2026 - mapping a year of travel

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t get how someone goes from barely being able to afford travel to spending $25K-$30K(!) on it in one year. That far exceeds what most people can/do spend.

Our yearly travel is usually something like:

Jan and/or Feb— use a holiday weekend to visit someplace like NYC, Williamsburg, Philly, or Norfolk.

Spring break— road trip, either to visit relatives or do something else (eg, Niagara Falls).

Memorial Day weekend— camping trip

Summer— drive to stay with family for a week.
Sometimes, also a week at the beach (driving) or a bigger trip, like national parks out west or Europe.

Labor Day weekend— camping trip.

Fall— sometimes a holiday weekend road trip.

Christmas time— drive to visit family for the holidays.

You make partner or Director.

You complete residency and enter a lucrative practice in dermatology or interventional radiology or procedural gastroenterology.

The latter can quintuple your HHI overnight

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP. Or for Scotland fly into London. The train ride from London to/from Edinburgh is lovely. (Or make one leg London + train and the other direct to/from Edinburgh, however it works out cheaper.)

They only have a week - that is too much extra time.