>>2706922
I would never move to southern Arizona but northern Arizona is super nice, I loved Flagstaff but it's not really a desert as such, more alpine and apparently snows a lot in the winter. That's more of a vibe for me, and northern Arizona has a lot of deserty looking things, like Monument Valley which is essentially in Utah. So if I were you I'd choose northern Arizona, it has all of the scenery of the south but it's not nearly as balls-to-the-wall hot.

I agree with the other anons saying New Mexico, to be honest I liked it much more than Arizona, precisely because it is kind of weird and quirky, with basically the exact same scenery. Santa Fe and Taos are both awesome little towns.

>>2706922
Prescott is nice

Arizona is a cursed state. Save yourself, OP. If you're poor, you will be put with excrement and South American/native trash. If you're homeless or out for 15 minutes you will die of heatstroke. Phoenix, as a city, is okay. That's all. Go west? Mexicans and new constructions. Go south? Homeless people and trash scattered around. Generally, very ghetto. Go north? That's where the luxury is. Never been east but I imagine that could be bad, but the ONLY places to really be at is either Scottsdale, paradise valley, or downtown. Downtown Phoenix at LEAST has all the architecture, high rises, statues, whatever you want, it's all there with the added benefit of less homeless and nicer people. I went to sky harbor myself and I had a good time waiting, the guards were helpful and the airport was clean. Very nice view of Phoenix from there, might I add. If you're Californian though please go to New Mexico or generally just fuck off. We don't need more of them.

>>2711162
>>2711186
You can live in the North for cheap if you're willing to live close to a mine. Of course the water is probably contaminated and you have to hear blasting and chinese all the time

>>2707003
I lived in Tucson for 6 years and I have to agree, The only upside was Bookmans, Eegee's, and the outlet mall. It's a pretty miserable city and I never want to live there again.
Small towns in Arizona are "nicer" in that people aren't as awful but they have even less things to do if you're not into horseback riding.
>>2707199
ABQ Was nice 20 years ago but the crime rate has skyrocketed and everything I enjoyed when I lived there for a month is gone now. The infrastructure is also absurdly obnoxious and I swear their city planners were stoned when they designed their road system.

>>2710696
Cruises are for old people. Dunno how old you are. If you're young i wouldn't do it. Even if you don't mind doing fuck all on a boat all day. Majority of people on board will actually be 60+.

If you're into medieval looking towns than i would certainly consider just staying Czechia for a week and then hopping over to Vienna. Prague, Brno, Liberec. Kutna Hora, Cezky Krumluv are all worth visiting. Would be wise to rent a car for the smaller cities. Unless you don't mind riding a bus. Bratislava is close to Vienna. Easy trip by train. So you can combine it with Vienna. Vienna is the superior city imo.

Central Europe is big. So if you've only got two weeks and wanna go by train you might wanna consider just focusing on a few cities. I mean you could do all of them but it's a lot of travel time.

Wroclaw> Krakau> Ostrava>Brno>Vienna> Bratislava
or
Prague> Brno > Vienna > Bratislava> Budapest

I would probably spend a couple of days in all of these cities other than Bratislava. It's Autumn so it won't be great weather. But it won't be freezing either.

yuropoors want to be "central" european so hard

>>2710696
don't do a cruise, unless you like it specifically
look up croatian seaside, albania, montenegro, greece... plenty of fun to be had there
Even Turkey has a splendid southern coast, the waters may still be hot in october

>>2710696
I've got similar plans for January / February.
My tentative plans are Zurich > Vaduz > Innsbruck > Salzburg > Vienna > Budapest > Brno > Cesky Krumlov > Prague.
First time in Europe. I'm going for the snow specifically. I don't really have any interests in cruises, as others have said it seems like it's just for old people who just want to laze around. Seems like you'd get way more done if you went the land route.

>>2710696
if it's not a cruise geared towards younger crowds you're gonna be stuck with families and middle to old aged couples.

you'll only dock for a little and be subject to the cruise ships itinerary I assume. Not really enough to explore on your own. I haven't been on one in years but you're basically on a floating hotel with thousands of other people so it can get pretty dirty even with all the constant cleaning going on.

