1) Just Go.
Don’t over think it. Today’s world can feel like it is built on series of rules. There are not rules, and you truly can do, whatever you want.
There are no rules. Go Long-Term Travel. You will thank-yourself later. In many cases, its a better investment that a college education. I’d like to see GAP years and around the world trips be as ubiquitous as a colleage education one day. I suspect it will be better for humanity, and the world than just sending more kids to college for an often times, over priced. education.
2) Bring 1/2 the stuff and double the money
3) Start somewhere comfortable to get your mojo going. If you are from the USA, start in Australia, NZ, or the EU, instead of sub saharan Africa (Do go though). You will build confidence and better habits building up to places that are more shocking to you culturally
4) When/if you are saving to go, get down and dirty and cut, cut, cut non-necessities. $5 bucks a day for your skinny latte can go a lot farther in places around the globe.
5) Take one of BootsnAll’s Long-Term Travel Courses. These 30 days of free emails, were built to get more people on the road, because I believe that is the best thing for humanity. We do link to some of our products throughout, but we also link to many more products/services that we don’t have an interest in. We build this to get you on the road…it’s free, use it and give us feednack after so we can continue to make it better. It will be worth your time.
QUESTION:
What are your top 5 travel tips you’d like a new traveler to know before going abroad
Even if you haven’t been on a RTW trip, we bet you’ve traveled some. To family for holidays, camping with friends, or exploring your hometown by bike. Tell us 5 things you’ve learned during your travel experiences.