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Traveling Richly is Better than Traveling like a Hobo
08-07-2009, 04:41 PM
Guys,
GManifesto was recently made fun of in a recent thread for traveling richly:
"GManifesto is the worlds biggest baller and player and 3.5K is nothing"
There's a common theme on this forum that traveling poorly is a good thing. $10 a night hostels and the such. Common now, lets be honest with ourselves, traveling richly is so much nicer.
Now let me just say that I have a lot of respect for those that travel for 6 months on a $3k budget. They are living the dream. A dream that most high paid individuals only dream of, because they don't have the time.
But lets not get caught up in this "poor man's" mentality that plagues this forum, and backpackers in general. As men we should all be aspiring to live like GManifesto. Why the hell not!
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08-07-2009, 06:11 PM
You don't go to a dive bar and order Dom Perignon.
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08-07-2009, 08:41 PM
of course traveling richly is more fun then staying at a hostel and sharing a room w/8 random people. no arguments here. i just have the sneaky feeling G manifesto isnt who he advertises. people that shoot off their mouth that much are either full of shit or major douchebags. w/him its a coin flip but i'm guessing the former not the latter
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08-09-2009, 02:10 PM
I've done both. Last time i did the hostel route to see as many places as possible. This time I rented a room in a nice part of town. Both have their pros/cons, but i have many more stories from the cheap route.
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Traveling Richly is Better than Traveling like a Hobo
08-09-2009, 06:43 PM
I have money to travel via flying and hotels, but by far my most memorable experiences were when I took buses and stayed in hostels.
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Traveling Richly is Better than Traveling like a Hobo
08-09-2009, 07:12 PM
I don't think anyone, given the option, would choose to travel on a small budget as opposed to a large budget. You play the hand you're dealt; if you've only got $2000 and want to make a vacation out of it, you've got to stay at hostels and cook all of your own meals. The way I see it, the option to travel in opulence -- staying in lux hotels and eating at world-renowned restaurants -- will always be there. But I can only travel like a vagrant, enjoying all of the accompanying experiences, as a young man.
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08-11-2009, 09:20 AM
It's no great discovery that being rich is better than being poor.
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08-11-2009, 02:28 PM
Everybody has their own threshold of comfort level when traveling. Some people simply cannot travel anywhere without staying in a "nice" hotel. So everyone has to do whatever their comfort level is. I've stayed in posh accommodations and I've slept in hostels so nasty I literally didn't want to touch anything and was afraid to turn out the lights for fear of roaches. Like the others I can say my most interesting times came from budget travel, if for any reason because you meet people, and the type of people willing to throw on a backpack and fly off to some country alone by themselves are usually some of the more cool and interesting people to talk to.
I'll tell you one thing, when I got sick for a few days in Thailand(don't know what it was but the symptoms felt like Japanese encephalitis), I was never felt so glad to be staying in a luxury hotel. I imagine being sick in a hostel bed with people constantly opening and closing the door, turning lights on and off, and talking and no privacy to be pure hell.
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08-12-2009, 10:55 AM
This topic is dumb. You do what's within your means plain and simple. To ridicule someone for traveling richly or poorly is stupid.
To Partytime: Do you even fuc*ing travel? If not then stfu because you have nothing to contribute.
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08-12-2009, 11:49 PM
the best advice i can give is this: if you are going to be in one place longer then a week try and rent an apartment. its cheaper then a hotel and will give you the feel of living like a local. secondly, if you are going to be city hopping dont preplan everything months in advance, especially if you arent flying. see whats open and available. stay in a hostel if you're going to be somewhere for a day and only gonna sleep there. if you need a day or two to chill or feel run down go upscale and stay at a nice hotel. take it as it comes, dont try and preplan it or micromanage your trip.
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08-14-2009, 11:10 AM
It's a memoir about my adventure through south america. Coming out in a month.