful trip! Cheers 🍻
Sitting in Stockholm Sweden watching your video and drinking wine. We’re retired and have no time constraints. We’re here for a week but wish it was a month. Slow travel!
Slow travel for the win!! That sounds absolutely amazing - safe continued travels to you both. Cheers 🍷
Hey you two! Great video on the pros and cons of different styles of travel. There are other RUclipsrs who slow and or fast travel that I watch and only one makes good sense to me, and that is slow travel. I can understand how in some circumstances trying to see as much as possible in a shorter time frame makes sense, but to me that would feel like a vacation. Where slow travel would feel like a life well spent living. Besides, I hate being rushed or feeling like I'm under the gun. Taking the time to stop and smell the roses is much more my lifestyle. Now there are days where I just want to go, go, go, but that probably depends on how much caffeine I've had.
Taking day trips or spending a night elsewhere makes sense while slow traveling. You always have a home base to return to, so you can essentially kill two birds with one stone. If the opportunity of experiencing a much desired location or area presents itself, then go for it. I think it will be enjoyed even more knowing you don't have to make plans to be somewhere else after the fact, knowing you are already settled somewhere else and can comfortably return to that.
Your video made me think of a dog lying on it's back with it's stomach very much exposed. Thank you for being vulnerable as you shared certain things that took place as you fast traveled. That's life and I'm sure many have done the same and can relate. What am I talking about? Specifically, wearing clothing multiple times before washing them. It happens, even when you're not traveling! Thank you for sharing!
Hi, Paul. Going on day trips is something that we have done more of since we started our travels just two years ago, and we plan on doing more moving forward. Like you said, best of both worlds. We will look for places that we can enjoy for month-long stays but also have options of getting out of town for a long weekend if we choose to do so. Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment! Safe travels!
Cheers!!🍻
Another great vlog. You are in my favorite cities ❤ little jealous. We are definitely slow travel. Used to be cram as much in as possible but not anymore. We will be starting full-time later next year. Looking forward to your Italy vlog and the fast travel budget 😬 Adiós desde San Miguel de Allende México 🇲🇽
Thank you so much!! Fast travel is not for everyone (including us) that is for sure. We look forward to making it to Mexico soon. Cheers!!
Hey, happy Fall, y’all! Greetings from the City of Subdued Excitement.
The leaves are changing here in the ‘Ham and the ☔️ tap is about to open.
Can’t believe it’s been 2 years for you. Cheers and thank you for the sharing your journey…and for the retirement inspo! 🍻🏔️😃
We've been hearing from home that the weather is starting to change. Not going to lie, Fall is my favorite season and the crisp morning mixed with the changing leaves will be missed this year. This month marks our 2 year anniversary! We were just talking about how in one way the time has passed so fast and in the other it seems WAY longer than that considering how much we've been able to see and do in that time. Thanks so much for following along and your support ♥
Great video, thanks for sharing! Dan & Marj, Calgary AB.
Thanks, you two for watching!!
Thanks for spelling out the candid truths. Slower travel sounds like really being in present time, getting to know the locals and bistros, cafes, grocery stores, coffee all mornin in your Airbnb…and way more affordable. Up my alley as I just retired. I am contemplating how I will feel giving up my apt and car in CA and stuff before long term travel. For sure, the states is too expensive to retire. This video is great to know the reality and when you give up your home in the states, it does sound nice to have a frig, and snacks, Brian, plus laundry washer, Carrie, at least for a little while to call home. A little routine, Nappin and reading a book is a big relaxing thing to do for me instead of having all that stress in planning a trip every 2 days. Carrie, wakin up to go to the bathroom in a new place in the middle of the night in a dark room and trippin has happened to me thus I always have my arms extended since then in the dark… kinda funny. I used to wash my underwear the night before and dry them over the shower curtain and using the blow dryer too Ugh!….when I travelled fast decades ago….lol.
