更新： 02/03/20 | 2020年2月3日（最初发布于2012年6月20日。已更新链接和内容）
还记得上个月我写杰西卡（Jessica）以及她永远不会去爱尔兰的故事吗？
没有？
那’s ok. 在这里了解她和then come back.
OK, now that 您’re back, I’d like 您 to meet someone similar to her.
我们称他为“鲍勃”。
They’re different people, but they’re two sides of the same coin. Whereas Jessica won’t travel because she is held back by the travel industry’s marketing, 鲍勃 is our resident travel naysayer and held back by his own cynicism.
鲍勃 (I’ve changed his name — both here and in his 要么 iginal comment) came to my attention when he responded to my blog post about 我如何赚钱和负担得起旅行。他写了：
我喜欢这个– “Anyone 能够 do it”…然后我们发现他能够在第一次旅行之前节省20,000美元。我们大多数人在还房租的同时还清学生贷款。看到了，伙计们？总是有更多的东西–以前的高薪工作或与父母住在一起可以省下来，父母送来的金钱礼物，在国外教英语，被解雇或解雇，在正确的时间，正确的地方去旅行& got hospitality job 要么 teaching 要么 gardening job. It’s all very individual. 那里 is no formula that’s why no one comes out and says. They want 您 to buy something. This site doesn’t seem that big/popular enough to generate enough money to fly 25 times/year. 我的 niece has a bigger blog than this. [马特的评论：哎呀！]
Like I said, everyone wants to seem lucky. 那里’s always more to it than anyone will let on. I’ve been to 20 countries, but that’s because I’ve had rich friends/lovers & affluent parents. I once had a job that took me places, too. See? I said it. 那’s honest. No expensive books w/some 秘密. I’m not 尝试ing to sound lucky 要么 like I know something because I’m not selling anything.
I don’t know 鲍勃 personally. He’s probably a nice guy, and I’m not here to pick on him; I simply want to discuss his line of thinking because 我认为它 is shared by 远 too many. People like 鲍勃 assume that someone must first have some sort of helping hand, that saving money in 要么 der to travel 能够’t be as simple as I make it seem — and that I, and others like me, are just here to make a quick buck by selling a pipe dream!
Why 鲍勃 is a Nice Guy But Completely Wrong
Jessica will never go to Ireland — not because she doesn’t think she 能够, but because she will never 打破 out of the mold the travel industry puts her in. On the other hand, folks like 鲍勃 might travel 远 and wide but will never believe it is possible to do so without a lot of money. I call this the Sarah Palin Syndrome, which I’ve defined as:
“一直以来的信念是，只有那些有能力，有帮助的父母或上流社会的人才能负担得起任何持续时间的旅行努力，因为普通人的账单，贷款，债务或旅行义务太多。”
我之所以这样命名是因为在竞选美国副总统时，萨拉·佩林说：
“I’m not one of those who came from a background of, 您 know, kids who perhaps graduate college and their parents give them a passport and give them a backpack and go off and travel the world. No, I’ve worked all my life. In fact, I usually had two jobs all my life until I had kids. I was not a part of that culture.”
This is a pessimistic mentality. It is one that blames the outside world for 您r ills and then creates a “no” mentality so 您 never 尝试 找到旅行的方式。
鲍勃 assumed that I could only afford my 要么 iginal trip with the help of my parents. This goes to the heart of Sarah Palin Syndrome: the assumption that 您 need a lot of money (either through a good job 要么 helpful parents) to get going and that if 您 don’t start out with a fair amount of savings, 您 能够’t travel. In his follow up 电子邮件, 鲍勃 told me:
I’我住在南端。在波士顿这样的城市中，30,000美元的薪水，尤其是没有学校贷款的情况，’在三年内节省了20,000美元。那数学不’t exist, mate…unless 您’与父母同住。
但是，正如我之前指出的， 能够 用那种薪水工作。我几个月前写了一份清单 一个可以大幅度削减开支的20种方法. These are the exact 20 tips I used before I went traveling. It becomes pretty easy to save 33% of 您r salary when 您 are fully committed to 您r goal. (And, in the name of transparency, for the last 6 months I was home, I did live with my parents.)
I think folks like 鲍勃 don’t think that it’s possible to save money in such a hyper-consumption world. But it is. Because when 您 stop buying crap, 您r bank account goes WAY up. When 您 能够cel 您r subscription services, the bills they generate disappear. I lived like a pauper and made my salary work. And I have always said that I lived with my parents for the last six months before my first trip.
I’我不是唯一的一个。这里’只是我的一小部分人’在本网站上进行过采访的ve做了以下事情：
您 don’需要高薪工作来省钱旅行。 您 just need the right focus and money management skills. 您r bank balance isn’一夜之间不会翻倍。它没有’不必。踏实和稳重是赢得比赛的关键。
Second, 鲍勃 assumes that 您 能够’t do this while carrying outstanding debt. I am simply going to show 您 my student loan balance, which I have been paying off ever since I left my MBA program six years ago. Take a look at how much I still owe:
旅行ing with debt is possible if 您 are smart about 您r money. 在我离开之前，我一定要支付我的费用，并把钱放在一边以支付我的贷款。
But 鲍勃’s main thrust in his argument was this: I’m selling a lie. 鲍勃 电子邮件ed me the following after he posted his comment:
嘿，马特– This is a response to 您r 关于 Me page. Why doesn’t anyone every just say how they do it? Those backpackers in Thailand told 您 how. Why 能够’t 您 just share what they shared for free? 前夕ryone wants to keep it some mystery 要么 say, “Just decide to,”普通人可以完全了解’只是离开然后离开’t know how. Do 您 just save enough for a cheap flight, then, once 您 arrive hustle, camp, hostel, look for jobs as a gardener, network? Is that it? Once the bit 您’ve saved is gone, how do 您 generate enough to continue to eat and live? No matter how cheap it is, 您 have to do something to generate money for food and hostels and trains and planes. What is it that folks do? Did I guess it right? Teach English, hustle, take odd jobs, garden, tutor? Can 您 just be 真实, honest and upfront? 那’不仅仅是说出来，还有很多帮助，“Look what 我可以 do”.
In responding to my experience with those backpackers in Thailand, 鲍勃 demonstrated that he had looked around my site but clearly only saw what he wanted to see, because I’ve answered 他所有的问题 在以前的帖子中和have always been upfront about 该网站的实用性.
但后来他想通了：
那里’s no 秘密 要么 book needed. All anyone has to say/do is exactly what I communicated very briefly. All 您 need is $2,000 for an initial trip and week stay to make connections. It will get cheaper from there. Once 您 take a trip, go for a teaching job 要么 hospitality, hustle, network. 的more 您 do, the more things unfold. 那’s the 秘密 to most things. Just start. Figure the rest out as 您 go.
鲍勃 I agree. 那里 is no 秘密 to travel. It’s exactly about what 您 just said. Save up some money. Just make the leap. Here are all the times I’ve made that point myself:
- Why 那里 is Never a Perfect Time to 旅行
- How to Overcome 您r 旅行 Fears
- 大家都说我’m Running Away
- 那里 is No Secret to Long-Term 旅行
如何与犬儒主义者打交道
的world is full of cynics. 的world is full of people who want to get 您 down. Anyone who has lived for more than five minutes knows that. Folks like 鲍勃 simply believe that it’s impossible to do what I do without some sort of helping hand. They sneer at the thought that travel could be easy 要么 affordable to all. pssh， 他们说， 您 must have a trust fund. 您 aren’t telling the whole truth.
鲍勃 isn’t as 远 off as others because he knows what I have long said — there is no 秘密 to travel. 您 just go do it! 您 need to make the leap. But he is wrong that in 要么 der to make that leap, 您 must be well off in advance. Hard work and dedication 能够 get 您 where 您 need to go. I worked my butt off to so I could go travel. 我教英语为我的银行帐户充值.
