Spent 10 days of so in Egypt recently.Itinerary:>Cairo>Med coast & Marsa matruh>Siwa Oasis>CairoIt usually gets a bad rep, so will tell a few tales, give some advice, answer some questions, and share some pics from along the way.
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As we reached Siwa, the road snaked downwards from the rocky plateau, down into what looked like the sillouhette of a fucking forest, all illuminated by a near full moon.Upon entering the town, we had to have our documents and bags checked, apparently Libyan smugglers run these routes, and apparently you're not really allowed to bring alcohol in to the town (might be 1 bottle for tourists IF you have a receipt).We met our host, and was shocked at the sheer size of the place. It looked like a normal (for Egyptian standards) town, right in the middle of the fucking desert. We got some juices, and got a little intro to the place, all before jumping in the back of his 4x4 and getting taken to our accommodation....My gf was evidently a little scared as we seemed to endlessly drive through date plantations, cottages, fields, and backstreets. My phone was on about 7% battery and turned off wifi, and ii have to admit, it felt a little strange just getting driven off into the middle of absolutely nowhere, in pitch black, watching how the 'civilization' we saw before gave way to sheer abandonment.
It was a little scary the first night. We were dropped into a house 10km away from the centre of the oasis, and pretty much were in the middle of nowhere. Given we were about 20km away from the Libyan border, it was quite a surreal feeling, and I couldn't help thinking about the odds of a rigged out Toyota Hilux coming rolling over the dunes in the background, and fucking everything up.We were both a bit nervous, so decided to get out some vodka and chill on our terrace. Every noise made me wonder wtf was happening, whether it was a random motorbike from an unknown direction, the rustling of date trees, voices.... But as the drinks kept flowing, these noises started to disappear, giving way to the beauty of a near full moon illuminating the unknown of the desert in front of us, and wondering whether there's another soul anywhere within the next 1500km in front of us.
>>2848402bump
Nice thread OP, been to Egypt once or twice when I was a teenager with my mom's diving club which apparently, before the Arab spring was a prime diving destination. We went to Sharm El Sheik and I'd wander around the resort asking random workers if they could sell me some hashish with no luck unfortunately. There's something magical about hotel resorts in the middle of the dessert. I also remember buying Cleopatra brand cigarettes for €1.
This board was always slow but now its pretty much deserted Did people just stop traveling after the pamademic?
>>2850820The thread/trip report has 5 gigantic and a lot of smaller problems:1. GF mentioned and it's neither a tismo Place, Japan, slum dwelling digital nomad nor a tranny fucking sexpest story. (You just lost 70% of the audience.)2. here's maybe 30 poster on this board that actually travel of those 10 have a attention span over 5sec and if you're lucky you will find 5 that can actually read on the level of a 5th grader. (now we are at 90%) 3. It's about Egypt, so yeah it has the same pull factor as Magaluf or Benidorm. (make it 95%)4. You've been there, you speak some of the language and it's a pretty normie trip. It's smooth sailing with no surprises, adventures or actual problems. Me growing up in italy(Meran), speaking fluent italian going back to italy guarantees a boring thread. (We are at 98%)5. Your writing style is uhm interesting you jump all over the place. Irrelevant side notes turn into paragraphs and what could be interesting is cut off (And it's 99.9999%)
Serious question, 4chan in general seems to be dead outside the main boards. Does anybody post on other forums/IBs? At this point I think I'd be down to jump on some boomer forum.
>>2850887absolute brainrot. tiktok is more your speed.
>>2851030The whole internet's dead. Social media has sucked up everything and goymaxxed everybody.
>>2850820I'll give it a bump friend.
What are yous doing this year? We ran out of the last thread, so let's get going again.Picrel - saw a definite channer in Frank a while ago, what do you fellers do on your days off?
