Freedom to Travel

You don't have to be a millionaire to travel and choose your lifestyle. New Years 2008 I decided to go to Las Vegas with some of my friends. We went on to California and then to Mexico for the next couple days after. I had a blast. I can recommend no better way to spend new years day than on the beach. Especially because my brother called me from home and asked if he could borrow my snow beanie. I like snow sports,
but I hate scraping the windshield on my car early
in the morning. BLAH!!!. The vacation was quite theraputic. The reason we went? Because we couldn't justify not going.



Some don't have the passion to travel, and that is cool too. But I have the blessing of a strong desire to see what the world has to offer. The traditional answer to this 'curse' is to make sure I millions of dollars so I can retire early and then when I am 55 I can 'afford' to travel the world. Or It has been suggested that I get a job that requires me to travel the world for 'work'. These both sound like great options. I am a fan of both these options. But it doesn't really solve my current dilemma. I want to travel the freaking world! Must I be rich to do so? My answer is most assuredly not. My eyes were opened to this when we went on that New Years escapade. The entire trip was only 175 dollars total! (Minus some money spent in Mexico on clothes). I was fairly suprised that we were able to have so much exposure to the world for so little. Granted we are all young and we traveled light, but I was blown away to realize just how cheap it was to travel if one really wants to do so. And I do.

The point of this article is to promote ways of gaining freedom over 'spacial' constraints. Anything from extreme to conventional, executive to vagabond, hitch-hiking to Rent-A-Car. I am going to continue adding posts and links of different ideas and resources for getting freedom of travel. And post comments of additional methods of travel that somebody could benefit from.



(Work in progress)

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"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking that you have something to lose."
--Steve Jobs, Stanford commencement 2005