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>>1148765
What's your final destination? I can't help you until I know where you end.

As for the route to Nashville from New Orleans, I wouldn't suggest driving through Mississippi and Alabama. There is absolutely nothing to see and nothing to do. Since you are from Belgium I would suggest driving over to Pensacola Beach, Florida on your way to Nashville so you can experience the beaches. The sand is pure white and the water is an emerald colour and the area has history dating all the way back to the 1500s with Spanish settlers.

After Nashville I would suggest driving to Washington DC. The city has a very European feel to it. The city is walkable, urban living, height restriction for buildings, a metro system, full of Americans musems and atractions, and is very monumental. On the way there, you will be able to pass through the Appalachian mountains. Chicago isn't very tourist friendly as it's just big office buildings and business.

Oh and keep in mind how big the USA actually is. Expect 12 hours of driving between New Orleans and Nashville. Having a rental car and paying for gas will be quite expensive. New Orleans all the way to Washington DC is 20+ hours of driving.

The closer you are to the Mississippi river, the worse the cities are, as a general rule, but eastern Tennessee and the Appalachians are very beautiful.
If you -have- to go from New Orleans to Nashville, I would recommend taking I-10 to Baton Rouge, and taking the Natchez Trace from there. Decent bit of history, and lots of little things to see and do. Make sure to take a detour to Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge if you can. Lots of amusement parks and attractions there.

>>1148851
>Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge
Meme tier tourist trap garbage tЬh

>>1148694
Hey man I agree with what you heard, I was depressed for the longest time for a variety of reasons but the main one was my best friend dying of cancer and I agree with what you were told. I spent a month in spain and spent about 6 grand, although i stayed in hotels not hostels and i spared no expense. I could have done it for around 3, the only thing that might fuck you over is the exchange. If you live out east it will be way cheaper, I went yyc yul bcn, then back through toronto so it was pretty expensive. With europe the thing you have to keep in mind is that the longer you stay the more you amortize the cost of your ticket so you want to go for at least three weeks to really get a good bang for your buck.

if you're trying to make your trip longer I'd recommend going to places where your dollar goes further. Eastern Europe was sooo much fun. prague budapest and poland were the best part of my eurotrip and the money we spend there for 2 and a half weeks was the same amount of money we spent in western Europe for 3 days... keep that in mind. I'm planning my next trip with 3k usd and it's going to be a 3 month trip for eastern Europe again and south east asia just because people talked so much about it and said it was super cheap too.
looking into hitting up croatia and Greece as well. everyone said those places were super nice we just didn't think that was a thing so we skipped it.

>>1148735
Prague and the Czech Republic are really beautiful, been to Prague 5 times. It's cheap and gorgeous.

>>1148686
>not so legally bypass the border

Your excuse for not crossing properly is paperwork? I don't believe it, and the police won't believe it either once you inevitably get caught. Enjoy your time in whatever fuckmeintheassistani jail you eventually end up in.

>>Any other tips on living a nomadic lifestyle are also welcome.

There's a big difference between traveling frugally and being a skinflint miser.

Fuck's sake OP just get an international drivers license and cross borders at border crossings. You can do whatever Real Traveler (TM) shit you like during the 99% of your trip when you're not with police and customs agents but if you ignore the law for long enough you're going to end up in a third world gulag

It's much easier than you might think. Just use common sense and a dash of creativity.

Cool idea I guess but very shitty execution.

I really like it!

I like this idea a lot, actually.
Feels cozy and genuine. Might steal.

>>1148560
Spend a few days of your trip just doing nothing. Browse 4chan for a day or two, bang a hooker, sleep in extra long, watch tv...

Maybe don't travel for 4 months at a time.

Sounds like you're just over-stimulated. I did a super long trip and whenever it felt that, it was time to live somewhere for a bit. You've got 10 days left so just do something fun...or don't, But I think people feel this pressure to do something amazing every single day you're out there and people need to realize that it's okay to have a shit/okay day out there.

Where are you from? Scandinavia can be very friendly to foreigners. The stereotype is mostly true but you sort of get a free pass as a foreigner. I cleaned up and made a ton of friends over there - it also helps if you genuinely care to learn about their culture. No one cares to learn Scandinavian culture (not even immigrants lel) so it made me stand out to know a lot of random shit about the area/people.

