this guy probably doesn’t know what he’s talking about but you can, in fact, travel without money. just not very far, very fast, or to a guaranteed location. i hitchhiked all around europe during my studies on semester breaks when i had lot of time and no money… i slept under bridges in a cheap sleeping bag or under a tarp on an alpine meadows and ate the cheapest grocery store items that didn’t need cooking. i typically spent less while traveling than i would have spent if i stayed home (especially if i didn’t need to pay rent during the summer).
grocery store items
And this works without money … how? Let me guess, your charm?
Courage.
Stealth
The courage comes from having enough money to solve any known or unknown problem situations.
Maybe he meant you need the courage to stowaway on your preferred mode of transport.
e.g. the YouTuber gifgas travels by stowawaying on freight trains
or maybe you need the “courage” to rob a bank to get the money to pay for the travel expenses 😅
or you can’t travel because of martial law
You can still travel, you just won’t get far and might die. Courage!
well, it’s a bit more complicated than that but yeah
I mean obviously travelling fast is costing money.
But walking is free. Except for food.
Amd you could hire on a ship to work. It will take a few months until you get where you want to be. But you earn money while doing it.
ITT: but first class tickets and 5 star hotels cost money!!!
Basically no one understands the message.
Economy tickets and hostels also cost money.
Walking, biking and couchsurfing is free. In most countries camping is free too.
Biking is not free.
Couchsurfing is free? No, it comes with the cost of having people who trust you enough to let you in their houses.
What is the message?
You can travel by hitchhiking (free), walking (free), cycling (one bike costs) or even by volunteering on a ship (you might even earn money). You can sleep in a tent or couchsurfing or on said ship.
Everybody immediately goes to restaurants, transcontinental flights and hotels, of course you need money for that, but that’s exactly not the point.
No no no, it’s the courage to leave without caring about loosing all your worldly possessions 🙃
My worldly possessions are lots of debt
How lucky, you’d have it wherever you go!
Poor sod seems to lack the courage to sneak into a cargo hold
A nomadic life can be cheaper than a sedentary one.
What do you do, exactly, to earn money for food/clothes in that lifestyle? That has always puzzled me
Whatever you want to do. Go spend a season helping out ona farm in Hawaii, then go help build an ecovillage in Australia, then spend some time walking around New Zealand washing dishes and bussing tables, then off to India where you’ll build rope bridges and tree houses for a sustainable community. After that, you can go to Thailand or Vietnam and teach English for a little while, before making your way into the Mediterranean and spending a year and a half on the island of Bozcaada helping an old man repair out building and herd goats.
That’s literally what my friend did for over 5 years after one day he just decided to leave and had just enough money for a plane ticket to Hawaii from San Diego. Everything else was work and accommodations he found along the way. The only reason he came back was because of covid, and now he’s an RN and makes a bunch of money and he hates his life and is in and out of rehab.
Try doing that with a passport and the typical access to Education from, say Burkina Faso.
Moving the goalposts. We can assume from context that they are speaking to an audience from developed nations.
Eto wi’de noon e ɗemngal laawɗungal leydi Burkinaa.
But since the rest of the thread is in English, I hope you’ll forgive me for thinking of this in the context of predominantly English-speaking countries.
Well, the reason why I also included “typical access to Education” is that if for those from countries whose main language isn’t the most often spoken second language in the World, the most common way to learn it is at school.
Yeah aside from money, a lot of people forget about passport privilege.
The general issue with this is the amount of people who can do this, is literally one in a million basically. And I mean that in that if too many people tried to do it. It would quickly become unfeesable due to lack of opportunities. Not will or skill or even money
This is a great example of the expection to the rule.
I cant get people to pay me enough to live here, how can i rely on charity/people willing to pay me elsewhere? Literally i have no issue working, I just want to make enough money to survive
Literally just apply to teach English in Asia. Typically the wage is a solid middle class income, and you don’t need to know anything about teaching or English.
You can also look into WWOOFing if you want to explore that.
A lot have taken up being digital nomads. Not a bad way to make a living off you can get good Internet access somehow.
And fit into a little RV.
The internet is in the very air that we breath
breathe*
breath is “taking a breath” or “out of breath”, ends without an e sound (obviously).
People that wander for a living usually live by a combination of charity and payments for odd jobs. For example, a small farmer might gladly part with some old clothes and provide a few meals and a bed in exchange for help with some tasks, and I’ve heard about people with a preternatural ability to couchsurf from city to city.
In the USA all we have to do is tell ICE that we are not a citizen and bam, all-expenses-paid vacation at some random spot in the world.
Tip to the wise: to facilitate re-entry when you are done, simply ensure that your passport is stored securely in your <ahem> “travel wallet”.
One of the greatest propaganda pieces, that is usually not perceived as such intentionally, is that anything having to do with penalties from justice systems is free. Penal justice usually do have statutes of free services, judge time and free legal counseling, but most other tribunals and also a lot of the penalties involved incur financial costs and debt into the convicted. House arrest, you either pay for the ankle tracker or a fine for the officer’s hourly pay; mandatory anger management, mental health counseling, etc, you are footing the bill; civil damages, win or lose, attorney times have to be paid; deportation, the receiving country is billed for the plane ticket, room and food during travel, which usually they pass down to you; in the US, convicts have to work in order to access anything that is not basic care (food, water and electricity), usually for slavery wages. And a long list of etceteras.
The cliché of getting yourself arrested for a misdemeanor being cheaper than paying rent and food sounds quirky fun, until the reality of fines and fees of the associated process come through. Justice systems are mostly poverty manufacturing systems.
Brave of you to assume they wouldn’t accuse you of forging the passport with some twisted logic to keep you out of the country
You wouldn’t be in jail if you weren’t a criminal right?
It’s true, if you get arrested, obviously you do crimes.
I paid in courage, and now I have a bit of courage left over to remove the headphone jack from all phones.
now I have a bit of courage left over to remove the headphone jack from all phones.
…you MONSTER …
Travel is great if that’s your thing. But I’ve always despised privileged entitled douchebags who use travel as a big flex, and a metric to judge others with.
I’m incredibly lucky to have parents whose jobs took us out of the USA. It’s one of the things that made up for living in awful places like Louisiana and Arkansas. We weren’t wealthy at all, and had to live with relatives at multiple points, but seeing how people in Europe and Asia lived opened my eyes.
Technically you can travel all your remaining life without money.
Have the courage to pay in other ways.
NOT MY MR.BEAN COLLECTION!?
My wife got rid of my Mr. Bean VHS collection
That is a tragedy.
Gas, grass, or ass. Nobody rides for free.
With beans?
We’re poor, not stupid. Beans are far too valuable.
Yeah I traded a whole cow for three beans!
Why not both