Q’s: Do you think you will keep traveling for another year? Are you missing not having a real place to call home? Are you contemplating making a decision in dropping your anchor, say in Portugal and live for a long time and applying for a long term visa? How would you apply for a long term visa after you complete a year or 2 traveling after you give up your home in the states. I read in the San Francisco Spanish and Portugal Consulate webpage you have to apply in your home country for a long term visa and have a place leased when submitting your application. But how can you do that if you are traveling like you on the road if you decide to live in say, Spain or Portugal. I read that before you do the long term visa you have to apply at your local consulate; in my case it would be San Francisco, but I wonder how would I do that if I wanna follow in your footsteps and live out of my luggage and do slow traveling in Europe?Would you use then your address with your family because you give up your address or your home in the states, do you then have to return to the US in order to apply for a long-term visa in the country of choice that you plan on living full time. ….because I thought you can’t do it from Europe, you have to apply to a consulate to get your long-term visa whether it’s a non-lucrative visa or a working visa like that you have an opportunity if you settle in one country to become a resident and have dual citizenship, and eventually have their healthcare. I welcome your thoughts. Thank you!
Yes, slow travel for the win for SO many reasons 😁. We don't have a end date in sight for ending travel or settling down. We do love Portugal and can see staying there extended periods and extending our visa if we need to for that country. As for applying for permanent residency, this is something we had just began the process of prior to deciding to travel full time. You do need to apply at your local consulate, which was San Francisco for us as well. You would use whatever your mailing address is in the states after you begin travel. As far as the ins and outs of the entire process I unfortunately don't know as we have walked through it yet. Best of luck in your planning process. It's a lot to think through and prepare for. Getting rid of personal possessions including cars and apartments was something we never regretted. It's very freeing to not have anything holdings you down and knowing possessions can always be replaced. Cheers 🍻
@@BrianandCarrie Thank you SO much for all your feedback and for your continued efforts in producing wonderful content and videos. This helps me a lot. You both are great! Enjoy every minute. Cheers!🥂
Thank you, Anna! ❤
Glad I found your channel. We travel a lot but 2 week trips. I’d love to slow travel
Thank you so much for watching 😊😌
The longer that I travel the slower I go and the less I plan before departure. I resumed travelling in 2016 snd raced through places with the mindset that I would return post retirement. Not retired yet but have slowed the pace. I decided that a travel day is just for travel, no pressure to sightsee, just enjoy the journey.
That is so true...we know in our younger years we could have done the faster travel much easier. And we agree - our travel days, even if short, we get settled in and find our nearest grocery store. Cheers 🍻
Hello Carrie & Brian, I hope you still remember me, it's the Californian from Lagos! ;-) Since you've asked for feedback; I have Zero regards for Fast travel, because by its very essence, it's an Empty Shell and that even reflects in all fast travel videos out there on this medium or elsewhere. I see Fast Travel purely as a phenomenon created by American culture, perhaps, for bragging rights, otherwise, a waste of time and money! What fills that Empty Shell are the local cultures, language, and the people that make a place, The Place! Clearly, this will be a miss under Fast Travel. As few others noted in comment section here, through your content many of us are trying to decipher what it will be like to live in these places on a daily basis, which clearly is a missing component of your Fast travel videos. We have been following you two for the past 18+ months and there's clearly a content richness difference between the two approaches. As much as we adore your simplicity and raw humor, my wife and I pretty much stopped following your videos after Romania, because when it comes to fast travel, most of the high level information can be obtained through an online research. All I can say is that I am very happy to hear that you two have decided to switch back to Slow Travel. 🙂
We do remember and it is very nice to hear from you! Lagos and the Algarve are still at the top of our list of places to stay for extended periods of time. We agree with what have to say, and we are looking forward to getting back on track, not only with the channel, but how we want to live this lifestyle. Our "destination" videos will change to include more of what you may expect if you were to live in the area, transportation, grocery store, cost, etc...but also information on things to do and see. Moving forward we plan to do more of the conversation style videos as well. We very much appreciate the feedback and the support. 😀
@@BrianandCarrie Hi Guys, my apologies, as I just saw your reply! That tells you how often I hang around social media! 😆 Well, I appreciate the reply and I will look forward to see more of you two on the Slow pace of things. BTW, if you ever decide to pass through Lagos again, you'll have a villa to stay at, as my guest. The only thing I can't guarantee is meeting Brain's sophisticated beer palate! 🍻🤗
Starting in a week with my slow travel journey first stop Thailand (3 months) than Bali (6 months) and then Europa..
thanks for all your tips.
