lmao look how enlightened this travel cuck is, quotes about lions and buddha, literally laughing my ass off right now, guy thinks he is a genius all because he has taken a piss in Taiwan

I've been a happier person since I stopped taking closed minded people seriously brah. No point in interacting with them

traveling is awesome. been to 7 cities in the past 9 months now. haven not gone international, but my passport is coming in friday. where should i go? i was thinking somewhere in central america, since i'll be flying via buddy pass, so it'll be cheap.

the world is a huge fking place... it's always been interesting to see the culture and view how people live their lives in different parts of the world.

Go to South America or Europe boyo. Brazil is fun

kinda want to avoid rio. with all the **** that's going on there right now. i was thinking Belize?

You come across as one of those guys in high school trying to impress his friends by acting all douchey to someone he thinks is beneath them. You're trying waaaaay to hard.

Never been there but I want to. A co-worker went with his wife and he was raving about it and the pics looked awesome

+1 for south america. I haven't been yet but everyone i know that has says it is amazing.

Any way to travel and make money at the same time? Like perhaps working in said countries your traveling to?

Look up TESOL and TEFL certifications. You can get them with a little money and effort and then you can teach in about 95% of the countries around the world. Easy way to make money while traveling.Go to Central America. I suggest Honduras or Belize as a first stop. Get your scuba diving license and then advanced license so you can do all the deep dives like Blue Hole. Diving every day, find a nice little gym to get a lift in, eat good food, meet good women, it's a lot of fun.But bro, look how much money I'll have when I'm 70! I'll be too old to enjoy myself but I'll have so much money when I'm 70! Did I mention how much money I'll have when I'm 70?

Belize is nice if you know what to expect.

It's a developing country so it's not US standard anything. Sometimes the power goes out, crap like that. The diving is amazing, some of the best I've ever done, if not the best I've ever done. At one point during a dive I was surrounded by 16 or 17 reef sharks just going around me and staring at me. They're not violent types but there were so many that I was nervous as fck, especially since they were moving so fast. Also went on a night dive and my light went out. Got to turn back on and a lemon shark was about 2 feet from my face just staring at me right when the light when on lol.

Anyway, the country (island part) is quiet, it's minimum in terms of high tech anything but there are clubs, live music places, AMAZING food and the scenery is great. Definitely worth a stop over if you're going to the area.

My response to you when you're 70: 'Oh you went to brazil wen you were 25? That's cool, hey by the way you missed a spot when you were mopping my floors, could you clean that up?'

*proceeds to go for a ride in my yacht*

Have you ever even been traveling? Try half a day. All you really need to do is sync your sleeping schedule to the local time... WHILE you are still flying on the plane.

People can do whatever they want. If you see the value of travelling, want to do it, and are financially able without going into debt, do it. If you don't see the value and would like to work on other areas of your life, don't travel. Everyone takes a different path, but they all lead to Rome (metaphorically)

Just so you can upload photos onto the internet. neat.

Farthest I've been is England (5 hours ahead) and that wasn't bad to adjust to. But I'm talking 14 or 15 hours ahead like US to China. I assume that's going to take at least a few days to adjust to without feeling chitty.

All you *******s are acting like you go on one or two trips and you have to spend the rest of your life as a toilet cleaner.

There are 10 years in your 20s, smart guys. It's not an all or nothing proposition, you have plenty of time to advance your career and wealth and still have some time off for travelling. I wonder how many of these people saying they are 'building an empire' actually are doing that. Most people are working average jobs and wasting their money away on rent, expensive cars, eating out etc.

Havent even been out of my town in 4 years due to being a slave to the grind.


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Actually, your twenties need to be about setting your future foundation. Go have fun when feasible but the delayed gratification will pay so many dividends later in life.

Always traveling in my 20s brah checkin in. Heading to new zealand next month, if anyone wants to follow my snapchats on it happy to share PM me

LMFAO theres no one way to live life, we have no purpose given to us so live how you want cucks

You're gonna make it brah Srs

I believe it would be better for your health, sanity and happiness to simply work and save only a little bit more than you need to live and a safety net. 6-12 months work, then 6 months travel/pursue you own interests and repeat. Basically mini retirements spread throughout your entire life instead of grinding out 30-40 years with 2-4 weeks holiday a year to eventually end up at retirement in old age where more than likely you just want to relax and unwind rather than doing anything particularly mindblowing.

