Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge skills insight and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My name is Joshua Sheetz. I am your host. Today on the show, I want to share with you how to make travel less exhausting.

Now that's the title that I'm choosing to go with, but frankly, I could expand this title in a number of different directions, how to make life less exhausting.

Let me begin with a story as to what stimulated me to think about this.

My family and I, my wife and our four young children ages seven and under, are currently on a tour de mold. We're traveling the world.

We have been traveling for several months now. We started in Mexico. From Mexico, we moved to Costa Rica.

From Costa Rica, we moved to the United States for a few weeks and from the United States to Europe.

We spent some time in Portugal. Then we flew to Malta. Spent several weeks on Malta. Then back to Portugal. In Portugal, I bought a car.

And we have since traveled across the European Peninsula, or even across the Iberian Peninsula, into France with some time in Spain, also in Andorra along the way. And we are now currently in France.

And over the past few weeks, I have enjoyed our travels. It has been neat to take my children to some new destinations, show them some new things.

I keep a track. And so far, this is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. We're now in our eighth country on this trip.

And it's been really fun to see my children learn new things, do the world schooling thing quite a bit. It's been really neat. We're driving across Spain. Look, there's a castle.

Look, there's a castle. Look, there's a castle. It was really neat. It was neat to be in Andorra and get a chance to show them the little alpine wonderland that is the little micro state of Andorra.

And now being here in France, it's been just, it's been really fun. It's also been very, very tiring. And a few days ago, I was just kind of done.

I was sitting and talking with my wife and I was feeling exhausted. And I don't usually get exhausted. I'm one who enjoys a pretty good reserve of energy, consider myself to be fairly indomitable and not to pay much attention to how I feel.

Just press forward. I have good stores of energy, et cetera. I'm in good health. And I was just done. And I started thinking and talking with her about why? Why do I feel this way? And what I finally realized was that I was just worn out with making decisions.

I was worn out completely and totally worn out with making decisions.

Let me describe this to you so you understand why? In the style of travel that we have currently chosen, we are traveling in a very open-ended way.

We started our trip and we have no fixed dates on anything. I have a list of a dozen or so destinations to which I'm trying to get for a dozen or so different reasons.

And I'm hoping to get to those, but if I don't get to them all, it's okay. And if I get something different, I'm sure I'll find something interesting about that.

We have put all of our stuff in storage, so we got some suitcases and that's it. Everything else is sitting in a storage locker. And that's great.

We don't have any fixed location. I honestly don't know where I'm going to be from day to day. And our style of travel has been no forward tickets purchased, flying basically on one way tickets into each place, choosing a hotel a few nights at a time, possibly as much as a week at a time.

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