That sounds amazing, Anna! Thank you for watching and safe travels! ❤
@@BrianandCarrie thank you Brian and Carrie. Wishing you safe travel as well.
Great video. I love that you point out 'obvious' things that actually a lot of people don't even think about.
We left the states in August 2021 and slow traveled for the first year. So now I guess we would be called 'very slow travelers' 😅. We do travel with my 86 year old father in law, so slowing down has been beneficial for all of us. We can definitely associate with forgetting where you are sometimes. But we love this nomadic lifestyle 😊.
So cool that your 86-year-old father-in-law is traveling this way!! Very inspiring. Thank you for watching and commenting. We will check out your channel!
Cheers!!🍻
@@BrianandCarrie Thank you. We actually have mutual friends: Hannah and Trey (Probably Lost)
We met them in Koh Samui and they told us about you. Hopefully someday all the stars will align and we can all share stories and adventures.
Those two are amazing!!! It would be so fun to all be in the same place someday!
Great video! Hubby and I have always fast travelled due to limited time off work, so therefore we would try and pack in as much as we could to get the most out of our trip. But after following you guys for a while now, I really like the idea of slow travel. Fortunately we are now able to do this with our work structure. So can't wait, we are heading to Chiang Mai for a month next year, I know I will love it, but it will be interesting to see how hubby goes, as he is always on the move (ants in his pants) !!😅
Oh wow, I hope you love Chiang Mai. Neither one of us can put a finger on exactly why, but it's the one place in Thailand we would love to go back and stay another month. Great food, really fun night markets, good grocery stores, great medical, and massages ❤️. So much to love!!
I’m in Romania now, Constanta to be exact, and have been traveling for 3 years now. Retired at 45 and solo traveling, but I still get bored with being away for too long in diff hotels and short-term accommodations. I still maintain my home in the U.S. and the more travel I do, the more I find it necessary to not completely sell everything and become Airbnb-dependent. I love having a home to come back to relax and recharge before getting on the road again. Maybe one day I’ll sell everything and do what you guys are doing, but I’m not ready to take that leap yet! Full time travel is exhausting.
Full-time travel can be exhausting for sure, but we wouldn't have it any other way. Selling everything and being completely debt-free without the responsibility of owning a home is part of what makes us feel the freedom that we now enjoy. With that being said when we do go home to visit friends and family, not having our own place can be a bit inconvenient. We do have two house sits when we return for the holidays this year so that will help. Thank you for taking the time to comment!
Cheers!!🍻
This is a great video! I'm a few years from retirement and want to travel more. I've traveled a lot, but mostly moderate travel (One or two locations in 2 weeks). I feel slow travel sounds like fun, and definitely cheaper but like you said you may have too much downtime (but less frantic). But fast travel would be more expensive and hectic which is not exactly what I'm looking for. So after watching this video I think I will start with something halfway between but with unlimited time I can do maybe 2 weeks per location and string a bunch end to end. Thanks for the amazing content!
That sounds like a great plan! We had to find a balance that works for us. We think that we have it figured out but things can always change and adjustments made. Thank you for watching and commenting!
Cheers!
Great to hear your thoughts on this. I would love to hear your story how you got into travel. The both of you look way to young for retirement. What were you doing before travel started? Did you own a house then sold It? Love to hear the story. Brian I love your sense of humour.
Thanks so much for watching! We plan to do another Q&A video in the next few months, as it's been a while and we have quite a few new viewers. But, until then, here is our last Q&A that may answer some of your questions. ruclips.net/video/Cig7kaN386Y/видео.html Cheers!!
Great video!! We travel full time with our kids and fast travel is exhausting!! We all much prefer slower a month in eacg place at least, but once in a while we mix in faster travel in more expensive destinations.
We can't imagine doing it with young kids!! We will mix in fast travel once a year but stay longer in each spot. The 2 to 3 days in each place won't work for us moving forward. Thank you for your continued support and safe travels!! 😀
@BrianandCarrie the kids I think handle it better than us adults 😂 we are doing a fast pace stretch right now through Greece, but looking forward to slowing down in Egypt next month.
