>24yr old>go to japan for 2nd time>first time solo, this time with 2 good friends>start off in tokyo>roadtrip to nagano nature>adventures ensues>sleep in a tent for the first time >laugh hysterically with friends during trip, never laughed this much in a week>never had this much fun in a holiday>roadtrip to kyoto and osaka>osaka nightclub, close to pulling 9/10 japanese girl but cockblocked by her friend>flow state ensues, effortlessly making genuine connections everywhere i go>fuark ... time is going too fast>9 days are up>fly back to amsterdamComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2648655You wouldn’t last a day in my hood
>>2648655your insecurity is showing
>walk around in osaka minami>american couple>the very large guy goes HEY WHERE'S GALA GALA??>no idea sry>OH WELL FUCK YOUbe happy you got to have those memories op, it's only going to get downhill from here with the amounts of tourists coming in, especially from the land of the free
When you see such sights, you're unable to ignore the world that is out there. We all get into such a routine that we hardly give a second though to what's across the ocean, much less what's down the street from us. And life is finite - I think traveling, in some ways, reminds us of our mortality, especially when trips are coming to an end. Everyone would love to spend life seeing these wonders and meeting new people, but nothing pushes the hard realities of life in your face more than vacation being over. You have to work. You have to maintain your responsibilities. And that's ok too - but it's tough to ignore the world waiting to be explored.And as you get older, it's more difficult to break away from those responsibilities. I had a real opportunity to go live in another country for 3-4 years, but ultimately my family and I decided against it because the logistics were just going to be a nightmare when it came to uprooting our current life.
>>2646702that is awesome anon, glad you had a good time during your travels, yes, post travel sadness is real because you realize how much fun you had on your trip and look back on it fondly, the good news is you did it and have those memories always, the best advice I can offer is start planning your next trip so you can have another great experience.
Semi nomad. How would one go about getting real work (not like WWOOFing) without the rigamarole of applications, fake interviews, and penis inspections. If anything I would prefer real interviews.My ideal is showing up to a farm in Amish country and then working until the sun goes down. I don’t want to take up something where the first few months i’m just “putting my time in” before i’m allowed to do something. How did you find or build your employment that works well for you.
>>2643629Farmworkers are lazy. LMFAO. What a load of crock.Beet harvest in North Dakota is a major moneymaker every fall for all sorts of traveling folk. You work twelve hour shifts, either day shift or night shift, 7 days a week until the harvest is complete. Harvest work is definitely in my radar to top up my travel fund for another six plus months in Asia next winter. My van's gotta last the summer though...
>>2644325>put down address you grew up in/friends place>put shipping address as PO box>"hey anon why are these different?">Oh I've moved here and a friend offered me his place till I got a feel for the area so I just have a PO box for most things right now till I get my apartment settled."Wow... so fucking hard
>>2642564get remote work
>>2644329Is that the kind of back-breaking work that turns you into a cripple at 40?
>>2644384Better to go paperless and avoid getting mail in the first place. A PO Box does NOT legally qualify as a domicile in any jurisdiction. So knock it off with the USPS shilling. Getting an ID requires verification of your physical address in virtually every state nowadays. South Dakota is the only exception, I think. You can spend one night in a campground there and have it listed as your official domicile on your driver's license.
how bad is frontier airlines? I know it's at the bottom of the barrel but honestly I don't really need much when I travel.
>>2649253They are the worst budget airline I've ever flown on globally. Be prepared for them to cancel flights, blame it on the weather when it's clear skies, not comp shit because of that, and then rebook you a week later.
>>2649253You can only find shittier airlines in Africa and I'm not joking. ULCC's in SWA and Inida have higher standards and are more precise than Frontier.
>>2649292SEA *For fucks sake why do I post when I'm drunk
It's essentially a flying bus, the seats are basic, the space limited, you're nickle and dimed for extras.If you just have a backpack with a few items and need to get from A->B they are fine.
