>>2865009
Because:
1) I know the world is going to be a hell of a lot different than what it will be when I am retirement age of 55-65
2) When I get to retirement age I most likely won't have the same energy I do as of now for the things I want
3) I understand my savings and stuff will have lower buying power compared to the salary I make today
4) more physically active than I will be at retirement age

Also, because since I am WFH why not do it somewhere I enjoy?

>>2872024
There's a lot of exaggeration on this board about how everyone in Third World countries is happy and horny and playful 24/7, waiting for you the White God to step off the plane so they can lavish you with attention. That's not the case at all. Life is often a lot more difficult in Asia, everything is more shoddy and more frustrating and more mired in age-old problems.

However, the "I hate my life, everything here sucks" complaining culture that is so prevalent in America - as your post illustrates - is mostly absent here. Sometimes getting away from all those sour, self-loathing people is all that is necessary to have the time of your life. But others discover that they cannot lose themselves in hedonistic leisure activities. They feel profoundly alienated from the Good Time Charlie crowds. If you've matured too much to enjoy shouting drunkenness and lascivious flirting, don't pine away for muh heckin lost youth. Go your own way instead.

>>2872187
same logic as me, also wfh at 29

>>2872566
He wasn't making any claims that life for Asians or Whites in Asia is always easy. He also wasn't claiming to be the a white god in anyone's presence. Why are you interpreting his post falsely? Do you refuse to empathize when you post?

He claimed social opportunities were better. That can be interpreted in many ways. Somehow you chose the most ugly, cliche interpretation - the loser back home doomer mindset. Why do that when someone is explaining how great something is? Yeah he used a metaphor of being stuck in prison but he is positive posting. Don't tread on positive posters unless you're going to interpret their posts honestly and provide honest or original criticism.

>>2872024
I've also experienced more social opportunities. Their beauty and any mysticism they hold is amplified by being in some random corner of the earth. Meeting Japanese friends and being invited to the bath house with them. Going for motorcycle rides to nearby cities with solo girl travelers in Vietnam. Chatting with a pack of 50yo boomers from Korean on a boys weekend away from their wives. I've had some cool spontaneous experiences in the west, though they've all been with Asian men or woman. Curious. It all happens so naturally and more frequently in on trips across seas.

>>2872566
Apologize if you mentioning all the doomer stuff was just to say "Hey dude, don't sweat it. People on this board exaggerate non western countries as being so much better but they're actually quite bad"

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>>2870928
the white male zoomer obsesses over their broccoli hair the same way that the black male obsesses over sneakers. it's just the result of growing up being raised by a single mom that focuses her attention on hair and shoes.

>>2865217
Yeah everyone says how bad it would be if Google deletes videos why? Its sacred? Can we not just delete half of the the ones where its a guy with a stick camera walking silently?

>>2868791
I am conservative but I wonder if we should just have a "jubillee" of sorts where everyone with over a million dollars of stocks just loses 90% of it and we give random Robinhood accounts 10K. Silly idea but we need to wealth redistribution SOMEHOW.

>>2868981
Holy shit Sidetrack rules, however he makes 10000 videos about Nevada. What other countries or the east coast needs is a guy to do that.

Do you guys think mood pieces for each city would be a good idea? I went ahead and filmed a ton of various cities and was thinking of syncing each up with a fitting instrumental song, just to have some nostalgic piece dedicated to every place I've enjoyed. I was also thinking to pair each video with a travel guide for the city, but idk if anyone would care for it

>>2871244
I’m a 35 year old white guy

Bald men look like cancer patients and are repulsive to women. You don’t need to be a certain age to see that.

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I used to dream about doing the going abroad and getting drunk think. But small brained american vids where he gets drunk have cured me of that. He even speaks some japanese but the whole time it's just repeating some gaygay, ladyboy, sexu, or some other retarded shit. Ok I'm sure it's funnier when drunk but still. Maybe with English speakers it's better but I'm a 4chan chud let's bee real
But I still wanna travel and walk around. Larp as blade runner while walking the streets at 3AM

It's been years since I've smoked but if I was gonna do it again, I would absolutely bring it to a national park and do it. Rotting inside your hotel, airbnb, or your local homeless person gathering spot sounds miserable, unless it was a huge park, like central park or boston common. The thing about weed is that makes average shit seem profound, so if you sit around and just listen to music or watch TV you will feel retarded the next day, but if you actually know shit about geology or american history, a national park actually IS profound. Much better time spent IMO.

