There are any number of reasons that you might want to track your own expenses on your travels: for tax purposes, budgeting, or just for the heck of it. Whatever they are, you are welcome to use the one that I developed for my own travels.

I posted my complete budget for my year around the world along with a spreadsheet with my own trip figures.

Tool to Precisely Track Your Own RTW Travels

If you’d like to track your own though you can download your own spreadsheet that is fully formatted to calculate your budget as you travel on your own RTW trip – all you have to do is type in your expenses and it calculates the rest! Here’s what the RTW budget looks like if you download it.

And because I just couldn’t help myself, there’s even a mini list of instructions on how to use the spreadsheet (it’s easy, I promise!). When I was planning my own travels I couldn’t find this kind of detailed, country-by-country data with daily costs and the such online – that’s why I’ve posted it  :-)

You CAN Afford to Travel RTW

I’m going to take this opportunity to go on the record one last time and say that RTW travel is affordable. A lot of people have contacted me through blog expressing fears and concerns about financing their own trip – well, it’s doable and just look through any of the other RTW Travel blog links to read about other travelers who have saved up the money to fund their own trips around the world, or found location independent jobs so they can travel and earn money at the same time!  Really, you just have to want it enough to see past all of the obstacles and hurdles we can all surely think up and find the way that’s right for you.  :-)

And now I’m done on my soapbox, I promise!