We’ve worked our way up to a consistent ~$10 per hour in trickle busking during peak times (weekends). We have yet to see any consistency in weekday trades, but we’re trying it this week.
I redid our numbers. My original figures failed to really reckon everything up (especially the projected cost of our wedding in 2010)... These figures do, too, but what they fail to include is some small bits of income from interest (~$50 a month until we deplete our kitty below $10,000)
Here’s what we have (total transparency):
What we’ve been spending:
Brendan's account:
10/10/08: ~$15000
1/02/09: ~$13000
~$25/day
Stina's account:
10/7/08: ~$4500
1/02/09: ~$2800
~$18/day
Total remaining in all accounts: ~$16000
Projected large future expenses:
Return tickets from abroad: $1000
Wedding: $3000
Brendan’s Student Loans: $50x18 + $400x6 = $3300
Stina’s Student Loans: $90x18 + $130x6 = $2400
$16000-$9700 = $6300
Approxmate days left in our trip: 550
Approximate allowance per day: $11.45 plus income
This is good. We’ve been far too free and easy with money when free options were staring us in the face. We didn’t do the legwork until we learned this to find actually free wireless, just cafe wireless (which is ~$3 per trip), and we’re starting to seek out events to entertain us for free, which are generally much more fulfilling than those that cost money (see the free concert of a few days ago). This city being what it is, free food is occasionally available (attended the grand opening of the new Vespa dealership - thought of Philip - and had a delightful chicken rigatoni with cream sauce, sadly nothing for Stina.), and the cultural and arts scenes are vibrant.
Februray 25th Leave NOLA
February 26th Arrive Houston
February 28th Leave Houston
Skim Mexico’s northern regions
March 8th Arrive san diego
March 12th Leave san diego
March 14th Arrive Tulare
March 20th Leave Tulare
March 21st Arrive San Francisco
March 23rd Leave San Francisco
March 25th Arrive Humboldt
March 27th Leave humboldt
March 30th Arrive Portland
April 1st Leave Portland
April 2nd Arrive Seattle
April 22nd Leave Seattle
May 6th Arrive wisconsin
May 13th Leave Wisconsin
May 21st Arrive Ottawa
May 24th Leave Ottawa
May 25th Arrive Montreal
May 27th Leave Montreal
May 30th Arrive Maine
June 1st Leave Maine
June 4th Arrive DC
June 7th Leave DC
June 10th Arrive NYC
June 30th Leave NYC (JFK)
July 1st Arrive Dusseldorf
Tour Germany
July 7th Arrive Scandinavia
July 20th Leave Scandinavia
July 25th Arrive Amsterdam
July 30th Leave Amsterdam
August 1st Arrive France
August 7th Arrive England
August 9th Arrive Scotland
August 13th Arrive Wales
August 18th Arrive Ireland
August 30th Leave Ireland
September 5th Arrive France
September 9th Arrive Austria
September 24th Leave Austria
September 26th Arrive Hungary
September 29th Leave hungary
October 4th Arrive Greece
October 17th Arrive Italy
November 3rd Arrive Spain
November 12th Arrive Portugal
November 20th Arrive Spain
Check finances
Either
Return to Seattle or Wisconsin (in time for Thanksgiving!)
Or
November 25th Arrive Morrocco
November 30th Arrive other parts of Africa
Tour Africa (Making our way 'round the coasts)
February 27th Leave Egypt
March 10th Arrive Asia
Tour Asia (especially Vietnam, Thailand, India, Japan)
June 14th Leave Asia
July 6th Leave Seattle
July 20th Arrive WI
October 10th Get Married
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2 comments:
Wow! Even one third of that seems extremely ambitious! If anyone can do it you two can but I hope you won't be hard on yourselves if you run out of $
Keeping tabs on every practical thing and reporting is interesting and good training for voluntary simplicity I know you won't be the Scrooges of busking and the emphasis won't be how long can it lasts rather than quality an experience.
You guys rock. And OMG! You're going to be in Humboldt when I'll be in Humboldt on our theatre retreat! Come to a rehearsal and let's hang out!
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