>>2851029This is going to blow your mind, but when you go to the barber, you, the customer, are the one who selects which haircut you want. I know that going without your mommy for the very first time will be a big step for you, but I believe in you. Just take a picture of the big boy haircut you want and show the barber.
>>2851089so many things led up to this point in time for this soup to exist, it's kinda mental.>some sea bugs were farmed in a stinky water pond because people thought "mmm tastey">decades have past, with hundreds of this singular shrimp's ancestral generations being fed to humans after living in the dirty farm pond>"mmm tastey" thoughts persist for decades too>some chud decides that huffing seaside air tastes good>now if only he could find an edible source of this>hmm, something edib-VAGINA YUMMY WITH SEABUG!! HAHA THROW IN IN PLASTIC, THROW IT IN PLASTIC!! HAHA!! YESS!!!
>>2851091don't you have grocery store shelves to be stocking, big guy?
>>2851092>you will eat the bugs.ew no way I hate the antichrist>you will eat the seabugsHECKIN YES SIGN ME UP GIVE ME MORE MORE MORE, GIMME THOSE POOP POND SEABUGS NOW!!!
>>2851094I know, right?
>going on holiday to Paris and London during Christmas break from work>felt worry and dread last night>felt dread before taxi took me to airport>now on my way there and strongly feel like going straight back home and doing nothing Is this normal? I'm travelling alone as an ugly male and I'm just going to walk around and look at old stuff.I've already paid for everything.
>>2850872Christmas is not the best time to solo travel.Solo travelers should only travel off season.Keep on pushing, maybe you'll end up being a normal person (probably not, but what's the alternative anyways). Did you try getting drunk a few days and see what happens?
>>2850912No. I had a red velvet latte and had my first bit of junk food for over a week. Not out of cravings but more out of wanting to try French sweets (which taste the same as British ones). I think their is Ozempic in the air supply here because I haven't felt cravings or hunger since I landed here.
Just head over to Corcoran's and have a few beer with the lads and play some pool or darts.It's that simple.
>>2850872You'll get much more judgement going to a burger king or mcd than eating at a random restaurant desu
It's my final hour in Paris before going to the airport. No French food or drink eaten. Just American fast food and coffee. I can't bear the image of myself going into some French store and ordering something. It's like imagining myself going into a dance class or something. Being ugly is a second to second embarrassment.The architecture in the middle of the city, from the Arc de Triomphe down, I think, Avenue de Foch, is very good and mogs other cities.
$2K per month isn’t enough anymore.
>>2850525Anon you do know that just because HIV is mostly affecting gay people it doesn't mean that you're magically immune to it, right? If you have frequent unprotected sex, even if it's straight sex, you will be exposed to syphilis, gonorrhea and other STIs, all of which increase your risk of catching HIV. If you have unprotected anal sex you're at increased risk of HIV, even if it's you putting the penis in a girl's butt. If you have sex with a woman who has recently caught HIV, you're at HIGHLY increased risk of HIV. And even notwithstanding all I just said, straight unprotected sex with a HIV+ woman still puts you at risk of catching HIV, just with lower chances than anal sex.Every time you're having unprotected penetrative sex with a stranger, no matter what kind of sex it is, you're playing russian roulette. You are very likely to get lucky once, ten times or even a hundred times, but you just need to get unlucky once, and you have HIV for life. PrEP is free with a lot of insurance plans you know. But hey don't let a stranger on 4chan scaremonger you, keep going at it if you feel good with your odds
>>2850335>I've been all over SEAYeah, sure you have. In fact, it looks like you copypasted a post from some coomer forum dated 2014 talking about how every girl is a "teen" (in 2025 they are all old women agefrauding), they only ask 1000 pesos (in 2025 they know their worth and they know how much guys are willing to pay), nobody cares about age gaps (they do in this looks-obsessed age, girls can't stand being seen with a grandpa anymore), and picking up girls on the Manila street is easy (they don't even glance at the average 30 year old incel tourist in 2025, let alone show signs of interest).Manila is easily the worst city in Asia, because it has all the filthiness and bad smells of other hypercrowded Third World dump, but with none of the friendliness and kindness that you encounter as a foreign visitor in other hypercrowded Third World dumps like Kolkata or Dhaka. As long as shills like you keep the "le easy teen" meme alive, suckers will continue buying flights to MNL and then getting reality checked as soon as they hit the streets.
