How much per year would you travel if no money/time restrictions

We have no restrictions of either. We are trying to spend most of May and from mid-September through Oct in Europe often built around a cruise. Also try to spend Jan through mid Feb in Florida/Caribbean. We enjoy Colorado summers. We have given some thoughts to a long term stay of multi-months. That is still a possibility when we get older.

10 - 12 weeks each year sounds nice. Between Spring/Summer & Fall/Winter, alternately each year. Get a bit of the change of seasons from the different European countries and indoor & outdoor activities they offer.

Without restrictions I would break up my travels into the following categories:

• Middle of the road European travel both guided and unguided
• Luxury level long weekends at nice hotels (anywhere in the world).
• Adventure travel
• American road trips/National Parks

For duration I think 3-6 weeks would be good.

With no time or money restrictions I would travel most of the time. When I say travel I don't mean packing up and moving every few days or even every couple of weeks, that would get old after a while. I would love to spend at least a month or more at a time in different locations all over the world. I'm not a homebody, have never found myself when traveling wishing I was home - never ever - and I have traveled for up to 2 months at a time. Since I would be traveling all the time I would not have a permanent home here in the US. I would come home for a month or so every now and then to see family but that's it. I think I was a nomad in in prior life.

You'd have to add another 'lack of restriction'- health issues with self or family. We now have the time and more money than in the past, but due to health issues, haven't been able to go too far way or for very long. If/when that clears up, I'd love to do trips of 2- 4 week lengths at least every 2 to 4 months. That would mean 3 to 6 trips a year. But right now, I'd settle for one trip of however long I could make it. I miss Europe!!!!!

Beyond fantasy, travelling can be pretty exhausting, temporarily living in one spot, maybe less, but if you are someone who has family or obligations in one place...then the amount of travel is not as much as you might think.

My own thoughts, upon retirement I should be one of the fortunate ones, if we can manage ~6 months of travel broken up in the year (Europe, Mexico, the US, and other destinations) then we would be happy.

Before making my first long trip, I read that the 3-month mark was a common "hump" to get over. Long-term travelers who didn't pack it in at that point tended to fall into an easier rhythm or comfort zone afterward. I think that held true for me, too. I do like to be home for Christmas.

Fifty-two weeks a year.

If I could, I'd do what Nancy said: travel all the time but stay put. I'd do a month or more, renting a house/villa etc. and become a local for as long as I wanted, then move on to another location. Sounds wonderful!

I'd buy an apartment in Paris and go back and forth between here and Paris for 3-4 months at a time. While in Paris, I would take trips when I felt like it. I'm with Nancy, Zoe and Susan, I never ever get tired of being in Europe and I'm never ready to come home. I've been on many 2-3 month trips and I'm always sad to leave.

I did one full year of travel once and never did I think "I'm sick of this". With the ability to Skype, text, call and email friends and relatives, it's very easy to stay connected to what's going on back home.

I only stopped because I had made the promise I would be back after one year and the money allocated for that year was starting to run out. If there was no restrictions on money, I'd do it permanently - but clearly not just around Europe. There are a lot of other places to see in the world, and I would always made room to come back to the U.S. at least once a year for a month or so to see family, friends - either around Thanksgiving or sometime earlier in the Fall as it is my favorite season to be in New England. But other than that, I'd be perfectly content to keep moving around every few weeks or months from place to place on a permanent basis.

I would go constantly, but i would always come home at least once every 5 -6 weeks to see my kids, or i would fly them out to join us for a few weeks. This assumes i have won the lottery.

The last 3 years, I consider my self a perpetual traveler. No sooner are we at home until we're looking for our next travel bargain. But traveling to great places often takes the special out of travel.
What's strange is that whenever I'm home, I very seldom visit any of the larger towns within 2-3 hours of home. We do spend time in our RV in the mountains, but prefer to stay at home the rest of the time.

This year, we intend to slow down our international travel and maybe travel some in The States.

x1 five week European trip (in the northern summer)
x1 2-3 week trip closer to home, or with less logistics involved (in the northern winter)
x2 3-4 night 'long weekends (in spring and autumn)

When I retire in 7 years (time seems to tick by more slowly the closer it gets!!!) I plan to spend a lot of time out of the US.
Hoping to rent my house out (or just sell it) and rent apartments all over the world for as long as I can until I get sick of it! Don't know how fast or slow it will take for that to happen but I plan to find out.
Vietnam, The English Lake District, Paris, Costa Rica, and Chile are high on my list. Yes, yes, yes I know there are time limits in some of these places...I'll cross those bridges when I come to them. In the meantime I can dream...

I travel solo--at this time I take a 2 week trip to Europe every year--and while I'd like to take longer trips, I think the most that would be comfortable time-wise is a month--I'd be happy with a couple of 1 month trips per year. I have a good 15 years of work ahead of me, hard to predict what I'll want to do at that point.

If we're talking total dreams without regard to feasibility, I wouldn't mind living permanently in either England (maybe London, or a small village within an hour or two) or Budapest.

Without restrictions of any sort, I would pick a location and "move" to that place for at least a few months, maybe half a year if I could. It would be somewhere outside of the major cities, however. I am not a city person -- they are nice to visit but I begin to feel a little claustrophobic after a while. I need more nature, open spaces, and quiet. Looks like that puts me somewhere in Iceland. :)

Winter and summer in Missouri are both awful. We get two weeks of spring and two weeks of fall, and that's about it for the nice weather. I would take at least one international trip and at least one domestic trip per year. I'd love to spend a month or so in various countries doing immersive language programs.

..and when my health or some other situation prevents me from traveling, I'll keep a library at home full of travel books, photos from past adventures, a TV for watching RS shows and travel related movies, and do some serious armchair traveling.

It wouldn't be more than 50 percent of the time. I love traveling but you can get burned out and need a home base to put your feet up and recharge occasionally.

What Nancy said.

I would have no permanent home unless I fell in love with some location and decided to put down roots there. So far there have been very few that I'd even like to visit over and over, making staying put highly unlikely.

Assuming good health, lots of money and no husband, there would be little reason to return to the USA at all for me.

Our ideal is to spend the summer and autumn here in temperate Melbourne, then escape the cold and wet by heading north. Sometimes that could just mean Queensland, and other times it could mean the northern hemisphere, preferably Europe.

I'd like to be Frank's best friend.

I always enjoyed the tv commercial of the guy walking down the steps in his house, and when he gets to the bottom of the stairs, he picks up a dart and throws it at a world map. When it hits a spot, he says, "I'd better take a sweater", and goes back upstairs to get one. It was a financial peace commercial, but that would be a great feeling being able to do that.

I sure would be gone several times a year for a month or more at a time. Spring time in Europe, summer in Alaska, and fall in Europe. Winters would not be spent anywhere where it gets below 50 degrees. Even with health issues, I could sit on a beach and watch all the pretty g _ _ _s,. I mean waves.