>>2854379
I find myself in the interesting position of having 6 weeks off starting in April, and a decent amount of side hustle money I earned from splitting wood. So I can go pretty much anywhere with no restrictions. RN I'm thinking circle the globe and do Spain-Morocco (hiking)-Philippines(diving)-China(fuck knows what I'll do here), 10 days in each. But I could swap any of those out with literally anywhere.

>>2854379
Plan is to get accepted into law school so I can quit my job and just travel long term until it starts. Problem is I may have missed my chance for yet another year. Holy fuck I just want to be free but I'm too retarded so I'm stuck working a bullshit job where I need wait 5 months for a week of PTO. Holy fuck I just want to fucking quit but everyone says it's a bad idea without a plan afterwards (even with 50k in savings) so I guess I'm just stuck unless I can get into grad school.
FML

Off to Japan for the fourth time soon, gonna see that Hokkaido snow. Never been to the snow before, it doesn't get that cold in my part of Australia.
Hoping to go to Nepal and India in the latter end of the year but I'll see if Nepal has another flare up after the March elections, lest it turn into an utter shit show.

>plans
A month in Thailand mid year, a month in Vietnam end of year.
>dreams
Meet a Vietnamese sugar mommy and get a green card marriage.

>>2854379
I'm going to Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo, and Macedonia. Really hope I kiss some girls in the hostels

>>2854379
I am going to Japan for a few months starting in May. Gonna bum around in hostels and live off of strong zero and onigiri.
I'm just hoping my Japanese has improved enough since going last time.

>>2854379
>traveling to a few new countries
>traveling to Antarctica

I'm going to Brazil, and I have a long layover in Panama City. From my research, Panama looks a hell of a lot more interesting than where i am going (Goiania).

>>2854379
I plan on getting the money they keep talking about and going wherever the heck I want. Maybe road trip the US. Maybe go to england. Maybe try egypt or thailand. No matter where I go it's got to be better than here.

>>2854435

Why are you going to stay in HOSTELS in such impoverished shit holes? You know they're just gonna be filled with poorfag manual laborers right? If you can't afford €10 a night for a basic place then what the fuck are you even doing

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>>2854379
My grandmother told me to stop traveling thousands of miles away while she's still alive

I'm going to live in Myanmar and just focus on self-improvement - fitness, reading, meditation. Hopefully I'll find a cutie.

>>2855725
Even shitty hostels cost more than 10 euros a night in Europe. Some people's sense of travel pricing is stuck in 2015, I swear.
>>2855761
Why Myanmar and not Northeast India?
>>2854438
Every time I think of going to Japan, I see posts like this and think "fuck that". White slobs pathetically eager to fit in by speaking the local language and cramming together in a dorm with other white slobs whose shoes reek to high heaven. I'd rather visit Tajikistan desu. The landscape is a whole lot more desolate, but the people are tough and hardy, not soft, sheltered and ridden with weird cartoon obsessions.

>>2855766
>Why Myanmar and not Northeast India?
Surprisingly good question. I was in NE India last year. Meghalaya was incredible but for Nagaland and Manipur, you need a Protected Area Permit and give them your itinerary. There are lots of places near the Myanmar border you're not allowed. All the restrictions totally ruin the travel experience for me. It's Nagaland that I'm most interested in in NE India.
I learned Burmese a few years ago, I've forgotten much now. The country still remains largely isolated, so you can experience a sense of adventure and wonder.
But as soon as they remove the PAP for Nagaland, I will literally buy a ticket.

>>2855767
How'd you rank the seven sisters for /trv/ experiences? Any stuff really stand out as unique in these places?

My lease ends in August so im training to become a bicycle nomad. Going to cycle west coast to the east coast of the usa then cycle down into Mexico and the rest of South America.

>>2855810
>How'd you rank the seven sisters for /trv/ experiences? Any stuff really stand out as unique in these places?
Meghalaya is beautifully clean, it's like 97% non-jeet. The jungles are incredible and there are thousands of steps everywhere going through jungles, I got shredded after a few weeks exploring the villages by foot. However, it's full of Indian tourists, I only saw 3 foreign tourists the whole time I was there. Many of the Indians are from Calcutta and they have a well-deserved reputation for being extremely noisy and inconsiderate. Fucking horrible people to be around. Shouting on their phones, blasting music with their doors open. I had to move hotel once just to get away from them. The native Meghalaya people see them for how bad they are too.