>>2850614>>2850616It's real schizoposting hours on /trv/Looks like you did indeed have a lot of raw sex with Pinay sluts. Syphilis already got to your brain
If I want to check out the phillipines should I get a visa so I can stay longer than a month or will I be disgusted and want to leave by the time a month is up?
>>2850852You will most assuredly only need 1 month to determine if you love or hate the place. I recommend not spending it all in one spot, and keeping your baggage lightweight and easy to move around with.
>fell for the travel solo meme
>>2841767>Go out drinking alone every nightYou just walk into a bar, sit at the counter and order a whisky? Then someone else alone comes closer and talks to you, like in a film?
>>2850921Based. Great answer
>>2840261I'd rather travel alone than with a good friend but it depends a bit. Like if I'm just going to the beach then sure, bring friends and hang out. But for proper traveling and exploring, I just want to be alone.
>>2850922If you're drunk enough and if you stay until the real drunks get there you can just talk to people, I've only ever done this on NYC where people are more inclined to talk to randos so YMMV but yea you just drink, get drunk, try to talk to people, often you can catch people smoking outside so you can talk to them as well.
>>2851049Smoking is OP for speaking to people. Actual gamechanger.
Favorite places in Greece?
Ive been living in athens for 5 months and im depressed. the islands were nice in summer but now in winter its so dark.any recommendations on what to do/where to go?
>>2850078Aegina, Nafplio, Delphi, Patra
>>2849742>>2849703you do understand the Charlemane when modeling the Holy Roman Empire which he envisioned as the continuation of the western roman empire he did so modeling it based on the other roman empire than was there, the byzantines. Also wtf do you mean? Both culturally and as an empire it was a clear continuation of the roman empire. They kept the roman law and occasionally did minor updated and revisions. They kept the roman civil system for bureaucrats and for managing territories. They kept the roman army compositions and all restructurings around the centuries, they kept the same imperialist system with the head of state being the head of the church as well, with the only difference being the transition to Christianity. They kept even the bad stuff like generals rising to emperors and the ocassional civil wars. They centered their empire around a large city with a huge port that was the center of trade, commerce and imperial authority. They kept using the same name, and others countries kept viewing them as the continuation of the roman empire. Anyone who claims they werent romans is a revisionist retard.
>>2849746If you talk about "Classical Rome" as solely the Latin part, then sure. But the Roman state was as much Greek as it was Latin.
>>2850882Christians are the revisionists. They are claiming the successes of an ancient empire to give themselves legitiimacy after running everything into the ground. The Christian ideology underpinning Byzantium was faaaaaaaaaar different to that of Rome, and you know it. It's absolutely chalk and cheese. You're claiming they're the same due to>legal system>military system>methods of leaders coming to power>having a capitalSo I'm guessing the USA is the British Empire?If you want to pull the 'but they view themselves as', then I'm sure you're happy to accept Moscow as the 3rd Rome?