When did it become such a dump? I remember visiting a lot in the 2000s and early 2010s and while it wasn't in it glory days it wasn't the total shithole it is now. Attracted a lot more people too.
>>2647858>>2647850It's hasn't really gotten better but a couple better casinos have opened. There's also more concerts there than in the past. Not saying the city has gotten better but you'll see more people going down for the weekend than in the decades prior
AC has always been a shithole, it's one of the only beaches covered in drug syringes and cig butts. it's garbage because the overflow from trenton and camden, IE the portals to hell, moves there and infests it. It's not a city so much as a boardwalk adjoined to a slum, at best it's a den of vice offering smoke-clogged entertainment for a weekend to tour buses full of retirement home boomers looking for a dopamine hit on the slot machine floor. it's vegas for people too poor to travel to vegas. no one with decent intentions would ever set foot there and at best it's a novelty to christen your passage to adulthood. for a more specific answer, it's always been shit in the same way vegas has always been shit, but the demographics are let's say on the decline with the black plague, and when trump's casinos went bankrupt it put the final nail in the coffin. new jersey is a weird place, some parts of it are so wealthy you can't even buy a sandwich if you aren't a millionaire, and just a few miles down the highway it's a nigeria-tier slum. the nice places are highly gatekept to keep the growing refuse out, so the trash accumulates and putrefies in the low barrier to entry areas. some parts of the state the minimum house price is $2m, other parts you can buy a house for $20,000 even today. there's a reason for that. AC is just camden with casinos.
>>2647984Yeah as a Jersey fag I find myself and other zillenials going there moreso then from I gather people would 10 years ago. They’ve done a decent job with their concert venues and I see a lot more people in my age demographic than I would ten years ago when I was in high school visiting with my parents >>2648207North Jersey cities like Paterson and Newark are grossly exaggerated in terms of their blight, many companies and unis are headuartered in Newark and unless you are going way into inner city it’s not bad. Paterson is just beaner tier poverty and unless you venture out main and crooks street into the more melanin enriched areas you will be fine, some of the best sand food in the country is there and many adult oriented things that travel janitors don’t like can be found there too. Meanwhile places like Trenton, Camden, and AC are ireedeble hellscapes with the added misfortune of having filthynogia influence that region. The whites are on par with the joggers in certain areas of south jersey in terms of trashiness
>>2648251>They’ve done a decent job with their concert venues and I see a lot more people in my age demographic than I would ten years ago when I was in high school visiting with my parentsYeah a big thing is the price of venue fees have skyrocketed in Recent years and Casinos will straight up pay you to perform their. A lot of Concerts that would be somewhere in New Jersey and Philadelphia end up in Atlantic City.
>>2647349It's New JerseyNew Jersey is a dump</thread>
Planning to go to Australia with a working holiday visa. My goal is to work there and make some money to see the country and then use it as a jumping off point to go see south east asia. Am I delusional for thinking I'll make money to travel while in Australia? Any thoughts on what work i'll be able to do or where I should stay?
>>2648035Basically this in a nutshell, you can earn good money easily but Australia is the sort of place where you can spend it all so quickly too, a night out sets me back $200, drinking with the boys adds up quickTakes discipline if you want to do the right thing and to be honest your social life will suffer badly saving up.
