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The change in my life caused me to start travelling.

it makes me appreciate my own home a bit more, knowing that it isn't a complete hell

>>1092232
This.
Specially after visiting middle east and eastern europe and russia

>>1091365
Working holiday visa in Australia famalam

Was the same at 20, working night shift at 7-11 and just generally a loser. Turned it around get a passport, plane ticket and work visa cost you about 1k

>>1091368
I was in pretty bad shape, psychologically. Prepared for a working holiday visa and got better. After 2 months of travelling i started a menial labour job and lived on a hostel.

It destroyed me. Got severe depression afterwards. After 5 months of sea im getting back on track and travelling onwards.

I do not recommend this

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>already emotionally isolated
>considering becoming physically isolated

what could go wrong?

>>1090543
ISIS.

>>1090543
I've done some road tripping in the UAE and out to the Omani exclaves. No risk whatsoever apart from some slightly maniacal drivers (better in my experience than most of Asia, but much too fast and slightly careless) and some police roadblocks to look for alcohol. There are evidently a couple of gray market liquor stores along the highway (that do not check for liquor licenses), and police in one of the smaller Emirates (Sharjah, maybe? Dunno) have been known to stop cars heading home to Dubai. Heard about it second-hand; didn't happen to us.

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>>1090604
Well, I need to go to India almost out of Turkey.. rough draft of what im thinking about doing.. I know nothing about the middle east and i hope an IED doesn't blow me the fuck up... all i know is iraq is bad and iran is good...
EDIT: im a US citizen is that bad?

>>1092494 i heard Sachsenhausen concentration camp is fun

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>>1092494
went to berlin in the summer and had a great time. The clubbing scene there is very interesting and unique but as you might already know the clubs can be very hard to get in.especially if you're a bigger group of people.
The locals have very strict policies in the clubbing scene and they should be respected. The most popular ones are near the Warschauer Straße.
Berlin also has tons of abandoned buildings if you're interested in those. We went to an abandoned amusement park called "spreepark" which was pretty cool and also a bit scary because of the guards roaming around but getting caught wont be a problem if you're a tourist. but it's quite cold atm so i don't know if its worth cheching out since its a bit outside the city.
There's alot of great graffiti art around the city. the checkpoint charlie wall is worth checking out.
Imo the best part of berlin is its nightlife and clubs. what we basicly did was grabbed some beers, headed to warschauer without any major plans. The nights ended up with anything from doing drugs with strangers to chilling in the parks. Drugs are fairly cheap very easy to find, you'll figure it out there.
also note that berlin is a very large city. distances are very long so you should definitely buy a metro pass.

If there's any questions, ill try to answer

also FKK Artemis if you prefer go straight to the cherry as far as the night life goes...

Jagex studios

>>1092464
I do not see on their website what you can visit there but I am more nature beautiful buildings kind of guy. The Buckingham Palace looks nice.

>>1092473
nature and beautiful buildings *

>>1092251
too short*

>>1092251
I'd get a job.

Work or if I don't want to work, I'll get a sublet somewhere cheap and a gym membership. I'm happy working out every day, eating healthy, and reading all day.

Only the shittiest countries are gonna let you in if you have no proof of financial resources.

>>1092179
I know that. I'm not planning on worrying about it tho.

So I'm good to go then right? I'll take the lack of posting as evidence I didn't need any advice about it.

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Oh, and the line up for this year:
http://www.dimensionsfestival.com/line-up/

Im going to Boom in Portugal. Drug user heaven.

>>1092040
Ahh, lovely! I love psy festivals, been to a few here in Australia (Psyfari and Dragon Dreaming). But this time around I'm going for different genres that I also love :)

I only have enough budget for Dimensions. You should also check out OZORA in Hungary and Tree of Life in Turkey.