I'm going to be in Buenos Aires for two weeks in January for a grad student exchange ...Is there any natural beauty or super cool thing you would recommend that can be visited in 1-3 days, over a weekend? I have like $45,000 debt racked up on a student line of credit so am on a budget, but can make sacrifices if need be Patagonia (e.g. Lago Argentino) is allegedly expensive and also far as fuck from Buenos Aires, so as much as I love hiking not sure how to make that worksame thing with the Iguazu Falls - it is in Misiones province which apparently has a large Polish population (cool!) but is remotealso, > tips on how not to get robbed for being a gringo
>>2850315again, argie here and I remember hearing about this since forever, always treated as an urban myth with no real evidence provided. Here are two news articles from over 10 years ago in the biggest national newspaper talking about it:>https://www.lanacion.com.ar/seguridad/burundanga-la-droga-que-asusta-a-todos-pero-que-aun-nadie-vio-nid1738748/>https://www.lanacion.com.ar/lifestyle/burundanga-la-nueva-droga-de-la-noche-nid1522283/Quoting from the article:>Burundanga—that drug which supposedly renders victims unconscious in seconds, leaving them at the mercy of criminals—is among us, even though it hasn't been possible to verify if the stories being told are true.>Science refutes the idea that a drug can act with the speed attributed to scopolamine, its scientific name.>Carlos Damín, director of Toxicology at the Fernández Hospital, explains that it has ophthalmic uses and comes in powder, drops, or ampoules, but adds: "There is no substance that, when sprinkled, produces an immediate effect." Despite this, fear and psychosis are, for the moment, gaining ground.>Were they all victims of scopolamine? They believe so. Scientifically, it's more complicated to prove. According to Damin, medicine hasn't been able to study these types of cases because victims rarely go to the doctor after the attacks: "At Fernández Hospital, we've never treated a case like this."So again, this has been happening for decades but I guess no doctors or authorities ever gave enough of a fuck to look into it, it was just dismissed as urban myth or exaggeration.
>>2849940> you could just cross the river to coloniaunesco world heritage site and a lot closer, thanks for that tip. online the tickets seem to be in the over $120-$150 CAD range for round trip - I assume it's cheaper to book in person at a ferry terminal? on that topic, what's the best way to pay for items and experiences, e.g. at the ferry terminal? USD cash, VISA credit card, argentine peso cash ? >>2849952>>2850315yeah i wasn't planning to do hookers on this trip fortunately. Will be staying close to PalermoReal travellers (and in my experience I agree) emphasize you need time to really experience a destination, so a Patagonian speedrun seems just like useless stat-padding. Will probably do tigre, colonia, places in and around CABA. >>2850082noted
>>2850943>I assume it's cheaper to book in person at a ferry terminal?argie here, it's usually the same price unfortunately. I found round trips here https://www.buquebus.com/ar/ for $100 USD.There's no real difference now between the legal and illegal exchange rates, so it doesn't really matter what you pay with. The safest for you would be with your credit card, right? But also keep some ARG cash in hand, tons of things you'll want to do might not take card.
>>2850321when they do toxicology it's almost always some kind of pharmaceutical sedative administered through a drink.burundunga is real and can be asborbed through skin or lungs, but the effects are less predictable, so it's not an ideal drug (compared to a pharmaceutical). they just want to knock you out, not deal with your hallucinations and delirium.
>>2850943When I lived there for 4 months I stayed in Palermo and it was great. Palermo Soho.
Any based /trv experiences from dangerous countries like Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan?
Haven't been but I know Papua New Guinea is legitimately unsafe for foreignerst. know people whom have worked there and they conveyed stories
>>2840692I ve been to Lebanon. It wasn't getting bombed at that point in time, but the possibility was there. >The isis thing was still going next door so a couple of the roman ruins near the borders were kinda off limits. >Went to Tyr near the israel border and got stopped by a couple of Hezbollah blocks and a UN one but nothing happened. >Saw a tone of building with bullet holes from the previous war>Still had fun
>>2847505Would you be kind to elaborate more on that country?
