@No Quarter : Thanks for the vids ! Yep, I know Gabriel Traveler (at least some of his vids). He is the perfect example of what I don't want my world trip to be. Nothing against his way of doing it (and which is successful), but he's living too much on a budget for my taste. My view is that such a world trip, even if you can't sleep in 5* hotels everynight still has to be pleasant and always counting how much you're spending, putting limits on your daily spending to try to reach the lowest level possible is not what I find pleasant for such a trip. If I decide to travel the world just to live like a bum, sorry but I'd rather stay where I'm living. Again, I'm not talking about a balla way of life, but I think that there's still some room between this way of life and Gabriel's which is uber cheap.
Thanks for the invitation ! If I come around your city I will let you know !
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Originally Posted by JustJ46671
OP...
Tell us a bit about yourself.
How old are you? Where are you from?
Will you be hitchhiking?
What sort of skills do you have, should you find yourself someplace you may want to stay for an extended period of time?
I'm 40 (still look like 35 because of my very healthy diet). I'm living in Europe and as you know if you watched the news, Europe is dying. Some personal events in my life made me be aware that life doesn't last forever, and I've always thought that life couldn't just be a day to day job with hollidays once a year. I've always been looking for something else, even if not knowing where to find it (nor how to find it). I've had many 'lives', I've been an artist in various different fields, jurist, and now I've got a day to day job in another area. I've been working quite a lot those past 10 years, I didn't really know why I was working that hard, but now I know : to be able to travel the world, totally free, and with no financial issue. Besides the money I've been able to save, I will get the money from the sale of my appartement as well.
Will I hitchike ? Why not ? I will also mix little hotel, hostel, and CS. I thought at some point about house sittings but I don't think I'm gonna do those. If I sleep in hostel I will sleep either in 4 bed dorms or in single rooms like I did when I traveled abroad in 2011.
My skills ? You mean besides being handsome and a very cool dude ? lol
Well I speak 3 languages, have been to the university, am sociable and in whatever customers kind of job I've been working they all always loved me because they were dealing with a truthworthy person being human and not only thinking on a selfish way.
My plan is to take a one way ticket for somewhere and improvise. If I want to stay longer there (and if I can visas wise) then I will. If I want to go somewhere else then I will catch another one way ticket for another city or country, and I will repeat the process. The goal is to be totally free, with no schedule, no more ties in Europe (I'm single, no kid, no loan/debt), and with the ability to go where I want to go, and do what I want to do.
I can't wait to experience this total freedom once in my life.
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Are you trained to kill?
I'm quite good at killing nasty mosquitos. I've killed a bunch when I was in the jungle in the Amazon in january this year.
I still can't put up with roaches tho. They are a true phobia. I still don't know how I could stay in the jungle for that long for so many in the shed I was sleeping everynight and I have some anxiety to have them as night buddies when I go to India (never been there).