The only redeemable part of the cruise ship was the 24 hour pizza bar.. I remember going once as a kid and never again so I assume even my parents thought it was a shit deal.

>>2708770
OP here i am back, i had a great time.
Feel free to ask if you want
I mostly stayed in de wallen
Was almost lifechanging to me, i had never seen a city so amazing.
The first day i walked into the a coffee shop, smoked a joint of lemon haze and had the best high of my life
Make sure you know the difference between indica and sativa. All strains of haze are sativa, so energizing. Smoking indica is not good for me, it makes me lethargic and paranoid.
I went into the bulldog energy early friday afternoon, its a beautiful place and staff is very friendly, i talked a lot with the tattooed dude at the counter.
If its a weekend night, avoid the ones directly on the canals as they are very crowded, enter the side alleys and find a quieter place if you want

P.s. dont pay the taxi from airport to city center, its expensive as fuck while taking the train is super cheap and easy to do

>>2709475
I also just got back and it was a shithole with nothing to do. Then again I don't smoke drugs.

Also going in 2 weeks
>land in Londonstan stay for 2 days
>train to Amsterdam stay for 4 days
>train back to Londonstan 1 night
Anything I should know about taking the Eurostar? Also what's the best castle I could visit that would take a day trip to reach?

Amsterdam returns what you give it tenfold. Give it love.

You have to know, why you want to go to Amsterdam.
You want weed? Great, try the coffeeshops.
You want shrooms? Great, try the headshops.
You want beer? Great, try Amstel.
You want hookers? Great, try the red light district.
You want party? You'll find it.

Amsterdam also has one of the most beautiful sights a city can deliver.
It is almost impossible to have a bad time in Amsterdam.
Just never try to drive around with a car in Amsterdam.

>>2711641
Why did you go to Amsterdam in the first place?

>>2711758
>I saw Akiba before it was completely shit.
>2003
The basketball court was removed in 2001 though, newfaggot

>>2711651
I have no friends to go travelling with and I'm not too scared to go alone.
But I don't have the money.

>t. 22 y.o virgin loser

>>2712213
If you really want to travel, you're gonna make it happen instead of sitting around with your thumb up your ass complaining to anons on a Tibetan basket-weaving forum. My first travels were day trips on a bicycle as a teenager with no money, and since then I've steadily increased my travel range. I've met Ecuadorians in South American hostels who funded their travels by smuggling goods across national borders in huge backpacks. They were very good-natured guys, even gave me a ball of opium wax. However, I didn't take them up on their recommendation of a smuggler village on the edge of the Amazon jungle as a great place to visit, kek.

>>2712240
I live in bumfuck nowhere, midwest USA. A day trip on a bicycle would get me to some corn fields and not much else.

I need to move to get a better job but I've been applying ever since I graduated and haven't found shit yet. Even then I'll not have enough money to travel for a few years at least. And that's ignoring my student loans, where almost all of my money from my part time wagie goes.

pain

I don't have anyone but I go anyway
I try and make hopeless sperges come with me because I know for me travelling and getting out of my sperg comfort zone was the best thing I ever did
But I've had one nigga who really put me off and was unbearable the whole time. I'm only inviting cute girls now because somehow when they are inevitably insufferable the whole time it's not as bad

>>2708841
they aren't all blackpill dipshits
a huge proportion are literal russian psyops

>>2711351
why tho? it's not like we are even that big of a place, better off using cash on facebook to get trump elected

>>2708839
I know a girl that does this. She goes to a place for a specific event she is into, attends it and then spends the next couple days holed up in her room. No, she is not getting railed by strangers because she is beyond ugly, I just don't get it

>>2711621
I went to vegas a few years ago and was in my hotel room 20 hours a day

I gotta take it pretty chill for a day or two after the initial travel if it was long/stressful
But I don't really mind if "jet lag" or whatever fucks me up a bit, I'm used to having a fucked sleeping pattern. As long as the place I'm in isn't extremely sketchy at night I'll go out anyway even if I slept all day. Nightwalks are based and I just walk round and take photos anyway I'm not really tryna do activities within business hours or whatever

Providence RI
you can ride a motorcycle, dirtbike, ATV, etc around the streets with the Dominican kids
downside is that the city might catch you, impound your vehicle and crush it with an excavator if they deem you a nuisance

>>2707824
How far did you have to go?