Colombia should be most dangerous to /trv/ posters since several sex tourists have been murdered and robbed in Columbia, despite being US tourists.>U.S. Embassy Bogota is aware of eight suspicious deaths of private U.S. citizens in Medellin between November 1 and December 31, 2023. The deaths appear to involve either involuntary drugging overdose or are suspected homicides. At this time, it is not believed these deaths are linked as each involved distinct circumstances, however several of the deaths point to possible drugging, robbery, and overdose, and several involve the use of online dating applications.>According to the Tourism Observatory of the District Personnel of Medellin, the number of thefts committed against foreign visitors (excluding Venezuelans) increased 200 percent in the third trimester of 2023 compared to the previous year and violent deaths of foreign visitors increased 29 percent. Most of the 2023 violent death victims were U.S. citizens.>Criminals use dating apps to lure victims to meet in public places such as hotels, restaurants, and bars, and then later assault and rob them. Numerous U.S. citizens in Colombia have been drugged, robbed, and even killed by their Colombian dates.https://co.usembassy.gov/security-alert-risks-of-using-online-dating-applications/
>>2840744I'd be more inclined to try hitchhiking on any of those countries than in Mexico yeat. mexican
If you've ever flown, I'd like to hear about your experiences or anecdotes. I'll start: >Being anon and having to go to the US >Family buys tickets with American Airlines >Route is from the airport closest to my house to DFW and then IAH >The flight is supposed to leave at 2:30 am, and I've been at the airport since 11:00 pm >The damn plane is delayed and jeopardizes our flight from DFW to IAH. I don't understand Black people. I thought American Airlines was a good airline, but it seems like the Americans don't give a damn about delaying flights and compromising the loyalty of their few remaining customers.
>>2850780It seems I would be better off just flying from SAP-MIA, MIA-LAX for a future trip to Japan. At least ZipAir flights from LAX to NRT are cheaper.
>>2850604Respectable traveler with the good spirit.
>>2850818OP here. Next time I will be like >>2850604 and be better prepared
>>2850803Why don't you just fly to LAX...Actual mental retardation at this point
>>2850965>Why don't you just fly to LAX...Because that's the cheapest route to LAX. Surprise, surprise, there is a reason hubs exist and AA makes me do a connection at MIA first. I checked on Google Flights
Americans unironically see a gas station as a trip highlight.
>>2847369It's not Americans, it's Southerners. We in the North would never behave like this.
>>2847369Japanese too, how sad
>>2847602>dood like that's the thing about New York is you can get like a sanwich at a freakin bodega! where else but NYC can you do that?Fucking everywhere. Literally every fucking where in the entire world you monkey nigger cumstain moron. Kill yourself, kill yourself NOW. New Yorkers are the scum of the fucking Earth. No other group of people is as self-assured of their superiority while being so inferior, the ratio is fucking insane, like Indians at least know they suck a little bit but New Yorkers can barely spell their own name and they can barely fit a cube into a square hole without their nigger pizza greased peanut brains exploding yet somehow they think they are the greatest thing to exist on this planet since Jesus Christ because they have a bunch of sloppy kikes running around raping kids in tunnels and the whole city smells constanly of shit and piss and rotting garbage. Yeah what a great city. Anything you can do in New York you can do fucking anywhere, retard, you RETARD do not EVER speak again.
>>2850746Roadside Station Marine Dream Nou is located 1 minute away from Nou Fishing Port while Buc-ee's is located in the middle of nowhere.>At Kaniya Yokocho - Crab Market Street - there are mountains of bright red Benizuwai Crabs (red snow crabs), caught fresh in the waters off Nou! Buy your crabs direct from one of the crab boat stalls and enjoy them right on site! This is the largest market of its kind on the Sea of Japan with nine different vendors selling their freshly caught crabs.>Browse a wide variety of fresh fish caught both locally in the Nou Region and throughout the Sea of Japan. In the summer fresh rock oysters are a special treat. We can grill them up for you to eat on site along with a variety of other freshly caught seafood.http://www.marine-dream.net/english_top.html
>>2850934>American Service Plaza :|>Japan Service Plaza :O
I've been an expat for many years in many countries and travel all the time. But travellers in general just love to talk about themselves. Sometimes it feels like they're in an interview, like they're a celebrity. They sit their smiling and answering your questions.I travel and live abroad because I'm an inherently curious person, but many travellers travel because it is a way for them to spend very little money but present themselves on social media as a baller. Travel is just a vehicle to build social status. Try talking to a traveller, ask them some questions about themselves and then stop.Their eyes will dart left and right, they'll shift around on their seat but they'll never think to ask you a question. For many travel influencers, social interactions are an opportunity for you to get to know how interesting they are.I prefer expats in general. They're more rowdy, down to earth and based. At least a larger percentage.
