Full-Time Travel

Our full-time travel life began with the practical work of leaving a fixed home, reducing what we owned, and planning a route that could work across Europe. Before departure, we focused on packing light, organizing documents, choosing destinations, and preparing for the day-to-day routines of long-term travel.

Once we were on the road, slow travel became the structure that made full-time travel sustainable. We learned to move by train, stay longer in each destination, manage Schengen limits, avoid travel fatigue, and adjust our plans when visa rules or country access changed. Travel days, apartment stays, grocery shopping, laundry, and local transportation became part of the routine rather than interruptions to it.

Traveling with Gus added another layer of planning. Flying internationally with a French bulldog, getting an EU pet health certificate, and applying for EU pet passports in France and Italy all required extra paperwork and timing. These posts explain what we learned while handling those steps ourselves.

This page brings together our full-time travel guides on minimalist living, slow travel, transportation, visas, packing, route planning, and traveling with a dog. It is written for travelers considering a long-term move, preparing to leave, or trying to make life on the road simpler and more workable.