>>2648006Farmers dont employ aussiesThats why they force foreigners into it, they dont get award wages. They make them sleep on site in sheds, charge them huge rent, charge them water and electric and charge for wifi. At the end of the week they end up with a hundred dollars or so for backbreaking hard work in the hot sun
>>2647290you can make more money labouring in the city than you can on fifo these daysunless you have good qualifications that is
>>2647768>And if you stop working, you must leave Australia within 28 daysnot true>>2647504nobody's making $2k a week fruit picking>>2648006>min wage is $30 an hour for a pickernot true I was on $27/hr when i did fruit picking, others on different farms were on less>>2648035>>2648115yeah OP keep in mind that despite the high wages in Aus, everything is a lot more expensive than wherever you liveyou can save up money but you have to be strict with your spendingthat doesn't mean your time there has to be boringyou can get drunk very cheaply on box wine, $10-15 for 4 litres of the stuff at most bottleshopsif you stay in hostels this is what most people do when they drink so you'll be in good company and make lots of friendsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2648023That's the wage in meme dollars...$18 USD per hour is all right for unskilled labor that any migrant worker is capable of doing.>>2647497>>2647768Since you are living in a shack and eating communally cooked slop, or else living in some bumfuck nowhere outback station, you'll save 90% of your net pay if you can avoid the booze and the ciggies.Who gives a fuck what other wagies think of you. You'll be off to Southeast Asia to live a life of leisure for the next six months, while they're stuck working to pay the rent.
Hello /trv/. I'm planning to visit India sometime in the near future.My purpose in going is to discover the history of the subcontinent and learn about the Hindu religion.I've heard Varanasi is good for this, any other recommendations regarding India?
>>2649004yeah rishikesh is nice. Just avoid crowded areas and Rajaji National Park is also good for Leopard sightings
>>2649224>e best. Also better if you explore nature and wildlife more than culture and history.>t. IndianI want to try top tier Indian pussy too, but they're all in Canada and have an undeserved sense of smugness of not being one of the 99k/100k ugly ones.
>>2649044Nothing you can do to prepare or avoid. Maybe you get nothing more than wet shit, not everyone has bad experiences.
>>2649224I'm sure some can be nice partners but FUCK Indians are genuinely the ugliest race on the planet, I'd rather have no gf at all than be with a filthy hairy unibrow curry muncher eww yuck
>>2648826genuine advice don't go in with stereotypical views.respect others and you'll be treated the same way.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdywnUuviqgplease don't expect everyone to be nice. retards exist everywhere.hope you have a good time cheers
Are any of the pacific islands worth a visit? Are they pretty much all the same as each other or are the Melanesians, Micronesians and Polynesians noticeably different? It's a rare part of the world I don't know much about
>>2648949Vanautu doesnt look that shitholeish. At least jot as much as i expected. Are they as bad as "scholars and doctors" in other countries? But the population is so small i am sure you will bored within a weekTell us more anon
>>2648825Holy shit get the fuck out of here you pedo boomer.
i've been to vanuatu and it was greatvery picturesque islandslocals very friendly, especially on the smaller islands where you might be the first foreigner they've seen in a long timevery unique culturesa very simple way of life but actually far more like ours that it would appear at first, you'll get what i mean if you go there
>>2648962The beaches/islands in Vanuatu are delightful, but the cities are pretty run-down. Also the cities in the French colonies are full of dickhead Frenchmen. Keep in mind this is from the perspective of an 11 year old, were I to go there as an adult I would likely find interesting things to do. Isle of Pines in New Caledonia is GOAT in terms of tropical beaches and snorkling/diving (to an 11 year old at least)
>>2646312Fijian Indians are noticeably cuter than normal Indians though, I guess it's the blood mixing over the yearsFor instance miaz>>2646340I've only ever been to Vanuatu, Fiji and Tonga, definitely preferred Vanuatu, the others were cool too though I guess.
Yeah, it's that thread again, motherfuckers.I used to be a weaboo, but now Japan kind of disgusts me. Too westernized. Last time i was there was 2016 and I have postponed my comeback because i can't figure how to avoid Stacy and Dylan doing a selfie at Senso-Ji and whatnot.What are the places in Japan that are not ruined yet? And i don't mean some random farm in the Niigata prefecture. I mean actual places with people like Nagoya or Sapporo maybe...
>>2648530Ok it seems that I will properly skip the festival this years
Just been to Akita last week. Hardly any white people there, locals were asking me in very poor English why I came there.Same goes for all north Honshu.