But cynics only see and hear what they want. I told 鲍勃 that I had loans, that the math worked out, that I wasn’t selling him an unrealistic dream, linked to all the 文章s I’ve written to share my experiences, and talked more about my past.
But I never heard back from 鲍勃
Sarah Palin Syndrome doesn’t let 您 see the truth; it only seeks to reinforce 您r beliefs. Once 鲍勃 knew my story (a story I never hide but that he didn’t take the time to learn), he went away. Cynics like to be cynics.
鲍勃 is right — there is no 秘密 to travel. 您 just need to take the leap. I’m not selling any larger dream than that. All I am doing is pushing 您 out the door and then telling 您 how to save money when 您 get outside.
那里 are bound to be 鲍勃斯 in 您r life. People will dismiss 您r goals, accomplishments, and dreams. They will 尝试 to give 您 a sense of 真实ity and tell 您 “the whole story.”
I believe people like 鲍勃 能够’t dream the impossible. Where 鲍勃 and people like him go wrong is that they believe that only those individuals who hustle 要么 have outside help 能够 go live their dream. But 您r average person? They 能够’t do it.
他们是完全错误的。
旅行 is possible, even with a job paying $30,000 USD per year in a major city like Boston. 的鲍勃斯 of the world will never believe that, though, because if they did, then they would have to accept that anything would be possible.
然后他们就不会悲惨和愤世嫉俗。
But I like the 鲍勃斯 of the world because 我可以 go out and prove them wrong. And, hopefully, 我可以 inspire many of 您 to do the same by crushing the myth that travel is expensive 要么 unattainable.
And then we 能够 all say to 鲍勃: “I know 您’re wrong. I won’t let 您 get me down. I’ll only let 您 inspire me to do better.”
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游牧民族
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我一年要和父母呆一两个星期，除了这份工作，别无其他！
马克·希亚
I’我不是旅游博客作者，我制作视频，但是最近我采访了旅游博客作者，我发现他没有做有趣的事情。’集中了adsense，但组织了自己的广告交易。
If 您 are not making 您r money from ads on this site 马特 where is 您r income source coming from? e-book sales?
我可以 understand why 鲍勃 would be cynical. 前夕ryone writes their own copy online and I think a lot of travel bloggers are not 真实ly truly nomadic, but just pretending to be successful in 要么 der to sell stuff.
我发现像nerdy nomad这样的网站很棒，因为她每个月都会列出她的支出和收入。
从外部看旅游博客，我想知道成功是否更多地基于对SEO的了解而不是真正的真正受众。总是让我感到惊讶的是，其他旅行博客对旅行博客发表了多少评论。
就像我说的’我不是旅游博客，我不’t understand how it all works, and I may sound cynical like 鲍勃 But I have been on the road for near a year, making money solely from my travel videos, so I know it 能够 be done.
艾米莉
大约5个月前，我取得了飞跃式发展（甚至通过您的书也成了博客！），贷款比您还要大，而口袋里有10笔巨款，这要归功于一年出售我所拥有的一切–包括把我的车换成我的父亲’s bicycle! –像街头顽童一样生活在非洲和亚洲度过了自己的辛苦赚来的钱之后，我打到Oz的钱还不多–但是在忙碌的一周内，由于互联网的欢乐，我找到了一份工作，这将使我明年回家的钱几乎等于剩下的钱。–所以我就回去继续旅行-我度过了自己的美好时光，这一切都始于瞬间的决定– it’一旦您到达那里，就很容易’s不是您找到一种使其工作的方法。一世’我目前正在写这篇文章，一边看着我在大堡礁上的活船上的日落！哦，不是我父母的一分钱– I’我是个卑鄙的老师！好帖子x
颂歌
我爱这个马特。疯了，我本周也受到类似评论的打击…and I haven’t even written a book yet! Thanks for being so open and for calling out the naysayers and 打破ing down their pessimist opinions. How we get there is not as important as wanting it and then purposely working towards 您r goals. Live on my brother – do 您.
艾琳
Thanks 马特for another great 文章!
I’ve met many ‘Bobs’我自己问我该怎么做。一世’我曾主动出差到欧洲，东南亚和韩国，同时还支付了大学费用（我也有贷款）。我选择和父母住在一起，而不是一直花钱买名牌衣服，乘公交车，打包午餐（好吧，大部分时间），但是旅行是值得的！我的父母从来没有为我的旅行做任何贡献。
Teach English, work in a hostel, 要么 work 您r butt off at home and SAVE. Budget WHILE traveling. 您 don’t need 5 要么 even 3 star hotels, cabs everywhere, and expensive restaurants. Couchsurf, hostel, 要么 stay with friends 您 make while traveling!
It comes down to priorities. If 您r priority is to travel, 您 will make it happen. 您 WILL save the money. 您 don’不需要教练包，高档餐厅，汽车或每个周末在酒吧。为这些事情付出的高昂代价很快就会消失。
的high 您 get from travel, the experiences 您 have and friends 您 make from all over the world? 那 never wears off!
米娅
完全同意。一世’我进行了2次长期旅行，这些旅行完全由我自己承担。第一个是6个月，第二个是4个月，中间为18个月。在他们每个人之前，我都做过两份兼职工作，并尽可能地减少了我的日常开支。所有这些都在上大学并住在合租屋中。旅行是我的首要任务，所以我做到了。如果我想买一件新东西，我总是会停下来考虑是否要买东西超过几天。通常，额外的旅行天会赢。它’关于优先级的所有内容。
新德里
Totally agree..What 您 said is true for anything in life.. When 您r mind is set on some goal, 您 just take the leap and chase 您r goal. Nothing is impossible. I racked up $6000 of credit card debt while taking my first trip (and buying a DSLR before that) All cynics told me it was stupid! Why go into debt to travel! I said I wanted to, time is more previous that money. I applied for a 0% APR card to put the debt on. 我的 pre-tax salary was $19000. Yet I paid off my debt in 1 year. If 您 think 您 能够, 您 能够.
阿里安
好吧，马特。自从回到国外生活了2年，然后背包旅行了8个月之后，我’我已经敏锐地意识到“you’re so lucky 您 got to do that” and “this is the only time in 您r life 您’能够做这样的事情”评论。人们不’t understand how easy it is to get out and travel and live those dreams. 的greatest hurdle for anyone is making the decision to go and do it. Once 您’ve set 您r mind to it, 您’ll do whatever 您 need to do to make it happen. And 真实ly that’那些旅行的人和那些不旅行的人之间的区别’t，我们找到了一种方法，即使没有’不知道从哪里开始。它’s a constant learning process and we figure it out as we go. But believing 您 能够 do it is the biggest challenge for most people, and 您 (and the travel blogging community) are here to show it’完全有可能。干杯!
Kiersten
Nicely written Matt! Since starting my own blog there have been countless 鲍勃斯 in my life. I know first hand how inexpensive travel 能够 be and 您’re totally right. So suck it 鲍勃! Followed by a hug for 鲍勃 because he makes the journey so much sweeter 😉
艾玛
嗨，马特，
This is a great post. I commented on the Jessica post too about how I felt that Jessica was possibly not 尝试ing to travel because of a lack of desire, etc. I appreciate how 您 responded to my question back then, clarifying that the travel industry pigeon-holes people, and to the issue of 鲍勃 Thx for this one.
艾玛
史考特
Well said Matt. It 真实ly comes down to how much 您r willing to sacrifice to make 您r dreams happen. We saved for 2 1/2 years before our trip and paid off bills for another year after and it was the best decision we could have made. It tough to say no to going out to dinner with friends. Or saying no to buying coffee at a coffee shop. Or not buying new clothes. Or not going out to see movies. Or not buying a beer at the pub. Or one of the million things we all waste our money on. But if each time 您 think “I’我不会花15美元在这部破烂的好莱坞电影上，因为这在泰国住了1晚” it makes it easier.