January 2012 I travelled for 11 months
September 2014 I travelled for 7 months

At the moment I am stacking as much cash as I can for July 2017 where I am going to take another 6-9 months off again and then attempt the 6-12 month work/6 months travel thing.

To each there own.

Speaking as someone who had no idea what to do, I'd say traveling is a good idea.

If you know what you wanna do after school be it work or uni, then go for it. Get that under your belt. If you have a good job then stay there. If you're lost, living paycheck to paycheck or still at mum and dads then go see the world.

Been to Europe 16 times crew.

Can confirm, woke up at 3:30 with jet lag.I filled my gas tank up yesterday. 55 dollars. I did the math in my head and realized that was enough for me to rent a room and eat like 7-8 times over 2 days in somewhere like Thailand. I think a lot of people (in the US at least) get caught in the hustle of trying to make it and then end up spending a lot of their money on rent, car payments and all this other **** that really adds up quickly. Dudes think they're balling because they put 10k away for retirement but they're working 50-60 hours a week while barely making ends meet.

In before everyone posts saying they make 150k a year, etc.

Hell yeah, nothing like starting to enjoy life at 65-70. Whoooo! Can't wait to be too old to enjoy all the things I want to do, sounds like fun.This is the best idea in the thread. It's also one of the reasons I think teaching is a good career for a lot of people who want to try and balance travel and work. Taking 2-3 months every summer to go where you want and do what you want and then coming back to a job with health benefits is a good start for a lot of people. If you can manage to do 6+ months of time to yourself and then work when you get back, even better.

Putting time and effort building a career and/or pursuing further education as a young individual is not a waste of time. Though I wouldn't expect you to understand: Uncle Sam pays for everything, doesn't he? So you really aren't in any position to comment on the sort of life path many of the individuals in this thread should take, seeing as the bulk of them are going to be working in the private sector.

Furthermore, this purported 'imaginary retirement' is not imaginary at all. It is a matter of creating a tangible safety blanket for oneself, in a world where a myriad of essential expenditures come into play. What of building a home for oneself? And for one's family? Paying for the needs of your children and their own eventual foray into college? What do you intend to do when your children get sick when you don't have the money to pay for their treatment?

That idea you are mentioning by the way isn't a 'leftover concept' from WW2. It's called being a functioning and contributing member of society - which is a concept that has existed for as long as people have been living together in the smallest of communes thousands of years ago.

If everyone decided to go off and travel in their 20s, then who would be left to man essential institutions such as dare I say, hospitals? Who would be around to take a gander at you after you catch your third case of crabs from a hooker in Brazil? Being able to pay for your needs and the needs of those close to you isn't the reward you get for 'wasting' your 20s away, it is the reward you get forbeing a contributing member of society.

BTW, for the benefit of the people in this thread, employers want people withwork experience.How exactly do you think it will reflect on you if and when you tell the person interviewing you that you had just spent the last five or six years of your life lazing away in Ibiza?

Didn't bother reading past here.

I really struck a nerve with you. Sorry bud, didn't mean to hurt your feelings. As far as Uncle Sam paying for everything, nope. I got out of the military awhile ago and graduated college, worked in numerous career fields, etc. But thanks for making a grand load of assumptions about me and then trying to insult me. I didn't bother reading the rest of your post but I imagine that's what the rest of it was too, just a much more long winded version.

Also, no one said it's a waste of time to further your education or build a career. It's just a waste of time to grind your entire life away and never enjoy things until you hit retirement age. Expecting kids (yes kids) at 18-22 to decide on what they're going to do for the next 50 years is an absolute crock of ****. Very few people have that innate sense of "this is what I want" at that young age. Instead of forcing people to decide and take out massive debt while doing it, there should be something like a gap year (countries like Israel do it and it works out well for them) where people go travel, work in random countries, etc and figure out what they actually like.

But hey, I learned about that kind of thing while traveling and seeing how other countries do it so what do I know.

Umm... how exactly did I insult you? I am simply clarifying things.

Is it not true that you receive a pension, hence you are in the possession of an additional source of income and are thereby in a position to live your life without having to worry about making a full-time income?

I know a guy who just collected his lump sum payment a few months back. So trust me, I am not insulting you, and in light of July 4, I would like to thank you for your service to this country.

I am simply stating that you can't use your life to justify this idea of 'travel in your 20s' as the bulk of those ITT are going to be working for the private sector - they won't be receiving a pension like you are.