I also get bored at week 3. We try to hold our day trips to week 3 since it gives us something to look forward too. Happy travels.
That's a great tip! We did that a bit during our time in Italy and it sure did seem to help. Cheers 🍻
Hi guys - great video. Definitely slow travelers with side trips. Currently in Bangkok on Multi Entry visa. We have to leave the country twice !!!! What a hardship. With a few extra trips in Thailand it’s working out as one trip a month. A lifestyle that suits us
Slow travel is the only way for us moving forward! Thank s for watching.
Cheers!!
Great video thank you. My partner and I (Australians) will be travelling full time predominantly throughout SE Asia and will be staying one to 2 weeks at each location. We will be travelling to countries and staying for as long as the tourist Visas are for, eg, Vietnam (90 days), Malaysia (90days), Thailand, Laos Cambodia and Indonesia (all 30 days) and re-visit places as we go. Given the close proximity that all these countries are in we can bounce back in to the countries with the short visa stays as we see fit. After about 12 months or so we will probably have found our preferred location where we may settle down longer term. Thank you for all your tips, we are definitely slow travellers, cheers.
Sounds like a perfect plan!! Using up your visa time then taking a quick hopper flight is a great way to do it. Really keeps those travel costs down as well. Happy and safe travels to you both.
We like slow travel even though we get bored at times. We like that with slow travel we don't feel like tourists but like travelers, which is a big difference.
We 100% agree!!! We'd much rather hit that bored point (which is normal in everyday life anyway) than feel like we've missed something. Thanks so much for watching and safe travels wherever your travels take you. Cheers!!
Loved this video! Rather than the videos that show an area, with not so much talking, I prefer the videos in which you guys are talking about everything, major and minor, related to the area, be it voice-overs or talking heads. I think you excel at that. You mentioned about slow travel the pro of getting to know the locals. An idea: add a segment to your videos in which you interact with a local. Maybe have a standard question like What do tourists always miss when they visit?, What do you hope would be a tourist's lasting impression of your city and its people?, If a foreigner could try only one food here what should it be?. It may be a little out of your comfort zone but I think it would be popular.
That's not a bad idea, George. We would feel comfortable doing that if we became friends with a local naturally rather than just walking up to someone on the street. However, if the opportunity presents itself, it is something that we believe would be interesting. We are always looking for new ideas and ways to improve so thank you for the idea!!
Cheers!!🍻
Hi, I've wanted to mention this many times too. I think it would add a lot to your channel, after all, it's the locals that add to your experience of a place. Having a little chat with a store owner or someone selling their art on the streets helps create the vibe of the place, and I'm sure they would see it as free advertising too. Great channel and I loved this weeks video. Brian, I loved your re wearing dirty clothes😂
Safe and happy travels
❤Zeljka @@BrianandCarrie
Thanks again for the support!! Stay tuned for local interaction!!
We really enjoyed your video today, and we totally agree with you guys, specially when you talked about eating healthy 🤦🏻♀️
Thanks! The eating healthy thing is such a tough one. We've just learned we just appreciate eating in so much more. Hope you're both doing well. Cheers 🍻
I completely agree. I much prefer slow travel. When I think of the times that I've done fast travel, it's been because of a time constraint. However, to me, one of the more esoteric benefits of fast(er) travel is that the faster I travel the slower time moves. When I slow-travel, I tend to get into a routine, which means that time seems to speed up and suddenly several days have gone by.
This can be true for sure. I find that our time of slow travel moves faster in areas we are really loving. Areas we aren't that crazy about sure can drag though. Thanks for watching!! Cheers 🍻
"You don't know where your next meal is coming from". 😊
You might want to rephrase that, Brian, when you have enough money to stop at ANY restaurant you like in extremis.
Yeh. I'm woke 😂🎉.
Liked and subscribed - useful information 👍.
HA!! Not any restaurant but understand your point. 😀 Thank you for subscribing!!