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>>2854379
Chicago in March.
Beijing, Hiroshima, Gifu in Cherry blossom season.
South Korea in fall.
Been thinking about going to Europe at least once but I want to go somewhere safe with great transportation.
>dreams
actually go on dates with women and go bar hopping. I had women ask me out but too much of a wimp.

>>2855766
>tajikistan
Is it better than uzbekistan or krygyistan? Should I see all 3 or skip some? Where do you fly in from?

Its weird how almost nobody here travels in America outside big cities.

>>2859408
Because there's nothing interesting about driving past the same copy paste McMansion suburbs and highway strip malls over and over and over

>>2855761
>live in myanmar
>live
how do long term visas/permanent residencies work there? from what I've seen it seems like one of those countries you have to either start a business, work for an international NGO, or marry a local.

>>2854379
work in an airline checking people in for travel all year, prollyfly to tashkent in the winter for le silk road tourism

>>2855725
I'm staying in hostels with good reviews and social vibes, and like the other anon said its more expensive than that

I might try to go to Japan this fall. More likely early 2027. Can't decide if I want to stay in Tokyo for a month, or ski for a month.

Going to do Quebec this year though.

What is Munich -> Vienna -> Budapest like? Really considering it next month

>>2854379
plans
>Utah in February (family event)
>finish uni for good in May
>off to China for 1-2 months
>go back for graduation ceremony in June
>somehow land job in uk or China during this time
>maybe go to Greece with the family
>start working
>go back home for Christmas

dreams
>break up with my neet gf and find a better one

>>2859773
Sounds like a good plan.
Vienna is wonderful if you're into history
Budapest is incredible, definitely party while you're there

>>2854379
>Your plans for the coming year
>suffering

>Your dreams for the coming year
>winning the lotto so i could actually /trv/ instead

>>2859408
After going overseas, I don't want to travel America anymore. Everything about it reams on cost, and you get to experience so little. $40 in transport expenses in India encompasses three entire months of travel on an almost daily basis. In America, that's the cost of a train ticket from Raleigh to Salisbury and back, where you can spend about four hours walking around an utterly boring and lifeless downtown surrounded by miles of sprawl before hopping back on the train and returning to Raleigh, watching small hills, the occasional river and unremarkable forest pass by. That's what a daytrip looks like in America, and NC is one of the few states in the country where such a daytrip is even possible.

>Plans
I want to go to Japan in June for about a week. Was thinking of going to Hokkaido but I'm not sure if Osaka would be better.

>Dreams
Meet a cute girl who loves me for who I am and bring her home to keep my house and bear my kids.

Butt holes :D

exploring appalachia all year long AGAIN
this year I hope to see the ozarks, ny state, pa, wv, tn, ky, nc, georgia, and alabama

I don't get why you would fly to the third world to be around brown people unless you are really that desperate for sex.

>>2859773
I would do Munich -> Innsbruck for the awesome cross-mountain train ride, then Innsbruck -> Salzburg to see an amazing town settled right between the mountains, then Salzburg -> Vienna and continue on your way.

>>2864765
Because I don't want to be around ornery, armed white people and their goddamn "PROOVATE PROOPERTY" signs hogging up every acre of land for miles and miles. I also don't want to deal with the costs & responsibilities of owning a car, after years of cruising around America in increasingly aging and unreliable vehicles. I want to eat tasty food and shower in my cheap hotel room and walk streets full of life and go on $1 bus rides into the mountains every day. Oh, and the cold rain. Fuck the cold rain. Give me warm sunshine and brown people instead.

>>2854381
>fuck knows what I'll do here
China has some amazing shit, don't listen to internet idiots. Hiking in Chengdu up that big ass mountain is good, can recommend

>>2855737
My grandma said stuff like that and lasted another decade. You'll know when it's getting close lol

>plans
To graduate with my HVAC certificate.
>dreams
To visit Japan, Korea and the Eastern U.S.

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>>2866017
You certainly raise a good point about how exclusionary and unwelcoming the locals and culture can be. I think people move to such areas to get away from people, and a lot of the natives are pathologically suspicious of outsiders, but essentially my motto is "I am here for the land". I evaluate the land objectively, and view the people and signage as background noise. I also imagine the potential, if people learned to cooperate a bit more, on what it could be.

Yes, it is a TON of driving, but I suggest spending 2-4 nights in one place so you aren't running ragged, and spacing out your destinations so you don't have much more than 4 hours of driving per day.

And no, you can't really see the area without a car (I mean you could rent one). But I think the area is genuinely beautiful and I am devoted to evangelizing it.

The cold rain ends in May and then it's usually hot and sunny for the summer. Just very humid too, a bit less so at higher elevations.

