How I saved $15,000 in 15 months on a $29k Salary

You don’t have to make a ton of money to save for long-term travel.

“Don’t wait around. Don’t get old and make excuses. Save a couple thousand dollars… get a world atlas. Start looking at every page and tell yourself that you can go there…Are there sacrifices to be made? Of course? Is it worth it? Absolutely. The only way you’ll find out is to get on the plane and go.”
-Jason Gaspero in Vagabonding

One of the biggest mistakes would-be travelers make is assuming that long-term travel requires a great deal of money, and that you’ll never be able to save enough to afford it. This is the ‘deferred life-plan’ concept in a nutshell:  I won’t have enough money to travel until later in life when I retire, or maybe when I win the lottery, or sell a company for $10 million.

This is a bogus framework. You don’t need a lot of money to travel, and as a result you can save enough very quickly.

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