Week 10. The end of my wonderful adventure to Australia and New Zealand. I left Kentucky naïve and inexperienced, having never traveled outside of the US. I returned with more great memories than I can even recall, a bunch of new friends from all over the globe, and an underlying confidence that everything is possible.
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Category Archives: Budgeting
Week 9 Costs
Week 9 started with a HelpX stay in Queenstown and ended with a few days in a hostel in the city. I want to reiterate that these breakdowns are my best guesses. Everything charged to my credit card is accurately represented but I’m not anal enough to track cash down to the dollar so Dining and Groceries have some fudging going on (and chocolate, because I’m kind of in love with chocolate).
Week 8 Costs
Week 8 started in Wellington and continued with me heading down the west coast of the south island.
Week 7 Costs
Week 7 encompassed my trip around New Zealand’s north island on the Stray bus.
Week 6 Costs
I’ve decided that these cost breakdown posts are a pain in the butt, as you can tell by how far behind I am. I think people find them useful though so I’ll try to keep it going.
Week 6 encompassed my last day in Melbourne and my first week in New Zealand and I knew it would be expensive since as it included an international flight and the Stray trip.
Week 5 Costs
This’ll be an easy one. So easy, in fact, that I’m posting over free WiFi outside a Hungry Jack’s (Burger King).
Week 4 Costs
Week 4 comin’ atcha! A few days in Melbourne with a host found on Airbnb followed by a short HelpX stay.
Week 3 Costs
I’ve gotten a bit behind on these weekly cost breakdowns. I gotta step up my game.
Week 3 will be a bit different than the previous weeks because I spent half of it with a HelpX host and the other half being a tourist. I also threw in an ER visit just for fun.
Week 2 Costs
| Week 2, 2/4 – 2/10 | Work exchange in Bellingen | |
| Transportation | $70 | Train from Sydney to Urunga, about 315 miles (www.countrylink.info) |
| Dining | $0 | |
| Groceries | $20 | Mostly chocolate |
| Entertainment | $0 | |
| Lodging | $0 | |
| Shopping | $0 | |
| Week 1 Total | $671 | |
| Week 2 Total | $90 | |
| Airfare | $1943 | SLC -> LAX -> SYD |
| Trip Total | $2704 |
Quite a bit different from week 1, huh? It’s almost enough to make a person consider traveling around the world for a year meeting all kinds of interesting people and doing all kinds of interesting things…
Week 1 Costs
People get funny when talking about money. Whether it’s your salary, 401k value, new car price, or how much a trip costs, no one wants to come across as a pretentious braggart. Well, stuff costs money, and people spend their money in different ways. With that in mind I’m going to borrow an idea from my friends over at OneSixtyK and provide a weekly breakdown of what it’s costing me to hang out over here in Australia. My hope is that it helps someone plan for his or her own trip.
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