Got back from a month in Europe yesterday. Road trip skiing in Austria, Switzerland and Italy. Flew into Munich got a BMW 5-series wagon with the small diesel engine and put about 2000 km on it. Skied pretty much every day with 1-2 days at each resort. After about 20 days of hopping around I picked up my wife and daughter in Milan and we spent our time in the Dolomites ending in Cortina. Then drove back to Munich and my wife flew home through Atlanta to get home quicker and I went through Paris to guarantee Delta One since I aggravated my back at the end of the trip and my daughter went to Copenhagen to meet up with her college roommate and her mom. Been on the road(and planes) like this since getting a seasonal job with Delta in 2021. My daughter has been to every continent but Australia in the last 1.5 years including 3 weeks in Antarctica this November. My budget when alone in Europe is not too bad, I stay in airbnb's or hotels for $70-100/night, ski for free on the Epic and Ikon passes($1100 and $350 respectively but I buy them anyways for work skiing) and pretty much hardly eat out. Sometimes I hook up with clients who I guide skiing or do skiing road trips with friends. My Asia budget in Vietnam/Thailand when I'm alone is usually about $60/day total or less including motorcycle or scooter rental and food and lodging. Places like Tokyo are more like $100-120/day. I pretty much always rent a car if staying in one country for a while and usually a scooter in any city that has rentals. Flights are usually about $80-$200 round trip anywhere in the world we fly and I haven't flown across an ocean without a Delta One bed in four years. When we fly on other airlines it's usually between $30-$100 each way depending on distance and airport taxes. Can choose from over 250 airlines. Europe is my favorite and between work, friends and solo/family trips I'm there about 3 months a year. I have the coolest wife in the world who lets me do all this stuff and we've both traveled a lot for work and play over the last 35 years. We told our daughter two years ago(she's 20) that she could fly any time she wants as much as she wants as long as she stays in hostels mostly and eats cheap. She's taken us up on it and pretty much travels any time she's not working or in school(although the Antarctica trip was during school but she got permission from her professors since it was a special opportunity with a friend who works for the cruise line). She does stuff like hopping over to Iceland for a four-day solo backpacking trip or meeting friends around the world when they travel or long multi-destination trips with a good friend or two. My son travels too when he can but he has a new job in Chicago so he's had to cut back.