If 您 want to make 您r dreams a 真实ity, 您 have to put the effort in. It’s not easy, it may get side tracked, but if 您 keep focused on it long enough it’ll happen if 您 believe 您 能够 do it. But if 您 think 您’ll fail, 您 always will. We have the ability in the west to create our own 真实ity.
荣誉马特
特里
嘿，马特。谢谢你我以某种方式与人们进行斗争。我认为您已经捕获了它。它’表示有意将旅行纳入生活的一部分。我有一个小博客，写关于旅行的信息’我在拉丁美洲和东南亚逗留了六个月，但我和丈夫仍在寻找出行的方式。虽然我们财务状况良好，但我的大部分旅行都发生在遇见他之前，我们合并了财务。我确实知道人们认为’昂贵，并且担心账单和学生贷款。我的贷款比您多，但是如果您仍然可以旅行，’愿意牺牲。一世’d宁愿听到有人花了1或2年为某个地方（任何地方）旅行而存钱，而不是根本不去，因为他们认为那不是’对他们来说是一种可能性。我只是希望人们不要’认为旅行必须意味着辞职并无限期旅行（我不得不承认这是我对许多旅行博客的不满）。我不’不在乎人们旅行的时间和时间。我只希望他们走到那里，看看世界。
劳拉
“Because when 您 stop buying crap, 您r bank account goes WAY up. I lived like a pauper and made my salary work” –这两行是任何人都能负担得起的旅行所需的知识。它’这不是火箭科学，也不是涉及父母资助的狡猾花招！
“然后我们发现他能够在第一次旅行之前节省20,000美元” – I love how he seems surprised that the big 秘密 to this long term travel malarky is saving up for it in advance of setting off.
我认为像鲍勃（Bob）这样的人与世隔绝的是博客作者’t每天发布关于他们做出的储蓄决定（6月19日：我没有’t buy that new sweater I liked, 20 June: I moved in with my parents to save on rent etc) and because they feel so stuck in their own financial situation 和can’t see a way to alter their own finances (despite posts detailing this) they assume 您 have to be pulling one over on them.
Sounds like 鲍勃 would feel better if 您 complained about how tough it was to 缩减 on spending in 要么 der to afford 您r first trip. He could believe it then. Except 您 were probably happy to make all those 缩减s because the promise of travel was worth it. 那里’不能取悦某些人！
前夕
的秘密 “Bob” is looking for is this: Decide on the life 您 want, and then become the person who lives that life. Most people don’t even get as 远 as figuring out the first part. Of those who do, only a handful have the stomach for the second. Living 您r dream life almost always requires major sacrifices, and that is the 秘密 nobody ever wants to hear.
阿娃·阿波罗（Ava Apollo）
的fear is by 远 the hardest thing to get over. It’s just a weird, unnamed fear with no rationality behind it (or maybe too much rationality?) Glad 鲍勃 finally saw the light.
克里斯蒂娜·M
哈哈。他很愤世嫉俗，因为他很嫉妒别人发现了这个错误，’他！有些人心胸狭窄。这让我想起了我的父亲– “Oh it’现在去欧洲真是太糟糕了，美元是如此疲软！” Who cares?! 那里 will always be an excuse.
游牧民族
那里 is always an excuse!
科琳
AWE-SOME 文章, Matt. 您’再说一遍。
这个世界上有两种人。了解个人责任的人’在。他们知道，如果他们愿意为某个目标而努力，是的，为此而牺牲就可以实现。我有一个16岁和一个19岁的人’他们完成了大学的头三年。这位19岁的男孩上个月参加了他的第一次马拉松比赛，而两人（很久以前）都达到了各自球探组织的最高水平，所以我知道我’m talking about.
另一类人实际上是害怕自己的梦想和欲望。他’卖空了自己，过着绝望的生活，害怕他真的会’从生活中得到他想要的东西。他将自己的情况归咎于他人，并告诉自己，“It’s the way it is.”没有比遇到一个快乐，热情和真实的人更令人讨厌。其他民族’成功和幸福对他来说就像是对自己不愿意付出代价，牺牲，努力工作以及在任何地方争夺金币的起诉。遇到成功的人会暴露出自己的错误‘religion’他选择受害人，无助，需要和其他自命不凡的思维方式，而不是仅仅为自己奋斗而奋斗。
People actually have way more personal power to exert a lot more control over their lives than many will admit (to themselves.) 马特 您’ve succeeded by exerting a lot of positive will in 您r circumstances towards building the wonderful life 您 have. 您 are an example for all. Thank 您 for generously sharing 您r hard-won wisdom with the world.
This site has given me many hours of inspiration, enjoyment and dreams for further travel. Thank 您.
旅行 on, Matt. Godspeed.
金罗
好吧，马特。不要误会我是31岁’自从我登陆您这样的网站以来，我才真正相信自己可以做到。像很多人一样’我一直想去旅行，但觉得那是不可能的。从我16岁起，我就背着一笔巨额贷款，上面有2张信用卡。我是一名全职管理员“all right”工资和彼此共享一个租住的公寓。我11月第一次独自去东南亚度假（很害怕），度过了最美的时光，结识了很多朋友，这才是我决定的时候。“I CAN TRAVEL”。阅读您的建议等并开始计划。今年9月，我将有生以来第一次没有债务。如果我坚持到2014年努力储蓄，我应该可以节省近10,000英镑（借助工作中的一些奖金）。唐’别误会我可能会沮丧，因为几乎没有花任何钱，而我仍然有几年的时间–我多么希望度过美好的时光，但我有很多朋友和家人说“所有这些辛苦/令人沮丧的工作都非常值得，但是只要想一想您所有令人惊叹的地方和经历’t going to get here.” xx
科琳
Kim, 您 能够 do it! = ) 您 will be so excited when 您 are debt free. It will come faster than 您 think. 我的 husband and I dug ourselves out of debt in the early years of our marriage and we have been debt-free for nearly 15 years. It’是最有趣，最自由的生活方式。
您r travels will be that much more meaningful to 您 as a result of achieving this honorable goal.
祝好运！ =）
金罗
Awww thanks 科琳. 我可以’我自己相信。我似乎已经沉迷于减少债务。
奇怪的是，我只需要我的朋友给我看一台计算器，笔和纸上的东西，看看清算债务和节省旅行的可能性。只是在我的脑海中猜测之前’多年来不可能做到这一点。
贾莫
马特说得好，实际上所有事情都归于优先事项。去年我整整旅行，现在回到伦敦定居，但是我知道’ll go again 😉 But it’当我有很多人说他们没有天堂时，我感到很奇怪’甚至没有考虑过要花一年的时间，而他们估计要花费的数字绝对是荒谬的。最后，它很便宜，而且大多数人都可以买得到。
盖林
If 您 are truly passionate and committed then follow 您r dream, as no one else 能够. More people talk and don’跟随他们，因为他们相信自己可以’t do. Fear holds some back with strong negative outside influences (like the 鲍勃斯). This goes for traveling 要么 whatever. If 您 want it bad enough there’s nothing wrong with a little sacrifice along the path to 您r desires. A choice 能够 be made at any age to please 您rself first.
I’m 58 and have been traveling in the US for 35+ years on a seasonal income, as a Park Ranger for the last 20, and with student loans larger and older than 您rs. Two years ago I finally followed my dream stepping off this continent to South 非洲 and without extravagance afforded a month of adventure. Currently planning winter 2014 in Costa Rica, and maybe beyond.
伟大的马特。
桃子
的“Bobs” don’真的想知道，他们只是想找借口。当我数数卡片并乘booooo前往拉斯维加斯旅行时，每个人都有一个为什么这是个坏主意的原因，他们不能’t be bothered.