Cheers!!🍻
After 3 years, we are settling into our groove. As a rule we are slow travellers, with some lightning rounds to be the exceptions to prove the rule. In 3 years of full-time travel we have stayed in 2 places for 3 months, 2 places for 2 months and 12 places for 3-6 weeks each. We also spend 50-60 days a year on cruises as it is our preferred way to cross oceans. Lightning rounds have been up and down the East Coast to see all those family and friends we hadn’t seen since COVID. 17 beds over 30 days to visit 29 people-whew!
Our plan for next year (Australia and New Zealand and a world cruise) is back to slower travel including 206 days on cruises.
Wow! That's a lot of cruising!! We are actually taking a transatlantic cruise back to the US from Rome this December. It will be our first of its kind and we are looking forward to the sixteen days without having to find our next meal!! Thank you for watching and safe travels! 😃
Cheers!!🍻
Slowwwww travel is the key!
Do you sometimes find yourself just going out on the town because your thinking about doing the next video, that you end up missing the sites and people? As you know we love watching you guys and we are doing both the slow and fast travel and everything that you said is spot on. Thanks for all the info you provide.
There are times, mainly when we are moving quicker - that the focus can be a bit more on fitting everything in and filming. This would be one of the reasons we don't care for it as much. We recently took a week of traveling off from filming, simply to fully enjoy the areas we were seeing and not have a camera in hand. Thanks so much for watching and following along ♥
@@BrianandCarrie thanks. We will be in La Spezia, Liguria Italy in 16 days.
This is a great topic. My husband and I are like you, we got rid of everything and are now traveling and started a channel on you tube. We are in Bulgaria. Beer tips, Turkish sofra in sofia we got 500ml good local beer for 1.45 american! Glad to hear you will go to sicily. Hope you will be able to shop a ballaro market in palermo.
Thank you so much for watching!! We have yet to explore Bulgaria but what better reason to do so with $1.45 beers!! Good luck with your channel and safe travels!
Cheers!!🍻
I would be really interested to see an updated ranking video! Pretty please :)
We will put that on the list! Thank you for suggesting, we should have it out by the end of the year!
Cheers!!🍻
I love the insight in this video. My plan is to slow travel in Europe for 1-3 years when I retire (in a little over 4 years). I am trying to decide if getting a long-stay visa for a year in France or Italy would be better or if doing the Schengen shuffle would be a better option. What did the two of you do? Thanks!
We do the shuffle.. It allows us to see new areas we may not have gone to otherwise. Later, when we have less areas to see, this may be a better option for us. Cheers 🍻
Great down-to-earth and realistic discussion!
Fast travel and slow travel both have their advantages and disadvantages. In my overseas situations since the 70s, what I did, as far as while in Europe, was to settle into my regular overseas city for 10-11 weeks and then would take little trips around Europe from there using my train pass. I'd pay my low rent for the entire 10-11 weeks and then if I wanted to take off, I'd go somewhere else in Europe for a while and then go back to my main city and get back into regular overseas life.
For the first decade of 10-11- week travel, I rented a place in the same co-op style building annually and made friends with folks in the building. It was like going to a second home each year. I would even leave my bicycle in the same city either at my building or with friends that I had made who lived somewhere else in the same city. I still have a lot of those friends from back in the 70s (and their kids and grandkids) as we e-mail each other, some almost daily, and we still visited each other up until the pandemic started. I was last in Europe in summer 2019 and in Asia from part of 2019 up to and into Feb 2020.
By staying in one place for so long, it was a way to create an overseas community. Plus, the overseas friends had friends in other places in Europe and would provide for me to meet up with their friends and our community continued to grow. Other friends of mine from here in the U.S. were traveling the same way and we'd also meet up in different places throughout Europe and they'd introduce me to the friends that they had made and vice versa.
When I decided to no longer spend 10-11 weeks straight at a time in Europe, I would still make my base in the same city, but for 2-3 weeks and then take it from there. And when I stopped staying in the same building, I had made such a strong community of friends in that same city, until there were friends inviting me to stay with them. Also during my last 2 years of 2-3 week visits of being in the same city, before the pandemic, I got an Airbnb apartment in the neighborhood of my closest friends.