>>2648475>go to the tourist spots>WHY IS EVERYTHING CATERED TO TOURISTS
>>2644780you will never be Japanese.Japanese cringe at the sight of you.
That guy in the photo is literally a 6 at best. They are looks matched.
>read all the hostel stories on trv>book a bed in a dorm>there are 3 people in the room>one sleeping other two is preparing for going outside>they quickly leave the room after saying hello to me>go to common area>a few people staring at their phone and two of them playing pool together>sit somewhere with a beer >nothing happens
>>2648991>hostel>with gf>indiaif not bait, just fucking why? I'm all for hostels but india of all places hotels are so cheap it's not even worth looking at hostels.
>>2648991Fake story but an important lesson to not take women to a place where you will be physically or socially mogged.
>>2648991Like >>2649001 said. You stayed in a hostel when hotels are 10$? Sucks you were dating someone who confuses spirituality with whoredom (pro-tip, any chick who is into spirituality is loose).
>>2649001he made that shit up retard
>>2649009insecure cuck. your theoretical relationship can't handle other men around you?
Tax free income, 8 weeks paid leave a year and what appears to be very low costs of living on even an English teacher’s salary. Is it THAT bad? I’m old/married so don’t care about the social scene btw.
>>2648980>I’m old/married so don’t care about the social scene btw.Just move to the midwest then, at least you'll have changes in weather
>>2649014sounds like they know exactly how indians should be treated. Europeans could learn a thing or two.>>2649034>at least you'll have changes in weatherAssuming he wants that. Coming from Europe, I absolutely hate temperate climate
>>2649014Thanks for the very detailed response mate, appreciate it.>>2649014Less throwing on the towel, more considering why I’d continue working in a country that’s currency has tanked against the USD and punishes single income households, no tax incentives/ability to file jointly and skyrocketing housing prices like the rest of the world. This would also get me my travel fix, even if it’s boring. I’m not looking to fuck or date- just money, and they must have some cool local activities (falconing? Desert BBQs?) you can get involved in. My concern would be the heat, what appears to be a lack of public transportation and perhaps lack of nature if you don’t have a car.
>>2648980I've seen it said numerous times that it's the most boring country in the world to live in. I haven't lived there so I don't know but the frequency with which it gets mentioned has to mean something.
>>2649014I was only there for two weeks but yes fuck all to do and possibly the worst driving standards on the planet. Money very good There really are two driving cultures. in Anglo and most developed countries it is “here is a set of rules and we all abide by them mostly”. The rest of the world is “fuck you”. In Kuwait it is with bells on
Going to be in Pacific Beach, San Diego next weekend for a wedding. What things are worth checking out while there?
You could go anywhere in the whole world, from the amazining oasis of Peru's atacama to the highlands of chad to the deep jungles of the congo to misty shard mountains of China... and you pick San Diego/trv/ is dead... American cities aren't "travel" it's disney world, same for European and Australian and New Zealand cities. This isn't a travel thread. You aren't traveling. You're consuming.
>>2645556Biking through la jolla to del mar some of the richest neighborhoods in the US, watching tourists get hit by the wave wall, sea lions, chill at the dog beach, SD Zoo, check out Torrey Pines/Blacks Beachidk a weekend isn't much time
Trolley tour from oldTown is fun The museums at balboa park The zooSeaworld Bike rental from the catamaran hotel and ride along the bay this is in Pacific BeachCheck out some of the restaurants and bars alone the beach Top of the Hyatt lounge at the Manchester Hyatt 40th floor at nightTry to surf or boogie boardVisit the desert out in East CountySee the Padres if they’re in townTake a harbor cruiseSee the waley house supposed to be hauntedTake a ghost tour Definitely try the Mexican food it’s the best you can get
>>2647226Please kys yourself already with that bullshit
Rent a bike for sure. That's an awesome ride on the boardwalk. Go check out the Coronado Hotel. Rent a kayak at La Jolla Cove.
