Ever since I was little I always loved nature and traveling(even though I always loved to return home after a trip), and I have longer still been fascinated by history, culture, and all types of peoples. I often daydream about traveling to another place or time, and meeting folk from other lands and time periods, wondering what life was or is like for them.
Could there be a little boy in Cambodia being taught to fish for the first time by his father? What happened in this old home in the 1800's when it was built? What could objects tell us about the people they have 'seen' if they could talk and remember? So many unanswered questions about the past and present that are so exciting to ponder!
My husband Kyle share the same ambition, to travel. We have been going to college for the past few years, planning out our careers and dreaming about faraway places... We always thought it'd be years before we would have enough money to travel, and even then we wouldn't get to spend much time seeing the places we wanted to see. Turns out we just had the wrong mindset! Recently I came across some videos and blogs that gave me an amazing idea, backpacking across the world!
Backpacking around the world is a perfect way for us to get to see all the places we want to see, and on a budget! If one sticks to the cheaper things, and goes were the locals go, they can easily live comfortably on 15-30 dollars a day! Depending on where you go, of course, it can get a bit more expensive. From what I've seen and researched, the USA is one of the more expensive places in the world to live, so why shouldn't we live cheap and have fun elsewhere? For a while at least.
How would we pay for it you ask? We will save up until the time comes! We also are planning on doing odd or Internet jobs abroad, which will hopefully help us make enough to keep traveling. We aren't planning on being abroad for more than a year, but you never know, we may fall in love with somewhere! Another question is, where will we stay when hotels and such are so expensive? The answer, hostels, or couchsurfing.
Couchsurfing is what it sounds like, it's a web site that allows people to find others who will let you sleep on their couch for free!(Don't worry, they do a background check) Hostels are places where one can stay for little or no money while visiting a city. This is a Hostel
Our intent is to go on this trip once we graduate college, and we will most likely sell all our stuff for the trip so we wont have to worry about storage fees, etc. Pretty much the only things we will own is what we can fit into our pack, and in our pockets! It will be so wonderful to live non-materialistic lives and only worry about each other and where we are going to next!
More to come about this subject later!