我的 theory: 您 didn’t hear back from “Bob,” because once he found it was possible to save money and travel as 您 described, he had to 您-know-what 要么 get off the pot, and he decided he preferred to remain sitting. Can’t speak to the college loan issue but the biggest way for most adults to save money is not have kids. Most people will not make that choice. Fine. I respect their decision. But I feel they should have equal respect for my decision. As the man said, 您 能够 have anything but 您 能够’t have everything.
莎娜（Shayna）
很棒的帖子，也有很多很棒的评论！
我没有’开始时会节省很多钱，但是我’ve使这些数字起作用：
–在纽约市赚取33,000欧元，为前往巴西的单程票节省了1000美元。 （节省了大约2k）
–联系了城市中的每所英语学校&找到了工作。那和我的丈夫和我的自由职业导致2万–让我们进入巴西中产阶级。丈夫’s in school and I’m偿还了16K的学生贷款
– I’m建立一个开始盈利的互联网业务，并应在2013年中期之前提供足够的支持。到2014年年底丈夫毕业时，我们’将有足够的与地点无关的收入来无限期地旅行！
So there 您 have it – makin’它工作在低工资水平并且在美国以外的地方工作，却没有很多积蓄。注意-我们的公寓大约只有3个车库的大小。但它’好的B / C，空间很小，意味着我们可以’买东西填满！
伊恩·罗宾逊
三年前，我卖掉了吉普车，开始旅行。现在所有的钱都用光了，但是我一直都在赚钱。一世’我在世界各地，新西兰，南非，澳大利亚，夏威夷和我’我现在住在菲律宾；仍在移动，仍在探索新的地方。
Another note, 30k a year is heaps of money! If 您 are making 30k a year 您 have NO excuse. 您 能够 save money, sell stuff and be out the door in 6 months.
To 鲍勃 – Get a working holiday visa in 澳大利亚 and fly there. Then, WHEN 您 run out of money, 您 能够 find an even better paying job there.
您 能够 do it 鲍勃 Stop being a bitch.
克里斯蒂娜（Christina）
我有一个很长的朋友，我在德国生活时遇到了我。他是美国人，几乎没有任何资金就以背包徒步旅行的大学毕业生身份度过了一天。他爱上了欧洲，并且很容易就能在美国的军事设施中获得调酒工作。它’15年后，他’仍然在那边，现在经营自己的生意。旅行和移民到其他国家是完全可行的，这关系到每个人如何优先旅行。 --
玛丽
我认为这真的取决于人’的生活方式和处境。有些人几乎每月不能付房租，’s a 真实ity – there’预算中没有足够的空间来节省一点费用。但是那’通常是少数。事实是–大多数人可以负担得起旅行的积蓄，但实在太害怕这样做了。
德鲁·迈耶斯（Drew Meyers）
除了收到我父母在2005年第一次去欧洲所花费的4,500美元中的大约2,000美元之外，我还’ve自掏腰包资助了我所有的旅行，除了在2011年与父母同住6个月外，过去3年或多或少是全职旅行。
As 您 say, it’将旅行列为优先事项。如果他们真的愿意，任何人都可以节省足够的钱。但是，大多数人却把钱花在胡扯上。汽车，DVD，立体声音响，名牌服装等’是他们的选择。我选择将所有的钱都花在旅行上。那’s my choice.
安迪
我认为很多问题是人们从不向外看’重新舒适地带，看看是否有可能改变生活方式。如果他们环顾四周，看到所有朋友都在购买汽车，名牌服装，昂贵的电子产品，’ll think that’正常。如果他们有一份年薪$ 80,000的工作，那么他们的朋友也是如此（这应该给他们足够的钱，让他们既可以买些垃圾又可以去旅行…），他们所有的朋友都和父母一起住在家里，从未拥有过汽车，并且没有’如果买垃圾，他们可能也会这样做。
当我去纳米比亚时，我的机票价格（约1200美元）与大多数德国人的机票价格相同，使我感到惊讶。我对此感到惊讶，因为那里有很多德国人，我认为这对于他们来说一定更便宜。不，他们只是决定将更多的钱用于旅行。我刚在想“一趟$ 1200，哇’花很多钱在飞机上”他们在想的时候“1200 for one flight –差不多，而我的旅行预算只有一小部分”。当然，在美国，很多人永远不会花费1200美元去搭乘飞机’请将其花在电视上。
输入此字时我喝了太多咖啡，所以我知道’写得不好，但希望我’m saying makes sense. It all depends on what 您 value. People need to decide what they truly value, and then spend their money on that. I still have a 227lb, 36″我几年前免费获得的CRT电视。为什么？避风港’t broken, and I don’不太在意电视，可以花钱在新电视上。相反，我珍视旅行，并把钱花在那上面。
游牧民族
100％同意。说得好。
游牧民族
感谢大家分享自己的故事。我读了他们所有，他们都很棒。它’s interesting to see how 您 all made travel 您r own priority and made the math work for 您!
旅行 on!
拉奎尔
这绝对是生活中大多数事情的答案！迈出第一步，一切似乎就准备就绪！
我23岁那年开了一家服装精品店，没有父母的陪伴，似乎没人能理解我是如何做到的。我的答案一直都是一样的– just take step one and that will lead 您 to step two. But, most people like making excuses for why they 能够’比实际要做的事情要多得多，以使他们到达想要的位置。
一切皆有可能’s actually what 您 REALLY want!
很棒的帖子！
科琳
“Just take step one and that will lead 您 to step two.” 那 thought for me is distilled genius. 的truth is often very simple. I’将这个想法融入我的思想生活和行动。
Thank 您, 拉奎尔! = )
特蕾西
On the face of it 您’re being exceptionally kind to 鲍勃 He seems like a wanker!! But as he went to such trouble to keep contacting 您 and possibly even sorted it out for himself in the end, it seems like he is desperately looking for a way to do this himself!! Fingers crossed he proves 您 wrong and hits the road! Not that we’ll ever know!!
嘉莉
Thank 您 马特for a 真实ly great, thought-provoking post. I know that I have been stuck in the rut of “I 能够’直到我的学生贷款还清为止” mentality but sadly in my state of loan-ness, it is true: I have to begin paying them down first. But once the routine is established, exactly what 您 said: Make said arrangements; sell off crap; book flight; go. It’不像所有反对者所说的那样难。如果可以的话’没有让尼加拉瓜拯救我的生命。
塞缪尔·林恩·埃文斯
I managed to go on holiday for 2 weeks for 40 euros, so even if 您 did have loads of money when 您 first went out travelling, just to restate everyone else, it doesn’t mean that it wasn’t possible to have gone and done it anyway with less. Things happen when 您 leave the house, that just be the rule of the road.
劳拉
很棒的帖子。像许多其他评论员一样，我在旅途中也遇到过许多这样的愤世嫉俗的人，包括我自己大家庭的成员（我发誓有些人仍然认为在那里’我某处是一个隐藏的信托基金’我没有告诉他们！）。它’令人叹为观止的我’我不得不偏转像“能够环游世界一定很棒，” as if I too don’不必费力气去付抵押贷款！它’s all about making that conscious lifestyle choice, as 您 say–not only before a big RTW trip but also when 您 get home and decide 您 want to keep that lifestyle (or a variation of it) for good.
