Hi! Welcome to our blog! Let me introduce Mario and me. My name is Ally and I am 21 years old. I have a wonderful husband Mario, who is 19 years old. We both love Jesus, each other, family, friends, traveling, eating, and much more.
Now for the good stuff. You read the title correctly! Mario and I are headed out of the country (USA) starting November 11th of this year. We are going to have our wedding ceremony in Honduras on November 24th and after that, we start our “no ending date backpacking trip.” We are planning to hit 34 countries as of right now.
Here is our list:
Greece, Portugal, Malta, Israel, Jordan, Cyprus, Turkey, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Spain, Andorra, France, England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Denmark, Czechia, Slovakia, and Poland
We have been praying, planning, and researching for the last year or more for this. It has taken hundreds of hours to pull this trip together and we still aren’t finished! The Lord has blessed us greatly with the opportunity to do this. We can’t wait to meet people and be able to share the gospel wherever we go.
How are we doing this?
Money- We have been saving for awhile now and using our money wisely while we’ve been in the States. We aren’t being funded in any way and we definitely don’t have a huge amount of money to spend.
We are staying in hostels, workaways, couchsurfing, and with a few friends:
Hostels are usually not as nice as a motel, they have shared rooms (sometimes private), and are made for backpackers.
Cost: $5-10 a night
Pros: Cheap, meeting new people, convenient
Cons: More on the sketchy side, can be dirty
Workaway is a family, couple, or single person that wants you to work for them in exchange for food and/or accommodation. If you work 2-3 hours (5 days a week), you get free accommodation. If you work 4-5 hours (5 days a week), you get free accommodation and food.
Cost: Free
Pros: Meeting new people, learning new experiences, FREE
Cons: Working (Ha!), not having full week days to go explore
Couchsurfing is an online website where you find people across the world that are willing to host you in exchange for sharing dinner, teaching them a new skill, someone to talk to, etc.
Pros: Meeting new people, exploring daily, tips from the locals, FREE
Cons: Can be challenging to find a place, not completely private
Friends is the best way of accommodation and our favorite! We love staying with friends and being able to spend time together.
Cost: Free
Only pros…no cons!
Food- We plan on eating street food, shopping at the market and making our own food, and very rarely eating out.
Transportation- We will fly to and from most of the islands we go to and to the farther away places. Besides that, we will be taking buses, trains, or walking.
Well, hopefully you have made it this far and if you have, congrats! Thank you for reading and we hope you continue to follow along with our crazy adventures. We would love if you could pray for us and our safety throughout the trip. We also have Youtube channel where we will be uploading videos and vlogs. Check out the link below.
YOUR part: If you have any suggestions on what to do, eat, or see in any of these countries, please let us know! Also, if you have any friends that would be willing to host us in any of the countries, we would greatly appreciate it!
Want more details? Or want to find out how to do it yourself? Feel free to ask.
Much love,
Mario & Ally Paz
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