Are you able to enjoy travel on the typical 2-5 weeks PTO in the US? After a few backpacking and bus tours, I feel like you’d need to be out a good month at a time to really be able to soak a place in, and makes me want to do 3-6mo a year lol. FIRE is within reach but curious if yall are ok w/ 4 or less weeks a year in the long run also.

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I tend to travel on Fridays and it's working alright. I actually save a lot of PTO, too to be rolled over

I have 3 weeks PTO and just came back from a 2 week Europe backpacking trip. You can do 2-week backpacking trips to 2-4 cities if you combine with big holidays (i.e. July 4th) and there's good transit connecting those cities (i.e. Eurail). It isn't ideal but waiting to retire to travel isn't a good option 🤷🏽‍♂️

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