文
I’m not aspiring to build a career on travel, but in teaching (so my blog about life abroad sounds a little bit too much like 真实 life sometimes). So my opinion in this matter is quite different. For people who doubt what 马特is doing, yes, 您’re right. Stay home. Marry 您r high school sweetheart, make 您r car payments, and have a nice life. For people who believe in what 马特is doing, save and get a little bit of scratch together for a plane ticket. It’s not hard, 真实ly. Of course if 您 just want to travel so 您 能够 act like an idiot in other people’的国家/地区，请留在家里。当然可以’s something good in TV that 您 need to watch. I honestly don’不想为了旅行和吹牛的权利而促进旅行。它’是一种空旷的生活方式，而我’在国外遇见了太多的外国人，这些人应该呆在家里。
阿森
I had a question, if someone wanted to travel full time like 您 do, what would be the options for income apart from building a website like 您 have done and praying that it gets traffic?
校准
我认为它’s awesome what 您’ve done for 您rself and everything that 您’我有经验。没有多少人可以做到这一点，但希望他们能做到。唐’t let the haters get to 您 man.
干杯。
伊恩和温迪
I had a friend recently tell me that she figured it was going to cost us FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS for a 3 week trip we have planned to 欧洲. Needless to say that is FAR in excess of our actual budget and we travel with our 您ng kids and not as the paupers we once did. People tend to WAY overestimate how much it costs to travel and way underestimate the financial costs in staying home (power, food, gas, entertainment). And yes it’的确很多人可以’没想到“cut back”虽然他们的房屋里装满了物品，但这个世界上大多数人都可以’t even dream of. It’s all a matter of how badly 您 want to do it.
抢
的strange thing about the 鲍勃 fella is he’回答了他自己的问题。
I’我已经旅行了3年。我是通过裁员，卖汽车，在出差前还清债务（正常工作，少于3万美元），减少支出，与父母同住来实现的。那给了我大约一年的旅行工作/无后顾之忧。
我将其扩展到便宜的国家/地区，便宜地进食和睡觉，找到了几份工作（教英语，酒店接待员，激光枪修理工，园丁，传单广告），并在我的网站上接受广告和付费的访客帖子（实际上是一项业务），将我在国外发现的东西卖出去（’是较新的）。其他支出包括攻读学位，我’m doing remotely.
我不会’由于在大多数国家/地区求职，我称自己是最有创业精神的人’ve been too, rather than raise my own money. But the ability to adapt to the situation has got me this 远. 那里 isn’t any 秘密. Matt’s books aren’t 秘密s either, they just condense the information already available in a package.
汤姆
前几天，我发现此报价非常适合该主题。
“Most of us have two lives. 的life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance. If 您 find 您rself criticizing other people, 您’re probably doing it out of Resistance. When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.” -Steven Pressfield
尼科
嘿，马特！
很棒的帖子和对此评论的回应。我会根据自己的经验说，游牧并负担得起的另一种好方法就是追求可以在任何地方通过互联网进行的职业。
在过去的5个月中，我一直在中美洲旅行，并且在网上担任翻译工作，并且在位置方面没有任何问题。是的，我’我在内部工作9-5正常工作时也有5 yeras的经验，这使我具备了做我自己的技能’m doing now, but it’这几天非常可行。
Translator, writer, journalist, graphic designer, web designer, programmer, 您 name it. 那里’s plenty of jobs 您 能够 do from the road!
玛丽莲·沃德
在我以自由作家的身份旅行之前，我从一年中的积蓄中节省了10,000美元，方法是从一间公寓缩小到一间房间，然后卖掉了很多东西。我存钱很糟糕，但是我做到了。哪里有’s a will, there’s a way. Good on 您, 马特 for sticking up for the dreamers, doers and those who believe in the possibilities of life.
您 will not change 鲍勃 —他喜欢愤世嫉俗— but 您 are inspiring others.
ps这就是为什么我的博客被称为“呼吸梦想”-
芭芭拉
我只是想说，我的丈夫’s name is 鲍勃… and he doesn’完全不相信这一点。
我只需要确保人们不知道全部“Bob’s”以同样的方式思考。 --
乔
马特
Thank 您 for taking the time to formulate such a detailed response to 鲍勃’s cynicism. I don’t usually take the time to add comments on posts but had to do it on this one because 您r website (along with Chris Guillebeau’s）是我为什么 ’m currently trekking through 欧洲. Something I always wanted to do but never thought I could. 我的 friend and I have gone almost homeless just to meet someone who was mysteriously going to London for five days and offerering us his swanky apartment to stay in FOR FREE. 旅行ing is scary, meeting new people is scary but once 您 take the leap, trust 您r instincts, stick to 您r morals, 您 will be okay. Worst comes to worst, 您r hustle side will surface if 您’真的很深。
埃尔默·克鲁兹（Elmer Cruz）
好吧，我猜’s because of people’对旅行的期望。我想很多人都没有’t think it’之所以可能这样做，是因为他们的旅行想法可能是建立在传统经验和对奢侈的期望之上，或者至少是完全舒适的。它’有趣的是人们如何休假并期望拥有与家一样的舒适度或居住地。一世’我遇到了很多人抱怨语言障碍，蚊子，水，街头食品，甚至没有在酒店吹风机。这些人’s idea of traveling is being somewhere unfamiliar with all the familiar comforts that they are used to. Of course, these are available practically everywhere but 您 need to cough up the cash and if this is their mentality then for sure they will be cynical about doing it el cheapo!
得可
马特 我可以not contribute to the discussion since I started traveling when I was forty and had the money and lack of responsibilities to go where I list. 我的 only problem with what 您 have written is that in a world made unpleasant by gratuitous snarkerie 您 are indulging in what strikes as gratuitous snarkerie in naming 鲍勃’s distemper for the former Governor of Alaska, who after all did not say that all 您ng people who wandered the world were overprivileged layabouts, only that some were —这一定是真的— 和that she was not one of them.
我最喜欢旅行博客的一件事是几乎完全没有政治。在这个世界上，一切似乎与最尖锐的政治相距仅一步之遥，而本来会与之相吻合的人却被匕首所吸引，这是一个令人愉悦的世界，在我们可以讲文明的地方找到一个角落我们拥有共同利益和专业知识的其他事物。
杰西
大家好’我只是在巴厘岛，实际上这要归功于这个网站，当然还有马特！我旅行了8个月，将在一个月内回家，度过了我的生命！！！我只是停止购买愚蠢的东西，外卖，在我走路时开车，不断饮酒和当白痴！我为这次旅行节省了一年的最低工资工作，在我离开时有6000多个，这要归功于遵循消光技术的建议！也从家人那里到那里也有几百!!那’s the best advice, just decide to go!! Thanks so much matt, 您 basically made this trip possible for me and my girlfriend, any future trips will be booked through 您r site as a thankyou! Next stop Iceland 🙂
珍娜
这就是..这就是为什么我的父母不让我申请由美国政府资助的高中生全额奖学金计划的原因。这就是为什么他们不让我成为外汇留学生。他们认为没有大量金钱就不可能出国，如果我尝试解释一下，他们不会听我的。这是他们没有离开北美的唯一原因。
我可以not WAIT until I am in college and they ask me what I am planning on doing this summer. “Well, I don’t know. I’我想到要去泰国，也许要去柬埔寨一小段路。如果我不这样做’t do that, I’m going to head to Peru. Or Morocco. Oh, and did 您 know there is a scholarship to study in Azerbaijan?” Cannot. Wait.
