An American couple who give up their company jobs to journey the world have shared how they visited 19 international locations and spent simply $132 per day. 

In March 2022, Claire Zhu, 27, and Peter Ovendorf, 29, from Charlotte, North Carolina, waved goodbye to their 9 to 5 life and hit the highway with a plan to journey. 

The lovebirds documented their ‘company hole 12 months’ on their joint TikTok account the place they boast over 242,000 followers. They shocked followers with their superb, but candid movies that broke down all the things from their joy-filled days to ‘each single penny’ they spent. 

Now, Claire and Peter have revealed that they are going to be extending their international trip till the tip of 2023, and detailed they may afford to stay their nomadic life-style by spending a complete of $48,235 — or simply $66 per individual a day — over their final 12 months of touring. 

After saying they’d be extending their journey, Claire and Peter – who traveled from Thailand to India to Egypt and extra – shared a price range breakdown to their social media accounts to assist another future vacationers comply with of their footsteps. 

They started by revealing that their grand complete was simply over their unique price range of $45,000. 

Their prices included $10,601 on housing, $6,274 on excursions, $9,614 on meals, $9,708 on transportation, and $9,783 on 34 flights. 

Although Peter tracked ‘each single penny,’ they didn’t embody medical health insurance, which they estimated to be about $4,000, bank card charges, which had been round $690, and the bank card factors and miles they used for his or her journey, which was about $9,726. 

Attempting their finest to remain inside price range, Claire and Peter used the bank card factors that they had been saving for the previous 5 years. 

These factors helped them land housing in Norway the place they stayed at a lodge for 18 days.  

To make ends meet, the lovebirds took on paid content material jobs, pet-sit and work in strangers’ houses in change for as a roof over their head. 

Claire revealed they had been in a position to get hold of 107 nights of zero-cost housing – with having slept in airports, buses and trains on a few of these nights. 

Peter – who has an accounting diploma – logged their price range in a really meticulous Excel spreadsheet that helped the duo preserve monitor of their spending. 

Scrolling via a doc crammed with 1,714 complete objects, Claire revealed the couple spent $1.09 on three mangoes in Thailand, and $30.12 on a midnight snack at Norway fuel station. 

And though that they had hundreds over factors, Claire revealed that they don’t seem to be in any debt. 

She defined that the duo let their factors simply construct over time. 

‘To build up factors and miles via bank cards main as much as the journey, we didn’t alter our spending habits in any method, and at no level can we maintain bank card debt,’ Claire wrote on her Instagram.

She added: ‘We obtained some candy COVID offers, but additionally obtained caught with some inflated costs all through this 12 months.’

The couple revealed they visited 19 international locations in only one 12 months: Egypt, Jordan, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Norway, Czech Republic, Hungary, Croatia, St. Martin, Germany, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Turkey, Georgia, New Zealand, Australia, Philippines, and India. 

Along with lifting the lid on their day-to-day spending, Claire and Peter additionally take their viewers together with them so that they can also discover the attractive sights they see, such because the Nice Barrier Reef and the Holi in India. 

And whereas their life-style could appear enviable from the skin, Claire revealed it is not all glitz and glamour. 

She defined that she as soon as had 44 mattress bug bites on her physique, and her and Peter regularly fell in poor health from abdomen bugs. 

And so they even needed to make a couple of sacrifices to remain inside their price range. Many days their weight-reduction plan included yogurt and $1 muffins. 

To remain afloat, the lovebirds solely dined out when visiting lower-cost international locations. Within the costlier areas, resembling Norway, Claire and Peter bought meals from grocery shops. 

Though they’re extending their on-the-go life-style this 12 months, they revealed they weren’t going to be sharing or monitoring their bills as regularly, however they’d nonetheless be sticking to a price range. 

‘In addition to any sponsored or work alternatives, the plan is to nonetheless attempt to preserve a $123 a day common from now till the tip of the 12 months.

‘We try to maintain ourselves with social media however I do not know how that is going to work out. 

‘We’re so new to this. Truthfully, we’re simply low-cost vacationers and low-cost folks at coronary heart,’ Claire revealed.