I travel differently depending on where I'm going in the world and what continent I'm on. When in Asia and Europe, I tend to stay longer and when in North Africa, West Africa, South America, Australia, New Zealand, etc, I tend to stay for shorter periods although with friends in New Zealand and Australia and whom I met while in Europe on trains on my quick-travel schedule away from my main European city. I met both my Kiwi and Australian friends, in different years, but at the end of one of my quick-travel trips, but when I was headed back up to my regular European city, Copenhagen, where I've been since a teen in the early/mid 1970s.
One way to make community ties if one is doing long term stays in one place is to enroll in a local language school and go to class daily. I never got bored on long stays as I tied in and did things within the community and met a lot fo people who were living in my overseas city as permanent residents.
For the first decade, I got up every morning and biked across town to my language school and became friends with the foreigners in my classes. Then, after class, I'd go around the city and practice my language skills and made friends with more people. Or the foreign students and I would hang out. When I got back to where I was living, which was like a co-op, I could continue to practice my language skills with native speakers and also get help with my homework. It just takes some creativity, planning, and patience to figure a way to go from an annual tourist status to sort of a regular part-time resident status, but while still on a 90-day tourist allowance in certain countries or regions.
I think that after you two figure out what places you like the best, while doing fast travel, then it's time to pick maybe two or three places to possibly settle down in and rotate for a longer period of time than usual and then start connecting with the communities in those places and making friends as just traveling without real connections gets really tiring at some point.
Years before the pandemic struck, I was figuring out a way to stay in Southeast Asia for longer. I started my research back in 2014/2015. I've been going to the region regularly since the late 1990s. I had thought of the Malaysia My Second Home visa and did the research. It would have given me 10 years to come and go as I pleased and then I could come home and continue to work part-time in my profession and check up on and visit family and friends here, until deciding not to work anymore although I officially retired at 56.
One of my best male friends did the same, but back and forth from the U.S. and Italy. He retired at a young age and left the U.S. and moved to his paid-for condo in Italy which he had bought around 20 years before retiring at age 55. But, like he did, I would have always kept a residence here. He kept his condo in the U.S., also paid for, but leased it out. And when it wasn't leased out, he'd stay in it for when he came back to visit family and friends across the U.S. He lived on the East Coast.
My plan was to possibly get the Malaysian visa, as I qualified for it, and then spend time in Thailand, where my heart is, but one only gets 30 days there unless one can get an extended time on one's visa and I didn't want a retirement visa there. Too many hoops to jump through. Thailand makes things complicated. And then I could also have done Singapore where one automatically gets up to 90 days, I think it is and Malaysia is 90 days, but that wouldn't have mattered as I would have already had a 10-year visa to come and go. And then at some point, maybe stay for months in Malaysia as I have close Malaysian friends, my former Airbnb hosts. We're like family and they call and e-mail me often and we would also meet up in Malaysia after my weeks in Thailand and before me moving on to Singapore and then also either sometimes to quick travel to Indonesia and once all the way to to Hong Kong from Singapore and then back to Singapore before flying home to L.A.
Greetings from Los Angeles
I think that the language class daily is an excellent idea. You meet new people with the same challenges plus learn a valuable skill where you are. As a mostly monolingual Canadian I would welcome improved linguistic skills that aren’t just Google Translate. Thanks for sharing your detailed backstory.
You're welcome. Taking language classes is great. Over all of my years of schooling from middle school through university, I studied, on different levels, nine languages throughout different points of my schooling. One meets a lot of interesting people in language classes.
Greetings from Los Angeles@@robertmcfarlane4151
Thank you for all the wonderful info. We do love the idea of staying in one place longer and traveling from there, all while keeping a "home base". This is so much more affordable in Europe and SE Asia where you can get around by train and air at such an affordable price. Not packing your belongings all the time, but just a quick few-day bag is so much nicer as well. As always, thanks so much for watching! Cheers!!
Yeah, finding an overseas home base and becoming part of a community in some way, transforms one from a tourist into a semi resident. Oh, and if you're looking for places to stay, check out the equivalent of university dorms/co-ops as that's where I stayed for the first decade of summer trips although I don't know if that system is still in place for summer rentals.