If it's a dual sport, Baja is an answer with the weight of Boomer tradition behind it

>>2707162
I want to do a dirt bike tour in Australia. Iceland too.
For street bikes, maybe the Great Ocean Road.

>>2707824
Weren't you the anon who posted the story with a couple pics in the Thailand general sometime last year?

>>2709212
Been to China 4 times. One thing that surprised me was that basically everything relating to tourism has English signs. Lots of young people speak English. It's easy to get around. Just get a VPN and a SIM card off Amazon before you go.

Shanghai is super easy to get around with a nice train system. The city is clean, has a nice mix of historical sites and modern megacity Blade Runner style stuff, and lots of great food. Beijing has loads of historical stuff, but lacks the cool megacity stuff. Xian has the famed terracotta soldiers and was a capital of China for a few hundred years. There's loads of historical stuff there. It's basically the Rome of Asia. The food is pretty unique too. A mix of Chinese food that you might be familiar with, spicy stuff similar to Sichuan, and Muslim cuisine.

Chinese national parks like Zhangjiajie and Huashan are absolutely incredible. Huashan is easily accessible by train from Xian (I think it was like 30 minutes?) plus a quick taxi ride. Both parks look like those crazy paintings you see in ancient Chinese scrolls or on the walls of Chinese restaurants. They're gorgeous.

Chinese people are super nice too. There aren't a lot of western tourists, and since Chinese people are very patriotic, they absolutely love when westerners visit their country. It makes them feel like they're on the same level of power as the US. I had people come up to me and ask what I think about China. Everyone was incredibly satisfied when I said I love it. Some people even tried to pay for my meals.

Other people mentioned Japan and Taiwan and whatever. Both are nice, but insanely overtouristed. Japan especially. People are just fucking burnt out with tourists everywhere. Plus no matter where you go you'll have crowds of people from your home country pushing you out of the way to get selfies.

>>2709223
>China has a much larger language barrier than most of the traditional "first trip" locations.
this is a fucking lie. Basic Chinese is not difficult to learn at all especially if you stick to pinyin.
I think the learning curve to fluency is steeper than other languages, that's why people think it's difficult, but if you just want to have basic conversation and do tourist stuff it's about the same difficulty as any other language.

>>2712076
I didn't have the overtourism experience you're describing in Taiwan at all. Outside of Taipei I barely saw any other tourists outside of backpacker hostels. Even the chang kai shek monument was pretty chill. You're not wrong about Japan though.

>>2710521
So question for ya, if I intend to go to China and fuck around the countryside, stealth camp, and walk from village to village, what should my strategy be?

>>2712085
>that's a fucking lie
Who do you think you are fooling? If English is your native and only language, getting around Paris, Bangkok, or Mexico City will be significantly easier. Have fun with that in Beijing. I'm not saying you can't, it's just not as easy for foreigners
>just learn Chinese before you get there for your two week vacation, bro!
lol
lmao even

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My first trip was to China - Korea - Japan - China again trip when I was 19. And this was just before smartphones came about, so no translaters or anything. Computers of course available. Been 4 times back, but not with these alipay things. Always pay cash for everything.

Anyone saying it's hard are useless and just go somewhere else than /trv/. It's annoying, might take time, but nature is beautiful, tier 1 & 2 cities easy to navigate. If I had to take a train somewhere I didn't know to say, I would have someone from a hostel write it down. Nowadays smartphones make it trivial.

It has it flaws, but it is it's own thing. I like it. Can't say about the current situation. Would like to go back though.

>>2711185
Jackson, MS

The Woodlands, TX

Seattle

>>2712128
Too close to Houston

>>2711185
Tell us what your looking for. Mountain town? Desert oasis? Coastal?

>>2712052
let's go, you and me bro, tefl over there right now. zero hours finance call centre wageslaving here and i can't take another interview with a 50 year old toad of a hr woman

>>2712052
other options include
get a job that includes lots of travel as part of the job
get a job that allows you to work remotely (make sure that includes working in other countries)
become a contractor and then you can do whatever you want, e.g. work on a contract then take a few weeks/months off before the next one, etc etc
i have done all of those things

Bong living in Aus for 10+ years, take the working holiday visa, if your skills are in demand you’ll get sponsored by a company. Plus you can actually earn decent coin vs tefl jobs.