游牧民族
向他们展示我的网站！也许他们会改变主意。
加博尔
您’对此非常正确。但是让’别忘了这没有’t apply to people of all backgrounds, 要么 to be more specific, to people from parts of the world where the average GDP per capita is a lot lower (but I 真实ize 您 were mainly directing this at 美国ns). People with low 要么 even average paying jobs from my part of the world (Eastern 欧洲, Hungary in my case) couldn’t do this – that’s why I’我会尽我所能，摆脱困境，尽快在西欧上班’跟我师傅做完了’s（距离现在2年）。
为了说明我的观点，匈牙利的平均工资是这样的（为简单起见’是因为我将它们四舍五入，所以如果我要转换实际工资，它将产生大约$ 511’ll just write $500):
最低工资：300美元
高中老师（像我妈妈一样’至今工作31年）：$ 500 USD
a “high-paying”工作（程序员，网页设计师，利基地区的工程师等）：$ 1000至$ 1800 USD，但大部分人口的收入低于我妈妈
（虽然成为国会议员是非常有利可图的，但实际上并没有’t even require 您 to go to work, it’更像是一种与情绪有关的事情-每月薪金超过$ 3000…要爱政治家）
So while I agree with what 您’re saying, I don’t see anyone from around here being able to just up and do it. (This is also the reason 您 view Budapest as a cheap destination but for Hungarians it’s about as expensive as it gets 🙂 still if 您 find all the right places it 能够 be a pretty budget place for us as well.)
芭芭拉
加博尔（Gabor），我住在布达佩斯，我平均每月能得到800美元，在过去的三年中，我去了希腊，两次去了伊斯坦布尔，去了基辅，伦敦，罗马尼亚，萨格勒布，贝尔格莱德，克尔克，斯洛文尼亚，十六湖和布拉迪斯拉发。几周后’我去约旦和以色列旅行。我回德国或维也纳的时候我不知道’t even mention. 那里 are hardly ever passing more than 3 months without traveling. So travel IS possible. It all depends on which sh*thole 您 are willing to live in and what crappy wine 您 are willing to drink (yes, I do go out every week).
但不可否认，因此即使有两个工作，在这里节省长期旅行几乎是不可能的。但是短途旅行总比没有旅行好，对吗？
加博尔
Oh also to underscore the ridiculousness of our situation compared to Western 欧洲, I just recently came home from a semester I spent in France on Erasmus (which means 您 also get a stipendum from the 欧洲an Union that covers a large chunk of 您r expenses if 您’很幸运），在回家之前，我在巴黎迪斯尼乐园做了为期2周的工作，赚了几乎和我妈妈差不多的钱…3个月。 （还尝试着在波尔多时尽我所能节省，如果一切顺利，我会’会用这笔钱在纽约呆几天–远不是一个预算目的地，但我’我一直梦想着永远到那里去，现在我终于可以负担得起了！ ：P）
总而言之，很棒的博客和本文要点。我刚刚创建了一个“Travel” folder in my browser and 您r blog is the first one I bookmarked and added to it. Found it through Benny’自从我以某种方式（fluentin3months）写博客’我也是一个语言迷。
加博尔-
曼弗雷德
优秀的文章。我一生中也遇到过很多鲍勃。他们是说自己想旅行的人，但不要’没有钱，但同时他们的朋友处在完全相同的状态，但是一定要旅行。鲍勃总是有一个借口，为什么他们可以’走吧有人根本没有钱旅行。它’他也觉得自己可以’从30,000美元的薪水中节省了3年20,000美元。他要做的就是每年节省7,000美元。剩下$ 23,000可以继续生活。令人惊讶的是，有些人实际上每年的生活费为23,000美元。问题可能是像鲍勃那样的人’想要旅行以节省精力。我们都有选择。有些人选择每年节省7,000美元，以便他们可以整整一年的旅行时间，而另一些人则宁愿将钱花在最新的小工具上，外出就餐，喝酒或其他。这种选择没有错，如果可以的话’是他们想要的。但是他们做出了选择，所以他们不应该’然后抱怨他们没有’没有足够的旅行。他们做出了选择。
玛拉
<——–正在将她的名字更改为"What about 鲍勃"
劳伦
I totally agree with 您 Matt! I did my first 5 month solo backpacking trip of 欧洲 back in 2009. I had a part time job and was on benefits for a small period of time. I made some smart decisions like:
我的工作使我可以免费在现场居住，这为我节省了汽油和租金（其中还包括免费食物！讲价！）。
我停止购买废话，惊讶地节省了多少钱。
我每个周末都停止外出活动。
等等。
Just like 您, I funded a 5 month trip in about 8 months. But I’老实说，我是粗略的，我在宿舍吃了用偷来的早餐用品制成的果酱三明治，我在火车站睡了，住在一些小小的旅馆里。但是最终，我度过了愉快的时光，我有一些有趣的故事，而且我现在知道如何几乎不花钱去欧洲旅行（5个月的旅行花了我10,000美元）。
这是有可能的，并且那些怀疑的人头脑开阔，视野开阔。
谢谢您发表的另一篇精彩文章Matt！继续努力！
戴维·西尔维斯特
很棒的文章！
I’m a living example as well as 您 马特that it is possible without any helping hands 要么 so.
我父亲在我18岁（因酗酒而去世）时去世，而我母亲则生活在丹麦州以赚取收入，因为她对...’m from Denmark).
2 parents who are heavy alcoholics without jobs is not gonna make me have any good economic, in my 您ng life right? i’ve had no help and i’我要在两天内离开进行永久旅行，就像马特’ve刚完成我的教育，当时住在我的公寓中，同时支付房租和旅行费用，每月仅靠100美元的食物和饮料生活，没有真正在账单和食物/饮料之外的任何东西上花钱。人们只需要优先考虑就可以了！哦，我’m离开丹麦约20.000 $
I’我从未真正遇见过“real”鲍勃，但我想-
安迪·瓦特（Andy Watt）
I only recently started reading 您r blogs and find them so refreshing. I’我已经离开家旅行Oz和NZ超过2年了，并且热爱它。做了大量不同的工作。如此分地流泪。
I am glad that on reading 您r advice that I followed most of it without knowing it. But I think 您’ve missed one key rule out. If 您 plan to stay and live in a country a while, and 您 travel with money, get a job and don’花它。这是我在2011年第1次到达珀斯时犯的主要错误。我带着大约$ 11000aus的身价，在超市里做几次换班，到处都是奇怪的日子，那里的园艺等我接近年底。’d在3个月内几乎全部消失了。唐’t get me wrong, I had an awesome time (of what I remember) though it perhaps inhibited me in what I eventually saw in my 2 years there (I missed Darwin so never got to wrestle a crocodile- gutted). I would just say if 您 have a bit of money, keep it if 您 能够. 那’s 您r fun money for trips and stuff. 唐’t live on it.
也有旅行信用卡的任何捕获。我的意思是，我可以得到一张里程，并且从不使用卡，所以什么都不花呢？
游牧民族
对，就那个’s right. If it has a yearly fee, just make sure to 能够cel the card 要么 move to a no fee card if 您 don’不想付这笔费用。
胡里奥·莫雷诺
When I first read 您r post about saving $20,000 in three years, I was a bit surprised. I thought 您 were maybe even low-balling 您rself to seem more believable. I think the main reason people don’save钱是因为他们在经济学和数学上很烂，旅行是’在他们的优先级列表上高。
如果大多数人的薪水立即增加一倍，他们会认为“大房子，大电视，新电脑，东西，东西，东西。”我认为人们说他们想旅行，但实际上，它在优先事项列表中很少。我见过在电话上花1000美元的人，我想“像是飞往东南亚的2个航班的男人！”如果我的工资翻倍，我会认为“泰国，柬埔寨，马来西亚。”我们所有人都将生活放在优先事项上，并把大部分钱花在优先事项上。旅行是一样的。
很多人也喜欢数学。他们认为“30,000 a year”作为一个坚实的数字，而忘记了诸如电力，税收等必需品。当他们添加诸如“昂贵的电话计划，有线电视，不必要的大公寓”等等到优先级列表。
就个人而言，我很节俭…好吧，我有不同的工作重点，每月收入约800美元。鉴于我住在韩国，那里的东西便宜了约20％，但我也住在美国，并且在洛杉矶也设法省钱。
我三年级（储蓄）的工作差不多完成了，预计可以完全还清我的债务（40k），并在三月前节省10k。它为N’不可思议，这是我三年前制定并坚持的计划。
同时，我设法进行了两次秘鲁，印度尼西亚，中国，台湾，意大利和日本的旅行。这不是魔术…并且我将在几个月内写一篇完整的文章来展示数学（请进军，以确保达到目标）。
我的意思是，马特可以做什么。他出售有关博客和旅行的书籍…我在这里听到的主要批评。哇马特… big no no… how dare 您 尝试 to sell tips on blogging and travel… what makes YOU such an authority. Oh yeah, 您 traveled non-stop for 8 years and have the top travel blog in the world.