>>2868379
No one is really going to care if you smoke on the balcony of your AirBnB. Just make sure there aren't any cameras the owner set up to catch you, but even if they are, all they can do is kick you out and bitch to the company.

>>2868452
>Get a cart vape for your room they produce almost no odor, the high is weird
Bad idea, the chinks who make the liquid use some sort of oil-based thing that can cause serious lung damage.

>>2868379
>Legal recreational marijuana tourism
>Ctrl+F Germany
>Phrase not found
technically selling is not legal
but you can still buy high quality stuff everywhere and there's no punishment for buying
owning and smoking in public is fully legal & accepted

since legalization quality changed for the better
because many people nowadays want to get rid of their legally grown surplus

the guy near my house went from having one shitty variety
to offering like 20 strains with different THC / CBT content
stuff with mixed in artificial cannabinoids, fent or other bs is basically unheard of now, again because there's so much genuine surplus from (semi) private growers

>>2868379
>>2868452
>>2868462
>>2868467
The weed pens (aka carts) that give you the "weird" high are because a lot of them don't have the full spectrum of cannabinoids they only have THC and (sometimes) CBD in them.

If you don't smoke very often you might not be able to tell the difference desu. But when I was smoking a lot I could definitely tell. If you get a cart that says "full spectrum" (and a lot of rosin/resin I think are full spectrum by default) then it will pretty much be identical to actually smoking weed but with the added benefit of not being too smelly.

Distillate are the ones where they DON'T have the full spectrum iirc. In general if you get some weed cart that is flavored most of those don't have the full spectrum.

If you're in a hotel/airbnb you can definitely vape a cart because with a cart you're taking 1, maybe 2 puffs, 3 max and you're done vs smoking a joint which burns continuously and emits smoke vs vapor.

I would strongly suggest AGAINST using edibles/tinctures/creams or any other non smoke/vape method. It's way too easy to overdo it and noobs get oneshotted by edibles all the time because they think it's less intense because you're not inhaling anything. Edibles are actually more intense usually.

>>2872926
tinctures are great you can take it almost anywhere you just have to figure out roughly how much liquid in the dropper is a low vs high dose its more like a quarter filled dropper for me is a low dose and 2/3 full is a high dose and 1 1/3 dropper is like an extreme dose if I want to watch a long movie or do a hard hike or something.

You just have to start slow with tincture and be patient with the effects.

Should I do Tokyo or Kyoto this fall? I want to go for about a month in late october to late november. I've never been to Japan.

>>2871963
Tokyo is probably better unless you're really into temples and shrines. Kyoto is a nice town but honestly the temples can get pretty repetitive and the tourist overcrowding makes it worse while Tokyo is much more varied in what it has to offer

>>2869299
December is too late. Youre playing with chance that the seasons decide to end late.

>>2871963
Is early October too early?

>>2871963
Kyoto deserves a week imo. I spent 3 days and I don't think that was enough. With a month, you can spend some time in Osaka, and go into the Japanese Alps or Nikko.

>>2872193
Everyone told me Paris is a shithole and I'm basically putting my life in danger but I ended up having an absolute blast and walking everywhere at night with no issues.
This board is full of gay retards.

>>2872193
You were just doing it wrong

>>2872200
Not sure how I am supposed to do it right then. What eat 2 dollar 711 or some street slop, sleep in some <300/mo place, and push all my remaining money to cheap whores? Then try to flex on trv about it? No thanks. I can just live abroad and travel while I enjoy my life living comfortable.

>>2872201
And that's your problem. You lack the willingness to learn how to live well while traveling in developing countries. There's no substitute for spending lots of time and learning from your mistakes.

>>2872196
Same but i think it was everyone shitting on paris so my expectations were rock bottom.

>>2872190
I dont get it but i like the name Arkhangelsk and I didn't know that Northumbria was still a modern region of the UK
also why is china there

is this some autistic /trv/ board game

>>2872684
Lol, I'm half German fuckwit.

>>2872695
>Terrible idea, you're stuck with that piece of shit at campsites that are often 5km+(if you're lucky) from town center. Budget seems bait-ish but at that point what the fuck is stopping you from flying/using trains and staying at hotels?

I don't intend on staying at campsites lmao, I'll park where I please. I will be very rarely entering cities/ town centers, due to my disinterest in busy public places. If absolutely needed I can compromise and take a taxi.

>Budget seems bait-ish but at that point what the fuck is stopping you from flying/using trains and staying at hotels?

I prefer the countryside, flying/using train's removes most of that aspect and limits me to only cities and bigger towns.I will stay at some hotels, but nothing too lavish.