>1. How do you guys find the money to travel?
I work in retail and earn between A$900-1200 a fortnight. Around this time last year, I opened a savings account dedicated just for travel, and chucked in A$200 every payday, leaving me with a comfortable amount of cash* to spend on necessities** and other things. Sometimes I will put in more than $200, even up to $500, and now accumulated around A$7000 for travel. (I recently lost shifts at work because I'm only a casual employee, and I still want to be able to put in as much as I can for travel because I leave in about 4 months)

My advice is open up a savings account solely for travel, put in X amount of money*** from each paycheck, and DO NOT ever touch that money. Don't even think it's yours anymore, think of it as Future You's money.

>2. Traveling alone. Who here does it? What kind of mindset do you need to enjoy yourself?
I've somewhat done it 4 years ago. Did a Eurotrip with TopDeck before, but then about a week or so of solo time in London and Paris. Being a very reserved and introverted type, it was a bit hard, but staying at hostels help, especially if you meet like-minded travelers as well. It can be a bit lonely wandering around by yourself at times, but you can get through that by just being amazed with new things/cultures/experiences.

I will be going solo again for my next time, but hope to enjoy myself even more this time; adapt and mingle better in social situations.


*I grew up in a third world country, so I can cope better with not having many luxuries that westerners are used to here.
**I live with my aunt, so rent is much cheaper, which helps a lot. To all students/young people living with family, I would suggest saving as much as you can while rent is cheap/free.
***The more value you assign to X, the faster you reach your travel goals or the more allowance you have to spend. I regret not putting more in earlier last year when I had more money.

>>1091992
Do you *really* need a car? Can't you get around using public transport and/or cycling and/or walking instead?

School loans... well, fair enough, they do need to get paid.

Laser eye surgery: How impaired is your vision? Does it stop you from doing your tasks that you need to get done? Does it cause you constant, unbearable physical discomfort?

Straightening your teeth: how fucked are your teeth? Does it stop you from eating? Does it cause you constant, unbearable physical discomfort? Does it scare off every living creature you encounter?


I suppose there are just two ways I look at saving:
1. Stuff I want to spend on for a nice, comfortable, secure, repetitive life as another functioning normal member of society
2. To have different and unique experiences in different parts of the world, create memories and connections with things and people you can't find back home

I have like 800€ per month.
Living for my own costs me atm like 550€ per month, including flat,internet, party etc. I don't have a car so I can save enough money for travel. I need a maximum of 3000€ for a "luxury" 4 month travel, starting with 1k, when I'm flying somewhere.
Well,but keep in mind: I'm not saving for anything else , like a house or something - only travel and a little bit of extra like new clothes and stuff.
Never got into debt at first place

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>>1091923
What day are you arriving? The University of Washington is a nice place to poke your head around for an hour or two. Pic related.

The white horse is a cool spot to spend some time. Gaswerks park is good. Take a tour of the Underground Seattle. Eat good foods, use yelp and shit.

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Get an Orca card so that you can travel across the city.

Why would you choose that route? If I was to choose the most boring route in the entire US, that would be up there in the top 5. The only suggestion I have is maybe spend some time on the Blue Ridge Parkway and Shenandoah Valley. The Blue Mountains are kinda cool and maybe the Ozarks...but, expect to run into lots of meth labs.

Otherwise, Nashville is worth a visit. You don't have DC in there, and I would definitely include that.

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>>1091907

Know some friends along the way, was thinking of visiting. But we could go faster at some places and skip over parts of TN, Kentucky, Ohio. We could probably swing up towards Niagra Falls, and head into Massachusetts, although I'm unsure what there is to visit there aside from Boston.

Could also swing West Virginia if there is something worth seeing there. Great nature is good suggestions, I'll def look it up. I'm also a bit of a history nut so would love to find some good civil war sites, heard there were some good ones in TN.

We've got 21 days on this route by the way.

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Another possible route. I had to apply for the ESTA program to ente the US, do I need some kind of visa to enter Canada from the US? From what I have been able to see, Canada seems fairly chill about this kind of thing.