I’我不是在这里亲吻马特’s 您 know what. 我的 point is that people spend so much money on travel books (like the lonely planet), and self help books and never consider calling those people a cheat. Here we have a blog run for so many years as a resume (which is more than 我可以 say for Lonely planet writers, if 您 have followed their controversy), he has the right to sell his knowledge, like any book author, if he so pleases. If 您 don’不喜欢它，不要购买它，但是要说，如果拥有完整的BS，就不可能节省一大笔钱。
游牧民族
感谢Julio的客气和鼓励！
策布
鲍勃 鲍勃 鲍勃…
我拥有自己的网站/业务（与旅行无关），并且我’ve在我的博客上以及几乎每个博客上都发现了这一点’ve ever read, there’s always a “Bob.” 那里’s always someone who takes 您r advice and tips and tells 您 why it CAN’T be done and then goes even further to get angry that 您 would even suggest such advice. These people ignore the advice, and all the evidence that others are “doing it,”总是有一些特殊的原因为什么他们可以’t. Yet here 鲍勃 is on 您r site, reading 您r stuff. And why? Because he wants to travel, but he’s just too afraid, and seeing 您 do it only reminds him that the problem is him, not money. And if the 鲍勃斯 spent as much time and energy going after what they want as they do defending their own self-limiting beliefs and attacking all who challenging them, think about how amazing their lives could be!
Food for thought, 鲍勃
顺便说一下，NM，很棒的网站…
查理
每年每月每周每日
带回家£9,399.45£783.29£180.76£36.15
如果我以18至21岁年轻人的最低工资全职工作，这就是我在英国获得的收入的一个例子。对于许多人来说，他们在这个国家能找到的唯一工作是领取最低工资的，全职工作变得越来越稀有– 您th unemployment is running at around 20%.
住所 alone 能够not be found for less than £200 a month all inclusive, and that is if 您 are living in a student house-share 要么 something similar. If I wanted to rent a studio flat, due to the other costs incurred such as council tax, water rates, energy –我可能希望每月最便宜的价格是400英镑（’非常乐观）。
因此，即使住在最便宜的住宿中–我还剩下583.29英镑，可以为我提供生存所需的一切。即使生活在非常紧张的预算中–由于国家/地区以及我所居住的国家/地区的不同– let’s说我每月在其他所有方面花费100英镑。这使我每个月有483.29英镑的积蓄。
Of course, all of this depends on an un-skilled, 您ng man to have a job at all, let alone one which offers the luxury of full-time hours.
如果真是这样，那么在一年之中，今天我将节省9429.95美元’s exchange rate. How would 您 advise the truly working class people of the UK, and from 您r own country, to travel for meaningful amounts of time –考虑到在世界的某些地区，尤其是在欧元区，在我的情况下，是否存在返回家乡找不到工作的巨大风险？
Please also take in mind that my example is from England. What about Greece, and Spain, where 您th unemployment is running as high as 50% 要么 more??
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不讨厌，只喜欢想法！
塔塔·拉萨德（Tata Rasyad）
I think I know a 鲍勃 my Dad. He’第63条，永远不要旅行。他走的最远的路程是从廖内到雅加达的1.5小时飞行，我们住在印度尼西亚。我们所有的生命（我和3个哥哥）都没有旅行。我们选择在每个学校放假期间访问西苏门答腊村庄的祖母（现在，从廖内开车要6-7个小时），或访问雅加达的祖父。我们从来没有活动去巴厘岛。
直到最近，我的兄弟还是去瑞典出差，他带着妻子和3.5岁的儿子去欧洲旅行。 3周。
突然，他的一位密友告诉他去欧洲旅行。他一生都在工作中挽救了34年。那是他的‘A-ha!’ Moment, i guess. He’目前正在计划行程，不必担心由于即将到来的学校假期和暑假而使机票价格攀升。他说他想去。他带我（和我的2,5yo），因为我的父母只会说印尼语。我们四个人（还有妈妈）下个月要去欧洲。设想出国旅行，在计划行程时，我已经感到无法解释的能量。顺便说一句，我终于在几周前和我的办公室同事一起去了巴厘岛，此后一直没有搬家。
Reading this 文章 about 鲍勃 hits me to the bone. Maybe I was a 鲍勃 too. Thinking that there’s no way i 能够 travel. This thought had been shared with my husband too. 您 change my mind, Matt. So i think i’我想着要去最近的购物中心去我办公室的那些午餐“这是在泰国住一晚的酒店，” i’我要保存。我会。接下来，我可以和我的丈夫一起旅行。
Thank 您, Matt.
塔塔
凯尔·麦肯纳（Kyle McKenna）
It’从来没有觉得是对我的牺牲，甚至一点也不’ve always travelled as much as I wanted. Were there trade-offs? OF course. But 您’re already making trade-offs whether 要么 not 您 recognize it. What 您’re doing right now is a trade off in relation to something else 您 could be doing. I’我并不富裕，但我旅行得很好，仅仅是因为我想。人们所做的其他事情，我可能没有那么感兴趣。’s not magic–it’s just deciding what 您 like most and then doing it. Expensive restaurants, movies, vacation homes, etc? I’我不感兴趣所以我不’t miss them.
Martina 唐kers
另一个令人振奋的精彩文章，谢谢马特！
我有点喜欢鲍勃（Bob）的傻瓜表情，“我的侄女有一个比这更大的博客！” Uhhhh sure, ok, good for 您r niece – but 您 do 真实ise this is the number one travel blog out there and that everyone else looks here for inspiration, right? I mean, I’确保那里有更大的博客–但不在旅途中，这是我列出的任何网站中排名第一的网站’ve ever seen!
但是可以，可以做到– 您 just have to go. If 您’re clever with airfares, 您 能够 go a long way on not very much. Sydney to Singapore for $180? 那’s a thing now! And from Singapore, 您 能够 go anywhere, especially if 您 travel slowly and use local transport. It’只是变得聪明一点，仔细考虑各种选择并享受旅程吧！
马蒂娜-
游牧民族
玛蒂娜（Martina），非常感谢您的客气！ --
亚历克斯
有趣的是，昨晚我得到了同样的结果。人们不断告诉我，我有能力做自己做的事，“break”在我的职业生涯中，没有汽车，公寓或其他义务等。
没有人看到准备工作并为此付出了代价。
Like everybody else I met a lot of people doing the same and 您 能够 always look at it from to sites: 的guy that left Germany to take a managing position in China – Of course he was lucky with this offer but he had to manage to move with his wife and two schoolkids. For everybody 您 能够 find a reason that it was way easier for them than for 您rself but in the end it’s again only finding excuses. Because everybody has to overcome hurdles that prevent them from travelling, and these hurdles are very personal ones. While for 您rself it might be very difficult to overcome, for others it might be easy as.
罗宾
Love 您r site. Hit the road over a year ago and not ready to quit yet! Paying off debt, dragging son along, and dog and cat. Learning to make a living on the road and loving it. 博客gers like 您 keep bloggers like me going.