>>2850298I don't hate you, I disdain you. You're stuck in the wagecuck mentality, and like every wagie, you want to believe that your paycheck is some kind of huge flex that other foreigners envy. No. We don't envy you, because you are not free to go and do as you please. You are afraid of the Third World, and you use your money to shield yourself from it. That is why you are stuck in some globohomo-tier hotel or apartment, working some lame-ass online job, and coping with conspicuous consumption to feel better about your life. Apart from your geographical location, your life is no different from the average wagie in fucking Des Moines, Iowa. And just like those Iowa wagies, you dislike talking about overseas travel because you are ignorant of the world. You'd rather talk about sportsball, women, politics, hobbies or some other normie-tier topic of conversation.
>>2850802You think you've identified how expats live wrongly.>if I was an expat, I'd take AirAsia flights and explore on my time off, I'd learn the language and integrate, I'd live like..But. You never will. You failed to acquire the skills and the education that is demanded around the world. I identified it, and the life I wanted and capitalized on it. You failed and I won. Now you're left fantasizing about how an anonymous expat online ACTUALLY has a really vapid and normie life abroad and how you're actually really intelligent and deep... Just not intelligent enough to live here. You'll experience my life in my city a few weeks a year and then return to toil for minimum wage with people who talk about TV shows and celebrities. While me and my mates are clinking glasses and talking about our travels and rich adventures. We think of people like you when we appreciate our lives.
>>2850833I've been past your expat bars a time or two in the course of my travels. A bunch of balding white men with soft saggy bellies who gather in the afternoon to drink overpriced poison, gabble like geese for hours and flirt with sassy plump 38 year old barmaids. Lame and boring. Meanwhile I'm out here with a flat belly and a hard face, living a real adventure life in some random places where nobody expected a foreigner to show up. Packing my bags on a regular basis to head out somewhere, anywhere. I'll only know where when I get there. No cell service, no support group, no home base, no income. You are a penned steer happy in your comfy stall; I am a rangy coyote who makes his bed as he goes along. Your goal is an easier, more comfortable life; I seek greater degrees of challenge and hardship. It makes perfect sense that you want nothing to do with me, because I make you feel like an emasculated, overfed steer.
>>2850900>Meanwhile I'm out here with a flat belly and a hard face, living a real adventure life in some random places where nobody expected a foreigner to show up. Packing my bags on a regular basis to head out somewhere, anywhere. I'll only know where when I get there. No cell service, no support group, no home base, no income. You are a penned steer happy in your comfy stall; I am a rangy coyote who makes his bed as he goes along. Your goal is an easier, more comfortable life; I seek greater degrees of challenge and hardship. It makes perfect sense that you want nothing to do with me, because I make you feel like an emasculated, overfed steer.Lmao. Is this copypasta?
>>2850900>I've been to an expat bar so that must be you in thereIt hurts me to think I use the same board as this brainlet
Its history speaks for itself. Food is good. Lots to do nature wise. Huge city. Why isn't it a premier tourist destination? I mean I sort of know why but there's other muslim countries that get lots of touristsAlso, whats worth seeing there besides obvious stuff like pyramids?
>>2836959>Tanzania and Nepal have made it clear how "political stability" can vanish overnight, leaving a traveler caught completely off guard.Lmfao. Are you the same scared pussy faggot in the Myanmar thread? It would take all my willpower not to bully you if we ever met
>>2834387>Morocco is the new EgyptHoly fucking retarded
>>2849505It 'works' but not without issues. A quick search for 'Uber Cairo' will bring up more.
