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What is there to think about? Pick a sex tourism hotspot and bring your laptop.

Congratulations, you are now a 'digital nomad'.

I love these flavour of the month jobs. Youtuber, digital nomad, day trader, english teacher.. I hope the next one is as entertaining as this.

>>1278944
>flavour of the month

some of those jobs have existed for decades

Anyway, I make $40 an hour doing photoshop work, planning on moving to Budapest soon. Was just in Taipei.

>>1278902
>nothing

get google's app called travel it will show you everything it is like extension of maps app but you can save your plans

>>1278902
The galleria and the duomo are the best spots in the city. The duomo is nice for only a few minutes though. It's kinda like the Times Square of Italy.

DESU last time i went I didn't find much to do, so I just went to bars and talked to British tourists

I think 3Glav Adventures / Canyoning Bob (yes, really) does rafting as well. My girlfriend and I went canyoning and paragliding with them. They can either pick you up at Camping Bled or at their office in the town. Nice people, very helpful and friendly. We had a great time with them.

http://www.3glav.com/

http://www.3glav.com/adventures/canyoning-slovenia-bled/

>>1278905
Thanks for your responds. I too found 3Glav and their tours look great but I find 120 euros a bit much for a tour and rafting. Or should I just go for it?

>>1278953
Depends on your budget. I thought it was well worth it, but I wasn't short on cash at the time. I liked the friendly staff, the pickup service and the professionalism they had. I've been on similar canyoning excursions in France and I thought the people organizing those were a lot less careless. The guide was ahead of the group when half of them still had to do jumps. In Slovenia they took great safety measures and they encouraged the whole group to work together. We went with them in 2012 and 2008. I see prices have gone up by 10 euro's since then. Canyoning is 60 and paragliding 100. I'd recommend both.

I don't get the 100 euro's though! When I go to their site rafting the soca is 42 euro's per person. Which I think is a very fair price for what you get.

Difficult to answer such generic questions. Why Maranello, you're really into Ferrari? You should Check Bologna and Cinque Terre while there.
For money, honestly i wouldn't bother bringing a lot of cash, credit cards are accepted like everwyhere nowadays.

>>1278884
Credit cards aren't always accepted everywhere, but you can use them with ATMs everywhere.

Maranello is a village. There should be a cool Ferrari Museum there and plus there's the Formula 1 track, but not much else. Visiting Italy just for that is a total waste, at least check Bologna, is the city where I live and very near Maranello, wonderful place to spend a weekend

>>1278731
Go to The Netherlands you cunt

>>1278731
>Georgia
>expensive
you what now mate

If one of your top priorities is safety, I'd say Croatia and Georgia. The rest of them have some serious issues these days you have to keep in mind.

For example:
Turkey has a power-hungry socialist for a president who declared war on: Change, Kurds and The Internet for Libel (he blocked all of Wikipedia recently).
Mali still has its little terrorist minority which permanently changed and destroyed The Dakar Tour.
Lebanon is still suffering from Syrian spillovers and frequent attacks in the cities.
India is unstable these days due to the rising debts and poverty. And the government corruption is almost as bad as the Philippines these days.
Bangladesh is actually worse than India, the only pro is that they fixed their border disputes, but not the population density.

>>1278704
I live in South Central ak, never been but know a few people who have, up north there isn't exactly a lot to do, supplies are expensive. In a lot of the villages and smaller towns the school is basically the community center, so expect events to happen there

Why are you going that far up op?

>>1278718
thanks for asking! im in the process of being hired by the TSA for the airport there. if i like it i might open a bakery because from what i can tell all they have up there is sourdough and hardtack.

im used to live in kansas, now i live in florida, tired of it and figure i may as well connect the dots and make a straight line across the country!

>>1278720
Pretty sure the reason they have limited bread is due to how long it lasts, and getting other kinds is expensive

Google

>>1278929

tried

>>1278702
Little confused by the question. Do you mean minimum age to travel alone on the train? If so, almost certain there's no minimum age to travel by yourself!

bro, I gotta tell you something that your sergeant should have told you, and it's a real fuckin shame that nobody tells you military guys this.