Can anyone ID this cove? My gf and I are looking for cool coves to travel to and swim to.
Looks like it's this https://www.rockhouse.com/In jamaica
dumb instagram bitch coveYour gf is a dumb NPC bitch.
>>2648215check out algarve, portugal
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I can' t think of a place on earth I want to visit less than Jamaica. It's all black women and cruise ship passengers. The crime is insane. Literally everyone you meet is trying to scam you.
I'm writing to you from Wuwei, a forsaken city in China where misery reigns supreme. Life here is nothing short of a waking nightmare—a relentless onslaught of poverty, oppression, and despair.Imagine streets lined with dilapidated buildings, their crumbling facades bearing witness to the decay that consumes us. Every corner harbors the stench of hopelessness, a suffocating reminder of our dire circumstances. And amidst this desolation, the insect-like behavior of the population thrives, each individual consumed by their own struggle for survival, oblivious to the suffering of others.The government's iron grip tightens with each passing day, snuffing out any semblance of freedom or hope. We're treated like mere pawns in a twisted game of power, our voices silenced, our dreams crushed underfoot.But I refuse to surrender to this fate. I refuse to accept that this is all life has to offer. I yearn for escape, for a chance at a better tomorrow. My eyes are set on America or Canada, where I believe I can find the freedom and opportunities that elude me here.If you have any shred of knowledge or advice on how to break free from this hellish existence and make my way to America or Canada, please, I implore you, share it with me. Your words could be the beacon of hope that guides me out of the darkness.
>>2648349oh that sweet, sweet chinaman cope. nobody wants to live in your authoritarian, polluted hovel. deal with it.
>>2648430Today, I went around Canada. I saw no white people. Only heard Punjabi and only saw Punjabis. Shill racism against le non-whites is a joke when the "white" countries you shill for don't exist anymore. It's just BRICS vs. BRICS but giving tax money to Israel at this point. I don't think bragging about living in a country that prefers foreigners to its own people is the brag you think it is. China is for the Chinese.
>>2648279>Japanese: Bongwtf they truly are sick people
>>2633015news flash, you can't do that at all. food in the USA is nearly unobtainable for the poor. GDP per captia/PPP isn't indicative of GINI.
>>2632890OP in case you're serious the best possible bet for you is applying for a working holiday visa to Australia, then start again from there. Good luck
how did you like poland?
>>2647024Why not? Poland is safe.
>>2647024Poland is safe and chill.
>>2647024A /k/oper? You'll fit right in. >>2647059>it's the Japan of EuropeHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>2646824They only do that because they needed a non-communist holiday that fell on the day that they celebrated the October Revolution.
>>2646717I went to Bytom last year and had lots of fun. Not the tourist area of Poland for sure but my grangranpa was born there (when it was Germany) and it was very interesting to find all the locations of the old photos of him. And the apartments he lived in (which I found in old adress books). The town basically looks the same as before WWII. The residents there even didn't renovate anything so it's really stuck in time. I could find lots of German writings on walls like "Bäckerei". The people living there today seem to be rather poor as there is not much economy going on there. All the coal mines shut down. Some corners were really shady and looked like I'm going to get robbed or even worse. Just to find out that there were friendly and kind people everywhere. And food and beer are very great. Definitely gonna visit again.
Let's say I were to go from the west coast of the USA, stop in Hawaii for a few days, then fly to NZ. How long would it take to get a good feel for NZ and not feel rushed? Is two weeks enough?And also is it worth it to tack on southern australia (and tasmania) for a month's journey?
Hawaiianon here. All flights to New Zealand are long, and even if you stop in Honolulu to "break up" the flight it does not get any shorter or easier. HNL to AKL is 10 hrs the last time I went and unpleasant in any class of service.If you want to come to Hawaii, come. If you want to go to New Zealand, then go on the most direct flight you can because they're all around the same length of time and you might as well just suffer once for it