Have YOU visited Appalachia yet, frens?

Planning to either do a SEA trip, or go to France for next New Years
It all depends on if I can get a gf by then or not

>>2867069
Better start planning for the "not" option, bud

>>2867063
June is great, because it is always cool and dry and clear after the thunderstorms sweep through. The bugs are more of a problem if the humid hot weather arrives early and sticks around, with no thunderstorms sweeping through.

Nature only needs to be left alone to restore itself. And that's what's happening all across Appalachia. But there's a reason why a region so close to a hundred million East Coast dwellers feels so barely visited. The hostile attitude toward tourist outsiders is deliberate.

I want to go where I am treated best. As a long-term traveler, I don't want to impose my presence on people who don't want me around. My last trip through West Virginia I only spent one night in a secluded spot under a power line, the only flat space I could find that wasn't claimed by a landowner.

Sitting comfy in an $11 hotel room somewhere on the other side of the world, I fail to see the appeal of road tripping Appalachia, unless you've never been up there.
>>2855843
Are you leaving any possessions behind when you set out? Will you be towing a trailer behind your bicycle? IDK why you'd cycle all the way to the East Coast. Cut inland around Los Angeles and then head down the west coast of Mexico from the Colorado River delta.

>>2869551
>Nature only needs to be left alone to restore itself.
wrong
they totally fucked up the soil by logging it and they should be amending the ph and the fungal balance so the scrub fucks off and you get normal trees back

>I want to go where I am treated best
eh I agree they aren't the nicest, but I go where it's the prettiest and if it was just about natural beauty it wins + so many people are just afraid of it (outside of the smokies) that you get it to yourself if you go to places that aren't the most popular at the peak times.

> My last trip through West Virginia I only spent one night in a secluded spot under a power line, the only flat space I could find that wasn't claimed by a landowner.
no trespassing signs were not a thing back around the civil war and we could change the system in the years to come

>I fail to see the appeal of road tripping Appalachia
remoteness, beautiful shapes of curving rock, land, trees, flowers, flowing water in different colors
also lots of skilled artisans making paintings, woodwork, blown glass, watercolors, etc.

>plans
Biarritz and the Pyrenees in July, Guadeloupe for my bday+new years at the end of the year. Might do Las Vegas and Death Valley around Thanksgiving.

>goals
Find (another) nymphomaniac gf to replace my old one that I lost. Save up $130k in the bank (sitting at $94k currently). Play 100 hours of live poker (sitting at 20 hours currently). Learn to sail (have lessons booked this weekend but the weather might be shit). A few other things but I'm forgetting.

>>2869765
Beauty becomes monotonous when it is so uniform, a rumpled blanket of green hills stretching to the horizon. A semi-arid landscape OTOH provides contrasts of green and brown, lush and barren, hill and dale, which provide variety and make for interesting landscapes. The ugliness of so much of the Third World also makes its aesthetically pleasing landscapes stand out all the more, and after enough time you become appreciative of any peaceful public space (like this shaded stone wall on the riverbank behind some old houses).

At the moment I'm accepting that the next four months will be spent on the ground in South Asia. Return to America in July is anticipated, but at this point I've no motivation to level up my economic status by being a better goy and paying more taxes to ZOG. Luxury does not make me happy, and in fact manifests feelings of profound boredom/discontentment, so slaving away in the hope of attaining luxury is pure futility. 'Sides, my ticker is often aching and sometimes beats out of sync. Eventually it's just gonna fucking stop. I'm not gonna be the ant who works tirelessly to enrich the colony in the hope of enjoying its rewards, only to get randomly squashed by the foot of Fate. Living free of obligations and embracing esoteric states of mind help me accept the fact that I am one of billions of people destined to pass on without leaving a trace of their existence upon the world.
>I don't know why, know why, everybody wanna die rich
>Can't take it with you when you go, never saw a hearse with a trailer hitch

>>2869888
the hills have different shapes and colors in different parts of appalachia

linville gorge is a different beast to savage gulf which is very different from letchworth gorge and red river gorge doesn't look like any of those

the shapes are always different the twists and curves are unique in each gorge and you will see local clustering where nearby gorges have fractal symmetries but go a couple hundred miles and the shape of the rocks and the hills will change

>>2869888
>embracing esoteric states of mind help me accept the fact that I am one of billions of people destined to pass on without leaving a trace of their existence upon the world
>Insists on blog posting in half the threads on this board

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>>2869947
We're all anonymous here. It's like pissing into the sea, but when you gotta go, you gotta go.