游牧民族
感谢您的客气话！ --
亚当
好一个！我的伴侣和我有全职工作，但我们仍有时间去菲律宾旅游。后来，它将是世界。一切都取决于彻底规划一切，从行程，时间表到预算。
在第三世界国家’确实付出了这么多钱，但是通过努力工作，节省金钱和精明的赚钱技巧，我们能够实现自己的激情和梦想，即旅行和冒险！
雷切尔·梅尔（Rachel Maer）
马特！我是你的榜样’re talking about! I’现在已经去过35个国家/地区，并且在美国旅行中花费了超过三年的时间（以一个月，三个月，六个月等不同的时间段）。我的父母从来没有为我提供任何大学或旅行费用的帮助，当我第一次旅行时，我也还清了学生贷款。有时候，当我在网上发布旅游图片时，高中的老朋友表现得像我’我是百万富翁之类的，有些人对我有些生气’能够做我所做的事… But it’就像您说的那样，有很多方法可以削减成本以节省资金。我不’我没有电视订阅或昂贵的手机套餐，’不要疯狂买衣服或鞋子，我不’我不要在外面吃饭或喝酒时发疯’t购买所有玩具，例如视频游戏系统等… People don’没有意识到他们确实花了多少钱，而仅仅花在其他事情上。所以我的“secret”只是我省了钱（而我’我什至从未和父母住在一起！），有时我在其他国家教英语。您’我只是要看着你的钱然后（当你’重新保存），稍后再’重新旅行（例如住在旅馆而不是旅馆）。
海莉·梅兰德
嘿，马特！谢谢你的这篇文章&我不能在更好的时间阅读它。自从我很少旅行以来，世界一直是我的激情。我目前正在非常努力地工作并努力工作，以便于9月与刚买了房子的祖父母搬到厄瓜多尔（蒙塔尼塔附近）。我也有机会在加拉帕戈斯群岛工作了10月份（超级激动） 。但是我父亲是鲍勃，实际上比鲍勃更愤世嫉俗。我刚高中毕业，在想出自己将来的学习计划或任何其他计划之前，我无法抗拒旅行的热情至少要短暂。自从我父亲发现后，我就一直对他保持沉默，当他表达自己的感受时，听起来像是“你会被绑架” “你只有富有才能旅行” ”我不想回家时不付机票” ”高中毕业后你不能搬到第三世界国家” “解决我们关系的唯一方法是，如果你不去”。您可以想象，我会极力劝阻自己旅行并通过自己的激情和梦想创造自己的生活。您可能无法想象我与鲍勃一起生活时会有怎样的激情，我也是。无论如何，我只是在寻找一些建议，想知道您是否可以提供任何鼓励的话。感谢您的启发和有用的提示。
罗伯特·海狸
matt, i enjoy reading 您r columns. ive just returned from southeast asia for the 5th time. ive decided i want tostay in michigan for the summer and travel back over from the end of october until may. i have some savings, no bills and my 3 master cards are paid off. i have back accounts with 2 banks with atm cards. i bring in about 4500.00 a month so money should not be a problem. my question is, i want to rent a apartment somewhere which will be my home and travel around to differant placees for a few days at a time.am having a hard time deciding on which city 要么 area would be best., hopefully 您 能够 give me some ideas, thankyou
金美
本文是否有一个喜欢的按钮？没有？然后想象一个，但是像x10，哈哈。一世\’自从我得到一个很棒的老板的绿灯允许旅行以来，我就一直在阅读您的帖子（没有PTO，但是他\’如果我告诉他什么时候我不会追捕我\’米离开，提前多长时间。我几乎给了他6个月！）。我患有Sarah Palin综合征，我不\ ’我还真想在另一个国家/地区居住（所以），所以英语教学已经不在了。但是我受到旅行的启发，我将在几周内去日本东京和我的祖国泰国。它\’已经很久了，我\’在与妈妈一起生活和支付账单的时候，预算，计划和节省了很多。她和我一起旅行，我们正在分摊费用。它\’这是唯一的超级昂贵，因为我们想去游览并进行特定的活动，但是如果我减少旅行并自己去旅行，那会便宜得多。因此，我相信您的一切\’ve说过，您的方法是合法的（并且认为Bob是一个简单，简单的**。您\’只是超级好）。
约旦
I’很幸运，我之所以能够省下这笔钱，是因为我没有为整个大学生涯支付租金。即使我确实支付房租，我也仍然可以长期旅行，尽管只有2-3个月。那个’仅需7个月就可节省每年26k的餐厅工作费用！就我的收入而言，要花整整一年的时间才能花掉大约16,000英镑，这会花费很长时间，但是总有总有没有总比没有好。另外，我也有学生债务。
I’我会承认不是每个人都有中等收入的薪水或可以像许多数字游牧民一样通过远程业务产生收入，但是不要’t let 您r limiting beliefs be the thing that prevent 您 from traveling. 那’s truly a shame.
迪登’t 马特have a post about a guy who worked 60 hours per week at 9$ per hour to travel around the world? If 您 aren’t willing to give something up then what do 您 expect to get?
维基
我们是2名成人和3个孩子，去年我们的口袋里有8,000多美元，他们设法离开了家。在我们镇上，生意不景气，要么将我们带游泳池的双层房子打包成一个存储单元，然后缓慢旅行12个月，要么因为这里的费用太高而住在帐篷里。我们选择去亚洲，像国王一样生活。向孩子们介绍了新的文化，水上乐园，美食，新奇的朋友和新人们，他们在没有追求唯物主义和跟上他们的赠予赠品朋友回家的情况下蓬勃发展。在他们的教育过程中，他们被赋予了在现实世界中生活的工具，而我的女儿（10岁）现在正在开设她的第一个电子商务网站，因此她没有’t rely on a 9 –5份工作或必须偿还成千上万的教育债务，才能使她生活下去。现在，她的思维方式向我们敞开大门，即使我们不走也没想到。愤世嫉俗的人告诉我们，我们的孩子会屈服于疾病，毒贩或恋童癖。那些愤世嫉俗的人也是家庭，他们当然不是’当我们乘飞机回到新生活的时候，在机场挥舞着他们的手帕向我们挥舞着。他们是想让我们融入自己的小生活的人。对于他们，我的中指无法充分表达我们的感受。自从旅行以来，随着思维方式的改变，我们比以往任何时候都拥有更多的工作，并且不再依赖本地业务。正如他们所说，世界是我们的牡蛎，我们将尽一切可能采摘它。反对者会躺在你的沙发上，上面印着你的屁股。欣赏等离子电视和电视屏幕上的垃圾。生活是要生活的，当他们放下我棺材的盖子时，我希望他们知道我们每一秒钟都充满了有价值的回忆，而不是没有任何意义的东西。
琳恩
马特– thank 您 so much for the time and energy 您 put into 您r blog posts. I\’ve only recently discovered 您, but I plan to follow 您 everywhere now :).
I am both a teacher and a student, and it felt more comfortable (for me) to begin my travels with a job teaching abroad. I actually love work and school, so I may 要么 may not continue both as time unfolds. For me. it was an enormous paradigm shift to 真实ize 我可以 do both from wherever I want to be given proper planning.
我有一个博客/日记，但我可能会更改访问权限，以便将其公开。我不\’不知道我是否有什么要帮助的，但是也许，如果没有，\’s the harm?
好吧
琳恩
梅兰妮
“然后他们就不会悲惨和愤世嫉俗。”
I know 您 wrote this four years ago, but the truth 您 present behind the idea hits home.
I appreciate 您r honesty and 您r patience toward all the 鲍勃斯 and Jessicas. 我的 husband and I have been lucky that as we make plans to sell all our things and go on a long hike we have received a lot of support, but when we talk about getting back and living in an RV people’利益平淡而玩世不恭。为什么？永远是他们的第一个问题。
Regardless, it is a life that works for us and we MOST DEFINITELY 能够 and will make it happen. Thank 您 for 您r support for all of us who see living differently and, because of that, pursue the life even the haters 能够’t ignore.