Travel

I want to travel but I don't know how to start. So guys... if there's anybody from /trv/ here, how do you finance your travelling fees?

>>1
prostitution

middle aged caucasian guy here looking to travel t japan

>>3
kike

Teach English

>>4
Listen here, that response was most rude and innapropriate.  Shape up or ship out, mister!

>>1
Uh... work.  The real questions is where do you want to go and for how long, because that will determine how much money you need.  Having visited and/or lived in about 30 countries on six continents totaling about 7 years abroad(I'm a US citizen), I feel justified in calling myself an expert.  So where do you want to go, and for how long?

I'm on my way out the door, so I'll get back to you later.

>>6
Why dont use "listen here" on that faggot spamming ?

>>7
six continents
No love for Australia, huh? I can't blame you.

So how was Antarctica?

Backpacker fag here. I finance my travels by saving money. Just travel backpacker style, and stay in hostels. I did Thailand/Vietnam/Cambodia/Burma/Bangladesh/India/Nepal/China one year for about 11'000 Canadian. The next I did Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti for about 10'000 (It's a little more expensive anywhere).

TBH you could probably go anywhere with 10k and travel comfortably for atleast 7-8 months, if not an entire year if you know what you're doing

Best experience you'll have in the world, OP.

>>10

Oops..meant to say it's a little more expensive THERE - as in South America as opposed to Asia.

Begging in your travel destination.. no one's gonna know you hopefully

How well does hitchhiking work in Japan?

>>13

Pretty easy. I spent 3 months there once, and travelled a lot on my own since my friends were all stuck in Osaka. I found a lot of truck drivers would be willing to stop. However, you don't really need to hitchhike since the train network is so expansive, cheap and reliable. Apart from that, Japan is very expensive to travel in. It helps to meet some friends on somewhere like 2ch or couchsurfing.com so you can get a place to crash/cheap travel.

>>9
Actually it's South America that I haven't been to yet.

The Ice is cold and dark in the winter, and cold and bright in the summer.

OP here, I just want to meet someone from FL first then after that if he decides to join then I think we would want to go to Amsterdam first, if not I would want to go to Japan then the rest of the Asian countries. I'm not rich and my job does not pay well enough but I can do it anywhere with my laptop, I just need internet access. I hope I can travel before I reach 30 lol.

Just save every penny you don't need to spend. After spending a year in South East Asia, China and Japan wandering around with nothing but a backpack and some money, I never looked at life the same again. While in Cambodia I saw a limbless (no legs, hands) Buddhist offer his last two coins to a Buddhist statue outside my hostel once. Somebody told me a day later he died. Real slap in the face and made me rethink my atheism.

OP here, I want to experience that too. I want to see the world, not just the surroundings, I want to see people. Know about their culture. I wish I have someone as crazy as I am to accompany me. sadly I don't think that guy from FL would want to come with me. BTW I'm a girl. I am really messed up now and i want to go soul searching. The only problem is I have a kid and I need to provide for her. I have no child support. I want to be selfish and travel but I have responsibilities here. Travelling is not really the most practical thing to do for me. But I really want to...

wow. I'm gonna put this as nicely as I can.  You're really messed up right now and you want to go soul searching?  Your soul isn't isn't in Asia or at the end of a fatty in Amsterdam, which is, by the way, a very expensive city.  I don't know the whole story here, but I do know that part of the reason you're "really messed up" is that you've already profoundly changed your life because you did something you really wanted to do, something impractical, when you should have known better; when you were told countless times how to prevent an unwanted pregnancy.  Now, so you can't say "nobody ever told me" I'm gonna tell you what to do now.  Take responsibility for yourself and your child.  Forget this desire to travel, which is, in part, a desire to run away, find a job, and work hard.
If you leave your child you will only be compounding the mistakes you've already made, and making that road to "finding your soul" longer, perhaps even too long to ever finish.  You have at least 18 years of hard work to do now, and the more you avoid it, the more likely it is that you will never finish it.  Stay with your child.  Raise your child.  Provide for your child.  If you work hard enough, in 5 or 6 years you should be able to continue your education.  And as long as you use your head, in 20 years or so you should have enough money and time to travel. I suspect that you will still be in your 30's or early 40's, and would then have an education that would enable you to better appreciate the experience. 
     I'm not telling you anything you don't already know.  The voice inside your head telling you these same things is the adult in you.  Your reproductive indiscretion has, as you were warned, forced you into the adult world.  You can continue to try to avoid it, but it's too late now.  Avoiding it will only make you a shitty adult, a shitty parent, and a shitty person.

>>18
>I wish I have someone as crazy as I am to accompany me

Ah, you'll meet crazier people when travelling. People say solo travel is the best way to travel because you decide where to go next. You're a nomad, alone on the entire planet, aimlessly wandering around meeting people. It's a easy to romanticize it because it's so true. But along the way you'll meet people from every corner of the globe from every walk of life. All you need to do is step into a hotel and you'll meet other travellers, share experiences and bus rides and make long lasting friendships.

Don't listen to >>19. Thousands of young people backpack around the world each year. It's actually a pretty trendy thing to do these days because it's so cheap, easy and rewarding. It's not about finding your soul, this isn't the 1960s. People travel to see the real world, not the sterile, fake, cold, unfriendly life people like this poster live. A world full of different colours, smells, religions, traditions, customs. A world full of the poorest, hungriest, most helpless people who still manage to wake up every morning and try their best to survive. People travel to see the thousands of years of human culture that exists and have fun doing it.

Don't listen to >>20

Wow, discrediting posts is much easier than I thought it would be!

>>20
Uh... did you read my entire post?  I was responding to the fact that she has a child. 
BTW, my first post in this thread was at >>7.  And you think you can tell me something about travel, or the world?  Here's something you better know about the world:  If you bring a child into it, that child becomes your world.

OP here, hey, I'm actually really happy with my child, I provide for her. it's not the reason why I'm messed up. I just really want to travel. My mom helps me raise her but I give all the money she needs. The only thing that's holding me back is money. I don't think a year would do any harm. My child is already in school. It's just that I don't know what I want with my life yet and I think travelling would help me. I want to see the world in another way. I know it's not a responsible thing to do. But all that I've been doing for 5 years is work. I graduated from college btw so school isn't really an issue anymore.

>>10
T_T 10000 Canadian is more than 400000 in our currency. I can only save a maximum of 4000 per month. That would be 10 years! Waaaah! I really need to find another job if I want this dream to come true... I'm already 24... Oh well, it's starting to look hopeless...

>>22

Oops, yeah sorry. For some reason I missed the fact that she had a kid; how this happened I don't know (stoned at the time I think).

In that case, OP, take care of your child for her sake. Don't travel until she can take care of herself, you'd only be letter her down if you were to abandon her on some soul searching quest around the world. There IS the option of travelling with her. In fact, in my travels I met plenty of couples that were travelling with their kids. There was a solo mom from Poland who was all over South America, India and Africa with her 10 year old daughter. I don't know your financial situation, however, as it costs a lot to take somebody who has no source of income.

Anyway, best of luck, you'll travel some day; just keep saving.