I heard the girls there are into accordion players.

Me and all the other travellers that I encountered in Yerevan were surprised by the quality of the girls there. I went to a spanish bar to meet a belgian girl I had meet during a tour and she was there with a belgian-armenian friend and his armenian cousin. At some point the belgian armenian girl went out and after chating started making up. The cousin appeared from nowhere and separated us telling that this was not possible. The girl run into the bar and I just left.

Funny, I was thinking about starting a thread to talk about my time in Armenia.

I go every summer, I loved it enough that I bought a summer house in Dilijan.

Rent a bike, go to Christiania, buy beer from a grocery store and drink it literally anywhere you want. Enjoy the laid-back athmosphere of the city. And of course be prepare to pay shit load of money of everything

kys

>>1148396
>buy beer from a grocery store and drink it literally anywhere you want
Spotted the American.

Fried carciofi are breddy gud.

>>1148381
Try the Iris

>>1148381
Lmao is that really their flag?

To follow up on that, my ideal situation would be having a seperate card, where I can log onto my current account online, transfer money into it, without fees or very little. And then once money is on that card, I am able to use that card at ATMs or any stores without receiving a transaction fee. Is there anything that provides this? Or even anything better?

Get a Qantas Cash card, if you're already a Frequent Flyer member all you need to do is go online and request one. I currently have a couple thousand dollars between a few different currencies.

>>1148367
You fucked up man - left it too late.

https://www.citibank.com.au/aus/banking/everyday_banking/citibank_plus.htm

No fees for foreign exchange or CitiBank fees. Only thing it costs you is the local atm fee. The exchange rate is good too - pretty much identical to XE.com and no account keeping fee. Best option there is. But you won't get approved in time.

>>1148232
Every country? Crazy. It's been done, if a lot of countries you only more or less pass through.

A better goal is to visit every country in the world you can name, or in general just countries that are significant in history, culture, population, or in some common meaningful way.

Even so, visiting dozens and dozens of countries is much more realistic if you vagabond it or are wealthy.

I would just take it one trip at a time. They add up over the years.

Many people have done this. One guy is currently attempting to be the first person to visit every country twice. And he's counting all the random-ass places like Pitcairn as countries.

Since most cultures and languages don't adhere to national boundaries, wouldn't it make more sense to draw a grid over all the earth's landmasses, and visit each box in the grid? Makes more sense than saying "I've been to Beijing, I've seen China."

It's very common not to associate with your high school friends by the time you're 4 years into adulthood

Looks like you've got that whole thing down, minus the adulthood part

>>1148210
hell then I guess I'm the minority, I'm still friends with all of my close circle of friends from high school. I even rent 2 of my rooms to 2 of them. One moved away for college and were still close to, Skype a good amount of days a week as a group.

I can see how your nomadic life style could cause some strain on friend ships but if you actually wanted to be thier friend you would kept in contact or made an effort to catch up every now and then. If you want to make new friends you need a hobby, it will help with your social anxiety too and improve your confidence since you'll be good at whatever your doing.

Oh god, those feels.
>Hardly any friends, because I can't relate to people who don't travel
>Few friends I have don't want to talk about traveling
>Even when my travel experience is relevant to conversation, afraid to bring it up for fear of sounding like I'm bragging

>>1148152
Nah, they're all Algerians anyway.

>>1148152
I don't think they will. I wouldn't (Frenchie here). Is that term supposed to be offensive?

>>1148176
Good luck avoiding our current #1 export - terrorists.

>>1148152
No dude.
>>1148176
Sorry it's not funny.

>>1148147
Know is a bit much, but this Indian guy went back on vacation and died in a traffic accident.

>>1148169
>Designated dying street

>>1148147
My wife's cousin was on a Caribbean vacation and was pulled under the water and drowned by an undertow.

>>1148120
I'm not telling you shit you demanding little fuck.

>>1148120
'bout tree miles fiddy outta Cape Town.

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>>1148120
this should do the trick. compare with google for exact road names. everything above the line is pale and everyone below is a nigger

once a day bump bump

>>1148083
I live in Vicenza so ill try and help.

If you fly into marco polo go to venezia san lucia trainstation, buy a train ticket to padova should take about an hour

>>1148554
what would be the best way to go from the airport to the trainstation?