>>2849401>What/where do i eat?bumpShould i only trust my hotel?
>>2849509I am simply stating facts. Unlike you, with your false Internet bravado, I've travelled to multiple places under Level 4: Do Not Travel warnings with very high levels of tension in the air. Like an ambush or firefight could pop off at any moment. A time or two I did begin to walk around and see what I could see, but my intuition is spot-on, and when it tells me to get the hell out of dodge, I listen. As a foreigner and an intruder in a dangerous region, it is very stupid to play Mr. Macho Tough Guy around a bunch of real tough guys who have slit throats of sentries and tortured prisoners. Rather, you need to play Mr. Cold-As-Ice who is completely unbothered by all the menace in the air and betrays no emotion beyond a mild curiosity. Interesting folks here, huh? Let's get back in the truck and get the hell out of here.
I am from central Europe and in need of place for short vacation - end of december probably 30th till the 10th of January (some prolongation possible). I want it WARM. I dont want it too far away to have to fly for >10 hours etc. I like museums, history and architecture, temples, beautiful nature, "language learning", salsa dancing, techno, all this jazz. I heard even Greece now is <10 degrees and it gets dark at 4PM? DESU early darkness is the most depressing for me. Warmest and comfiest place in Europe or not too far away i can visit in this period if i hate darkness and cold temperature? 15 or 20 degrees is fine for me, just to have sun and longer days.Places i am interested in visiting but are either too far away or too cold:- Vietnam- Thailand again- Colombia- Peru- Greece- Turkey- India- JapanThings i consider more seriously for this period however still far away:- Morocco (Tanger to be exact)- Kenya (Nairobi or Mombasa)
>>2850382You should have booked already if you want to take a vacation starting the 30th
>>2850642I think i will go to Malta and Sicily. Few days "city-break"
>>2850382as far as temperatures go, greece is two countries. the mainland and the north, and the south peloponesse and the aegean islands. My brother is in Syros and it had 15-18 degrees during the midday. I comparison Thessaloniki peaked at 10.If you want something in europe that will be sunny and not really cold then Malta is a good option too
Do people live on boats? I'm getting a bit bored of live and want to mix things up. I've always liked the idea of 'working remotely' from a boat, and just sailing around Europe from port to port.Is this feasible? How much of a world of pain would I be getting myself into? I'd be looking to sell my house, buy a country shack to store shit and retreat to, and just be a man about the world.
>>2847606To buy and build out a boat, you need money. Lots of money. /trv/ is full of self-proclaimed crypto gorillionaires, but strangely, none of them can afford a plane ticket overseas, much less a houseboat capable of blue-water navigation.Best option would be to find an online community who is specifically looking to live this lifestyle. Make connections and take a voyage with somebody to learn the ropes and see if the boat life is for you. I'm a diehard landlubber, so it's not something I've even considered.
>>2847606Don't do it anon: my buddy tried this in Florida/Carribean and financially it set him back years. Difficult and expensive to perform the constant maintainance required while living on board.When he threw in the towel, it took forever to sell and then only at a steep loss. You'd be better off living near the sea and renting/chartering a boat as desired.
Boats are a pain in the ass to maintain and always syphoning large amounts of money. The bigger the worse and European ports will drain your wallet more than any hotel. You can do what you want, but considering you'd need to sell off your stuff you're not in a position to do it properly like the decamillionairs cruising around the med.It doesn't sound like you have a whole lot experience with boats, neither the fuck you money to just throw cash at whatever problems comes to you.So to me it sounds retarded honestly to make a move like this in your position, if you're serious first rent a boat for a few days or join a boat trip and talk to boat owners to see what it's like, cause i guarantee you they all have painful and expensive stories.