Many students would leave and either go back to their parents' houses located around the country or travel around Europe and North Africa on Inter-Rail during the summer as I think Morocco was added to the Inter-Rail pass, But, they still needed to pay their rent for two summer months. And although I was a full-time university student here at home, it had nothing to do with needing to be one there during the summer. Plus, at some point, I had finished both undergrad and grad school here, but was still living in a dorm/co-op there.
The dorms/co-ops were not connected to any one university. It was general student housing for full-time university/college/ tech school, etc students during the regular school year. I ended up renting a room each summer and paying the student's rent. I stayed on two different floors in a 10-story building.
On my first day on my floor in the building, looking like a lost sheep, the guys on my floor saw me sitting alone in the communal kitchen and asked if I wanted to come to the park and play soccer with them. So, I tagged along and we had a great time. They became some of my best friends for decades. Everyone was really nice.
As for the building, each floor had two wings of 16 rooms each and a communal kitchen on each wing. We either planned our meals together during the regular week or cooked and ate separately on the weekends. There was also a free laundry room in the building (3 big washers/1 big dryer). My rent back then was $122. a month and during the 10th summer, still less then $200 month even with rent increases.1975-1985 as before then, I lived with a family for the first two summers. Plus, while at the building in the summer, I noticed some people staying there who were around my parents' age back then. There were a lot of such buildings around the city.
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Thx again for an excellent video! I think your definition of slow travel is one month at a time, fast travel is maybe less than a week in one city. I think there can be something in the middle which l called it “mellow” travel. It is to stay at one place 10- 14 days. That way you won’t get bored and still feel like home with the groceries and things. This would be enough time to explore the surrounding regions and take some day trips. Of course this would cost more than the slow travel. Like you said it’s all depending on your personal tastes and style. I hope someday you can do a “mellow trip” for 2- 3 months and tell us your thoughts. Thx !
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Carrie: we are old! 😂 That is funny and a reminder that being in the 50s, is not the same as being 35. I have been unemployed for some months and deciding if I should take the rest of the year to travel and resume the job search in January. Anyways I have not been hired despite the efforts, so who cares! Emergency fund allows that and once I start the new job, I will have to way months and months before 2 weeks vacation 😢 Great job guys! 🍻
Exactly...50 sure don't feel like 35, at least our bodies and minds keep reminding us if that 😂.
Sounds like a great plan...happy and safe travels, wherever they take you. Cheers!!
Great video! We fast travel because we still have J.O.B.S 😢. However I do find it exhausting mentally….you’ve constantly got to make decisions…even thinkin about what to eat becomes a chore….who would have thought that!😂.
The first thing we did when we arrived in Florence for a month was fill the refrigerator!! The second thing was to start editing all the videos that we had shot!!! Fast travel is not conducive to what we are trying to do with this channel. 🙂 Thank you for watching and commenting!!
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Hi guys thanks again for a very informative video. Just a quick question on the gear you use. How hard was it to learn to use a GoPro , do you need the GoPro subscription and what video editing software do you use. We are thinking about buying a GoPro for our travels but not sure if an iPhone would be easier - I just worry the iPhone is not robust enough and I might damage it.
The GoPro is easy to use, and you do not need a subscription. We use Premier Pro to edit, but you can use any other options out there. Some may even be easier. We started with Premier so sticking with it. Thank you for watching!!
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Terrific points about slow travel. Totally agree! Are you at all concerned with the new trend by some governments to clamp down in Airbnb and other short term rental offerings? Portugal has recently hinted at this. We like to stay in apartments as well, but find this could be a possible concern in the future. Happy Travels! You're going to love Sicily!
We have read a few articles about it, and we are a bit concerned. From what we understand most of the regulations are for new accommodations. The problem we see is the pricing getting out of control. Seems like rentals have gone up in price recently.
I've read a few times that Lecce is a wonderful place, if you're in the area.
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I really appreciate all of your videos,
super informative. I'm wondering if you can weigh in on money exchange in Vietnam, safety, leaving it in your room safe, AtMs, gold exchange, apps used, that type of thing.
Thanks again, love watching you guys 😊
Hi! We did a video that may answer some of your questions on Vietnam. We loved our time there, felt completely safe and look forward to returning. ruclips.net/video/29-w_C_sZ9Q/видео.html
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