When I was in Korea as a teacher I saw GI's everywhere, with their families living on base, out with their kids and shit... They all looked like zombies. Dead men walking. Don't fucking fall for that bullshit, dude.

Do not put down roots in the military. You are a rolling stone, and you have a uniform that's a license to wreck pussy. Get a box of condoms, get a tattoo of an American flag or some shit on your bicep, fuck any girl that will let you, and do some stupid shit with your life while you still have the youth and the freedom to get away with it.

If you put down roots while you're in the service you'll get fucked. If you try to get a house somewhere, guess what, you're deploying somewhere else. If you try to get a QT, guess what now she's a military wife, and while you're out there in afghanistan getting blown up by cellphones and shit, she's at home, bored as fuck, living on base surrounded by another batch of hot sweaty 19 year old dudes that just signed up.

You don't need this shit in your life right now man. The only constant in your life right now is that Uncle Sam is gonna tell you to go somewhere, and then just when you think you're gonna stay somewhere for a minute, he's gonna tell you to go somewhere else.

Figure out where you wanna live and what kind of woman you want to have AFTER you get out and hit that GI Bill. But don't wife up or root down until you're done with the military.

Every military guy I've ever met when traveling looked like shit and wanted to die if he had roots while he was still in uniform. That shit is a recipe for disaster.

>>1278791
I really do appreciate the advise and this is really fucking solid advise I actually do give a similar talk to my soldiers.
I should of given more information about myself. I am in the reserve and currently deployed, I am not looking for a woman I am looking for a city that I can start my professional career. I am at the end of my 6 and I don't agree with the direction the current Army is going.

>>1278927
I'd recommend The Netherlands.

Not even Amsterdam has more than a million people, the Nightlife is solid in all of the cities and it's a perfect place to "plant your roots".

The only real con is the Language, but it's easy if you have some experience in German.

Good Luck Soldier...

>>1278572
I studied in Glasgow for a year as part of the erasmus program. Ask away

>>1278576
Are much thibgs required?
Ass B2 english level or somethibg, what u consider the things most importants that i need?

>>1278572
If you study in Glasgow you'll have to adapt to the thick accents, Edinburgh university has a more international/English presence

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OP here, will be checking here daily and bumping. Happy travels :)

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for private campsites, there's one on the rez in north van, and there's one in burnaby, neither are good locations, especially if you want to go out at night, spend like $20 more to stay at the jericho hostel, pic related

garibaldi lake is all the way up to whistler, do you expect to do that, and then drive home on sunday? from vancouver the hike and drive roundtrip is about 9 hours, I'd stay closer and do mt froome

There are plenty of campsites out on Vancouver Island (which, imo, is way chiller and more beautiful than around the city). No idea if you'll need to reserve, I imagine you might have to.

Go out for a day and visit Victoria

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>How close to masochism do you think this idea is, considering that my greatest biking achivement so far was riding ~20km per day to college and back?
Depends entirely on you. Shouldn't be a problem though. Just slow down and take rests if you think you're too much of a fuccboi to continue cycling.
>Will i suffer from bad weather?
Depends on the weather and how bad a dude you are to cycle through rainy days.
>Or from any possible effects of biking all day (except obvious, exhaustion)?
Might get some cramps or a sore ass if you're saddle is shit. Apart from that, nothing really assuming you're a healthy individual.
>Do you think this kind of savant poorfag travel is a bad idea?
Not at all. Why would it be?
>Is it absolutely necessary to have those pro biking clothes, or do i have a chance to keep my skin on my legs even in a pair of shorts?
I do bicycle trips in cargo shorts and jeans. Don't want to look like those racing fags in their tryhard homo outfits. Never had a problem.
>Not to mention that my bike is far from good.
This might be a problem.
Personally I think carrying to much stuff on your bicycle if the worst mistake you can do. You will be awfully slow on an overloaded bicycle. Try packing all your shit on your bike and go for a test ride to see if you can manage acceptable speeds like that. I'd drop the engine though.

>>1278242
damn, i really love my engine. This little chink piece of shit was brought to perfection after entire year of trial and error, although vibrations on the handlebars probably don't make it suitable for all day long ride. It's relatively lightweight two-stroke, will +10kg really make this much of a difference?

