Category: Great Loop Expenses

In this blog post, we share our total expenses as we traveled around America’s Great Loop in one year. After sharing detailed, month-by-month expenses, we have totaled up the past 12 months in this post. By sharing our monthly Great Loop expenses, it will inspire prospective loopers that you don’t need to be retired or…

In this blog post, we share our monthly expenses as we travel around America’s Great Loop – a 6,000 nautical mile journey around part of the US and Canada by boat. As a young couple on a budget, we hope by sharing our monthly Great Loop expenses, it will inspire prospective loopers to going on…

For our second to last month on the Great Loop, we came in high for our January Great Loop Budget! Included in this report are what expenses to expect on the Great Loop to how much we spent exactly in one month. Spoiler: our second largest expense this month was boat projects.

In this blog post, we share our December Expenses on America’s Great Loop. From affordable marinas to getting a free boost of speed going down the Tenn-Tom thanks to some recent rain, we were able to stay fairly close to our monthly goal budget.

The Great Loop is a beautiful adventure full of challenges including the challenge of staying on budget. We knew budgeting for our Great Loop would ebb and flow depending on the season and our location and that’s exactly what it did while we spent two weeks in Chattanooga, TN to work.

There are many factors that go into creating a budget for the Great Loop, but among all is flexibility. We knew budgeting for our Great Loop would ebb and flow depending on the season and our location. We’re happy to be in the midwest rivers with a lower price for dockage, great anchorages, and some…

There are many factors that go into creating a budget for the Great Loop, but among all is flexibility. We knew budgeting for our Great Loop would ebb and flow depending on the season and our location. When doing our initial budget plans, we expected Canada to surpass our lower budget months but we did…

Budgeting for America’s Great Loop comes with challenges. Some areas of the loop have abundant anchoring options while others have very few options. Some regions have higher fuel prices while other regions have relatively low prices. There are many factors that go into creating a budget for the Great Loop, but among all is flexibility.…

You don’t have to be retired or be a millionaire to travel around America’s Great Loop. As a young couple who are working as we cruise around the Great Loop, our budget is strict yet flexible with the approach of saving money where we can, such as anchoring, and spending money on unique experiences such…

We’ve been traveling around America’s Great Loop for four months this year and one of the first things people comment on when they meet us is our age. We are not the typically retired loopers. Following the comment about our age, we get asked if we’re working while traveling, which is “yes, we are working.”…