>>1091899
Vodafone sims are like 10 euros with credit as well

When I was in Germany I got a Vodafone CallYa SIM for $22.50/mo with unlimited talk and text, and 1GB of LTE data. That was a good deal for my two week trip. I used the Rebtel app to get calling back to the US (connected via local phone) for less than two cents a minute.

Bitch is that the entire registration and activation occurs in German with no english translation but with google translate built into Chrome registering to get the SIM mailed to you isn't hard, and topping it off with a credit card is easy doing the same.

>>1091899

T-Mobile works great in Europe, but if you just need data seriously consider just picking up a local SIM for your phone. You'll just get, at best, 3G speeds instead of 4G speeds.

You will be incomprehensible to the monks and they wont really except you if you're not they're type of buddhist. Like... Western Buddhism ("Oh man I am so into meditation and zen and weeabooery/koreabooery and japanese food so zen is like the perfect religon for me") is different from Asian Buddhism(" Have the Theravadas and Mahayanas convert to Zen or die! ").
It's not all Zen/Dalai Lama sexual fantasies and Sushi

>>1091896
I've taken some meditation and dhamma courses at monasteries in Thailand, including two that are very well acquainted with foreign students (Wat Pa Nanachat, in Ubon Ratchathani, in the Northeast, which is aimed entirely at foreigners [name means international forest monastery], and Wat Suan Mokkh, down south), and one that is less so (a local temple in Mae Rim, outside of Chiang Mai--this one was not conducted in English). I found them worthwhile. But these were courses; I paid for them.

Wat Pah Nanachat accepts foreign novices and teaches them using some English (there's also a lot of silence, some Thai, some German, and a lot of chanting in Pāli). But they're not going to accept you just because you want to run away from something; they'll expect you to be a serious student of Buddhism. If you show up knowing nothing and just saying 'let me live here,' they'll turn you away.

Thai Buddhism is the species I know best, but I've also known monks in Mahayana traditions including Tibetan, Zen and Whatever Korean Zen Is Called (Seon, I think?), and my brother- and sister-in-law are both ordained Zen priests. They were all pretty hardcore, and all started by paying for retreats. If you're really committed, or think you might become that way, learn and start practicing first, and/or spend some money on some courses. If you can afford a ticket to Asia you can afford to, and they won't take you seriously otherwise. And of course, if you show up broke with a declared interest in staying indefinitely, most Asian countries aren't going to let you in in the first place. You're not a monk yet.

I don't think that there would be any use for your art skills.

>>1091896
Fuck your art skills, can you clean a toilet? That's probably your most useful ability, especially if you can't read or write or understand anything anyone is saying

I'll get some shit out of the way first:

>I'm 25
>White
>Working in AV
>$15k in the bank
>I have a reliable car

>>1091884
Sure why not the cost of living isn't all that more outrageous than Boston. Coach surf of your bro and friends for as long as you can swing it until you get a job bagging groceries or some shit and then you can be a little more financially stable to have a studio of your own. Los Angeles on the surface seems like an amazing place to live, but sooner or later the place gets to you and you realize it any all that.

>>1091900
I don't think I'll have any problem snagging a part time job right off the bat. I've been able to keep a job consistently for a long time and I'm fairly confident in myself.

Why do you say that the place gets to you? Can you give me some examples/stories or anything like that? I mean I've heard that everyone kinda sucks and it's hard to really connect with people...but other than that?

For some reason I'm guessing you're from Australia or new Zealand. I think Canada has an under 30 visa shit, same with UK. With the Eu I think you need to be sponsored by a company or business to work there. In terms of integration you're gonna have to tell us where you're from and skin colour

>I work with web development and have 3 years of experience under my belt, so I don't think I'll have great difficulties finding a job.

kek

just go to Poland or Romania or some shit, western Europe is fucked.

>>1091839
I'm caucasian, from Portugal.

>>1091843
I've been to Poland, fuck no. Romania, maybe... but I don't know much about it.