How to Travel the World - 3 Key Tips
There are three main points. First, make travel an investment. Second, vacation and travel are different. Third, set yourself up for the next journey. I wish someone had shared this advice with me when I was a bit younger, and capable of taking full advantage of it.
#1 - Make travel an investment
There are many ways to invest in travel and doing so will not only help you travel more but will improve your career and interests as well. Take for example the working holiday visa program. You can use it as a tool to get yourself into countries with the opportunity to work. If you work within a field you are knowledgeable in, you can get meaningful foreign experience very easy. Now take one working holiday visa experience and link it to another, and you have found a way to grow your career experience and pay for world travel at the same time. You can also get a traditional work visa, but this is time consuming, cost a lot, and pins you down in one location for many years. None the less, traditional work visa is still an option. Student visas are a straight forward way to make travel an investment. You are traveling and getting educated at the same time, not to mention that student visas can be followed by a work visa or working-holiday visas to extend the journey. There are also some more simple ways to invest, such as learning a foreign language while traveling. I did this with Rosetta Stone (French) while I was in Australia. Now I’m living in Switzerland completing that investment and putting the work to good use. If you like martial arts or dance, take courses in the country you are visiting, and get a diverse way of looking at things. Here is more information about the working holiday visa:
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#2 – Vacation and travel are different.
I love vacations, but travel has made a truly meaningful impact on my life. When you are on vacation, you tend to hang out with your friends at the hotel and spend way beyond your normal spending habits for a week or two. Although this can be a fun time, it doesn’t force you to meet locals, live like a normal citizen of that country, and figure out the corks that make the society tick. Here are a few ways to travel and not vacation: join the Peace Corps, get a work visa, hike the Appalachian Trail or Pacific Crest Trail, backpack Europe or Asia, study abroad, get a working-holiday visa, or teach English abroad.
#3 – Set yourself up for the next journey.
It is so important to not be traveling blindly into the future. Although nothing in travel is certain, and you need to be able to go with the flow, change when needed, planning the next step is critical to maintaining your finances, growing yourself, and continuing the journey without big costly gaps. I once hiked the Appalachian Trail (the whole thing, 5-6 months), and when I was done, I had no plan, had over spend, and ended up back in my home town working to get ahead again. Applications for things like the Peace Corps, study abroad, work visa, and more, can take a long time (sometimes more than a year). So, it is critical to have these applications submitted ahead of time. For example, lets say you are going to go work in hospitality on a working-holiday visa in Australia, when you completed your journey, instead of flying all the way home, take a short trip to Asia for a month break, then head to New Zealand for a working-holiday visa there. Perhaps after that, you want to get a degree in hospitality, and while you’re in New Zealand for a year, that application can get approved, so you are ready for the next step.
I hope you see how these trips are all linked and using them can allow you to pay for a journey around the world while at the same time growing yourself and your career. If you have any more trips or questions about anything specific, please leave a comment. As always, please give us a like and subscribe if you haven’t already.
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