On the other hand, going there purely and exclusively on my own sounds a little bit nicer than going there with the engine, even if it wouldn't be used as a main source of power. It's good to know that normal clothes are alright.

I guess trying before doing sounds reasonable. I'll try to pedal with the engine attached (but not used) to the nearest water resort place, it's 80 km from me. If i feel like it wasn't good enough, i'll remove it.

>Why would it be?
Thunderstorms, wild animals, general downsides of living in a small box made of cloth near the forest. But i guess it shouldn't be a problem after all, maybe except the possibility of long rain period.

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>>1278250
>+10kg really make this much of a difference?
Absolutely. A couple of kilos often make the difference between being able to ride up a hill and having to walk your bike in my experience. Expect to be several km/h slower with an extra +10kg attached to your bike.

But as said, pack your bike and go for a test ride to see if the weight bothers you with your engine. Bicycle touring is somewhat of an edgy hobby. There's lots of different ways to go about it and little advice that everybody agrees upon. I wholeheartedly recommend packing as light as possible though.

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>>1278168

>tour of Europe
>1. Chicago to NYC

I get what you mean, but still, lol.

Honestly /trv/ will probably hate your list since you're only going to mainstream locations. Nothing particularly wrong with that, bit don't you want to see some more unique locations? Berlin to Istanbul is also skipping out on SO MANY cool places.

>>1278181
>see some more unique locations
no, not really trying to do anything crazy right now. I'm planning a basic bitch tour because I've never really been to Europe and am starting from basics.

Skip Chicago to NYC you will save almost as much money as you will spend in Europe with exception of London. Go to Amsterdam and ditch your plans with intention of taking bus to Berlin. You will meet friends in Amsterdam. Stay at White Tulip hostel. 4 days in Amsterdam and you will move on.

>>1278131
I'm interested in this topic too. I eventually want to spend a month with Tuaregs and hit the central Asian steppe.

>>1278131
I've been to Atacama desert and the Patagonian desert. Some of those small towns in Patagonia looks so depressing I don't know how people live there.

>>1278183
you probably need to do a reality check on your image of how the tuareg live today

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Been there many times on business.

If you love the smell of sewage, love getting sick from the food, love having people constantly grabbing you attempting to get money from you, and love smelling people who haven't bathed in more than a year....then it's the place for you.

It's a complete and utter shithole. I wouldn't have kept going back there if my company didn't pay me so much.

Every now and then, it was good to smell a dead body. It was a welcome relief from constantly smelling the shit and piss of several thousand people in the middle of the street.

>>1278757
Well, not what I was hoping to hear, but thanks for your input anyway. Has me rethinking this trip, actually

>>1278082
Don't come here. You'll be disappointed.

>>1277948
Learn as much Spanish as you can. Prepare yourself to eat the shittiest food possible. No way not to get scammed, it's a way of life. Other than that it's a very fun place and doesn't leave anyone not touched even a bit. Just go with the flow and enjoy the ride.

>>1277948
I've heard it's incredibly safe.

I'm an American though so going to Cuba is a tough thing for me to pull off.
Also scamming is a way of life anywhere that is underdeveloped and you have money. locals gets scammed by eachother, let alone a foreign student with serious dosh.

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>>1277948
stay at casa particulares.. they will find you, no need to worry about that.. everyone will hustle the shit outta you, it gets tiring but its a way of life.. I found that if I was alone I had constant harassment, but if you make "friends" with a local, meaning choose one that annoys you the least, make sure he gets some drinks, and if you need anything get him to go get it for you.
The other jinteros will see that you are taken care of and leave you alone.
People will always try to get you to go to a restaurant they know about.. you should occasionally go with them.. the state run restaurants are grim.. but the small family ones can be very good...
dont talk politics, learn to dance, drink rum and practice spanish with the locals.. If you want to pick up, its not hard.. just be aware you pay for everything and she will need money for whatever reason when she is leaving..
Havana is by far the most expensive, Vinales is beautiful, Trinidad is beautiful, Santa Clara sucks.. but you will probably end up there at some point because of the bus system.