>>2710741
>avoid stds/getting robbed?
>Staying in the Candeleria.
lol, you could have picked a better place to stay if you wanted to avoid getting robbed.

but while around there, you could visit the quinta de whatever house that belonged to simon bolivar. the neighborhood macarena is nearby and also pretty nice. i think there are some historic sights on la septima and it's interesting to walk around anyway. you could also check out the emerald market.

>>2710329
>I don't think it's that people don't want to go there, but that the legal requirements for their salary is too high (for foreign workers it's something like 10x minimum wage). They wouldn't pay a foreigner that just to teach English.
It's only really asians that do this I think. Countries like Colombia just don't have the emphasis on education that east asian societies do. If you work at an elite private or international school you might make ok money but those places probably have high standards like wanting a masters degree or higher. Plus latin america doesn't have the learning curve asians do. The alphabet is the same and the pronunciation is roughly similar in most cases.

>>2702595
>>2706747
>>2706774
Thanks for the info, got my Bogota ticket, more of the trip planning is coming together. I love the idea of seeing small towns outside the city but can you get a bus between them without going back to Bogota, like from Salento to San Augustin to Ipales, or more potential midway stops?

I like the pics of this Archeological Park in San Augustin, wanna see a coffee plantation around Salento but don't know where to start, seeing a wild Tapir or some shit would be nice, any more advice on those kinds of things and how to get to them without a car?

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I want to visit somewhere on the Coast of Columbia, I am fluent in spanish but I don't know where to go

>>2689609
>>2698488
What the fuck are you even talking about? Literacy rates in Colombia are higher than the US. You're more likely to find the retard you're describing in Chicago than in Medellin.

Public education is free and requirements for teachers are fairly strict. Plenty of public universities and SENA is a free, nationwide technical school. Even private universities are not so hard to get into/pay.

>>2711854
Airplane food isn't bad. I quite enjoyed most of my dinners on United domestic business & Polaris. The worst I've had was on Air Asia domestic but that's an economy budget airline.

>>2711854
yeah fuck eating airline food the times i flew i only ate pringles and cans of soda

>>2711854
....yes?

>>2711890
Yes, reheated food at 35,000 feet is "good". First Class or not. You're a retard. Kek.

>>2711890
>>2711896
Poors straight up cannot even fathom a decent life lmfao, everything must be sour grapes to them

>non-weeb
>akihabara
>pokemon center
Nigger you what?
Take them to an onsen.
Fish market.
Golden Gai
Jazz bar (if they are so inclined)
Sneak away with your dad and hit up a soap

Why not check the theatres? Noh might be a bit too much unless you're into japanese culture, but maybe some Kabuki performance? Even if you don't understand the words, they are very performative, and certainly unique. Or maybe you could see a concert? Could check if there are any gagaku or koto performances for example. And the train system in Japan is very efficient, you could go to Kyoto for a day or two quite easily. See Kiyomizudera, kinkakuji, ginkakuji, and go back. Or maybe see Fuji?

>>2709031
This is true.

Why does it feel impossible to find a good gym in Japan?

>>2714308
>anon, why are you putting on a condom? I thought I was your girlfriend
y-you too

>>2714315
just buy 2 cans, you're not poor right?

>>2714501
Sure what are you looking for
>>2714500
Coming back to where? You mean going back to my country where everything costs 2x more and I cant even find a job there? Where I'm not forced to use Japanese? Hmmm

>>2714503
There's pull up bars and tracks everywhere. Plus I've seen some decent tiny cheap gyms with free weights

>>2709555
Yeah. Sorry. This ain't that kinda travel board. You might wanna visit /x/.

>>2710689
Sounds about right but for the most part I think you can be out at night without issue. Few sketchy characters from what I've seen but once you know any problematic spots to avoid you'd be pretty good after that.

>>2710523
I was just in Orlando and there were nogs everywhere, EVERYWHERE, even worse than Jacksonville

>>2710962
isn't jupiter where the rich live?
is there any cheap beach towns anymore??

>>2711385
Jacksonville is extremely segregated

Venice. Right on the Gulf.