>And then you would rather not drive in the one part of the continent where you'll see next to nothing without a car? What the fuck.

I meant getting the actual caravan up there, I'll rent a car. I'm trying to keep the cost down.

>>2872737
>the actual camping / driving will likely be the cheapest
in most of southern and central Europe you will be limited / forced to dedicated camping places, charging on avg 30-40€/night (that's outside of high season and city camping)
while in Scandinavia it's wild camping and free caravan places are much more common
gasoline prices are fucked everywhere rn, so doesn't matter that much

I was not aware around such, if there really are wild camping spots I may have to take the caravan up lmao. Which would be the best route, via ferry or through Russia? I do intend to visit Russia during my travels, but that depends how restricted the Finnish-Russian border is.

>genuinely avoid Switzerland though
it'll eat through your budget like crazy

Had a friend who went, said it was beautiful. I could get round the price, I can raise the budget slightly. I got 180k (pound) in inheritance, so I've only dedicated so little to my Europe Travel budget.

>also a Caravan will limit you mostly to outside the cities like >>2872695 said


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>>2872757
>Which would be the best route, via ferry
no you can just drive via the Øresund Bridge from Denmark to Sweden
>or through Russia?
i'd really recommend skipping this for now
borders are not entirely closed, but heavily restricted

there are plenty of maps for where wild camping is allowed in Europe

>I can raise the budget slightly
Switzerland will be roughly double what you'd pay in e.g. Germany
it's not impossible, like if you do the grand tour route in 3 weeks, it'll be maybe 4k€ instead of otherwise 2-3k€
so not super bad but a noticeable dent in your budget
avoiding restaurants will already help a lot there


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>>2872770
>no you can just drive via the Øresund Bridge from Denmark to Sweden

I never knew there was a bridge... fucking hell, thanks alot dude you are a life saver.

>i'd really recommend skipping this for now
borders are not entirely closed, but heavily restricted

Touché, I'm hoping the political situation clears up soon. I would like to visit both Ukraine and Russia.

>Switzerland will be roughly double what you'd pay in e.g. Germany
it's not impossible, like if you do the grand tour route in 3 weeks, it'll be maybe 4k€ instead of otherwise 2-3k€
so not super bad but a noticeable dent in your budget
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Iran is gonna destroy everything in sight as revenge to send a message: "You want to fuck with us? Ok, by Allah we are going to fuck with all your friends, we won't be cucked like Saddam" and I really can't blame them.
Retarded Americans are worse than Asians when it comes to losing face, Trump is so high on Adderall (shabu) that he will never admit any wrongdoing.
I don't know when I'm going back home. But I will definitely avoid any flight with a stopover in Doha or Abu Dhabi.

>>2867629
Don't worry, I actually plan to take flights that go over this region, there is bad blood between Russia and Georgia, but Cucktin has been stuck in Ukraine for 4 years by now, there is no way he is going on another front. It's the best plan and this region is actually comfy as fuck.

>>2871812
You can get some great hotel deals in the UAE right now. I'm seeing a 4-star beachfront hotel in Sharjah going for barely over $30 per night. I would absolutely take advantage of the low flight prices and hotel deals if there was any valid reason to. However, there isn't. UAE's topography is fucking boring, a sandbox with a beach. About the only thing to do there is take incel walks and talk to random pajeets who are also incel walking for lack of anything else to do.

I need to catch a flight from Ireland to Australia soon, should I go through Turkey?

>>2871888
nevermind, just booked a long ass flight through Air Canada, is it a good airline?

Flight prices are JACKED all the way through summer thanks to gigantic fuel surcharges. Most one-way, one-stop itineraries from Asia to America are now upwards of $1000. Turkish Airlines in particular has become downright exorbitant. Best Asia to America deal I could find was Starlux from Bangkok to LAX for $518 on a single day in mid-July, so I impulse bought a ticket because prices are only bound to go up up up. Even Xiamen Airlines, formerly offering $350 fares from KUL to LAX, was now asking $750 minimum for all possible flight dates. Second best was Lufthansa from Delhi to Denver for $650, but I didn't snap it up in time, and when I checked again the price had jumped to $800.
>>2871951
Airline names are only meaningful inasmuch as their itineraries and prices differ. I couldn't care less about the screen or the meals or other petty shit like that.

>>2872687
>Highest biodiversity density in the world
one of the highest, not the highest

that title usually goes to
>Yasuní National Park
other contenders, albeit larger regions
>generally Tropical Andes
>Sundaland for marine life
>Cape Floristic Region
>Madagascar
and here you could add New Caledonia as well, which is mainly included for it's endemism

for megadiverse countries
>Brazil

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>>2872690
so there are a few cool hiking and cycling trails throughout the whole main island
also a few canyons you can decent
the hikes range from okay to really interesting, depending a lot on how deep you're into botany and plant taxonomy...

the mangroves in the south west were unimpressive / disappointing
big disclaimer here though, I've already been to the Everglades, Sundarbans, Pichavaram and DRC Mangroves National Park
so I've seen a lot of mangroves already

the cooler parts are in the south, the scrub landscapes (again, only REALLY interesting if you're into botany, otherwise it likely gets boring after a few days)
and the rain forest on the whole north east coast

>>2872687
>comfy beaches and subtropical weather.
keep in mind that it's relatively expensive

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>>2872687
In Japan, it is known as "the island closest to heaven"

>>2870527
White women are slowly becoming the new Black women (I'm Black myself). I tend to go for brown these days, but Latinos are second place behind Blacks for general retardation and I'm good on Desi women since the last one I dated ended up thotting around. Maybe I'll try Filipina or Kazakh.

Great place to be in your 20s
Never got mugged, and the only part that really smelled of pee was over by the blind center by the flatiron because they take the guide dogs out to do their business on the sidewalk.
Hard to be bored there. Having a time out ny helps find fun cheap things to do

>>2870458
NYC is fun to visit for an American because it is one of very few places in America where the streets are lively and full of stimulation. You can see a greater variety of phenotypes and hear more languages in NYC than anywhere else on Earth. And it's always been a mutt soup of characters who are harsh and jaded, so your tired old "it used to be great, but the newcomers ruined it" line holds no value.

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>>2868839
It has many of the country's most recognisable cultural icons (Central Park, etc), its finest and most distinctive architecture (early skyscrapers, for example) and some of the oldest buildings in the United States (the oldest being from the 1650s). Its huge population, varied boroughs and the constant buzz of a city that never sleeps make it an attractive place to visit, and repeatedly, even if you wouldn't choose to live there.

NYC is one of the only real cities in America.
>It's just a larger version of any northern city.
No. Most cities do not have one square quarter mile like the average block in Manhattan.

>>2867009
>the 30 year old travel planner
>spends six months planning for a one week trip
>"I watch vlogs to help me plan my travels!"
>"hey Chat GPT / anons / Reddit what's a good plan for this country?"
>crippled by trip anxiety until every room, bus ride and tourist attraction is planned out
>always goes to the same places that other travel planners recommend
>his experience is so similar to every other tourist's that it is not even worth talking about besides "yeah, it was good"

>>2867006
moving to a place with "black" in its name

>>2868863
Moving somewhere permanently is an entirely different thing from just taking a short vacation

>>2867006
I'm visiting this summer and I'm so excited
Definitely wouldn't want to live there though, I think it's probably a place that's better for tourism than living

Mountains - even the small ones - make a place worth visiting. Flatland places all suck.

Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, with steam trains, static displays and models. Golden is ok. Georgetown Loop scenic railroad is a short but spectacular ride and there’s mine tours nearby. Avoid Black Hawk and Central City, once historic mining towns ruined by casinos. Otherwise anything away from I-70 west in the mountains is cool. It helps to have a car but there’s some buses into the mountains.

Check the catalog before creating a new thread, you stinker >>2868562

If you are a white American, I do not recommend it at this moment in time. Mexicans are extremely turbo butthurt for multiple reasons, and its only getting worse.

Only consider it if you are a fluent Mexican Spanish speaker, some sort of tan, and willing to "go native".

>>2872624
white people will do fine in the wealthy areas like polanco.

>>2872624
Wow so fragile

I enjoyed the state of Guanajuato. It's quiet, peaceful, conservative, and the food is good, and its only a few hours from mxdx.

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>>2874429
And a spring Mt Fuji from an earlier trip

>>2874430
This in June? Heard hydrangeas mainly bloom in June in Japan.

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>>2874402
Try eating a slightly upscaled slops like jonathan's or hoshino cafe instead.

Also, fuck it. Spend an entire day in mandarake nakano and weeb off the entire day

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>>2874439
Oh shit, yeah you are right actually. It was very early July, but yeah same diff.
I visited Kawaguchiko twice that year. Saw flowers in this pic, so brain jumped to spring. But no, I now remember how horribly hot it was hiking this mountain for that view.
Went there for the Lavender blooming which was also fantastic, pic included. Plus fireworks, which was a really good show.

>>2874441
>Spend an entire day in mandarake nakano and weeb off the entire day
I did this, it was nice.