Vagabonding

Vagabonding will change your relationship with money and travel by showing you that long-term life on the road isn’t reserved for rich people and hippies, and will give you the tools you need to start living a life of adventure, simplicity and content.

Are you independent? Most likely, you’ll answer this with a resounding no. The majority of people depends on things. We depend on our location, because our job is there. We depend on our job, because it’s where our money comes from.

Especially when it comes to financial independence, we only see it as this rare reality for the two extreme ends of the spectrum: those who have absolutely nothing, and those who are rich beyond their dreams.

But long-term travel is a dream that’s accessible to anyone in 2016. Just think of Charlie Sheen in Wall Street. Even in the 80’s, his idea that he had to make a ton of money to live his dream of riding a motorcycle across China was ridiculous. He probably made enough money to do that in a week. Heck, you could clean dishes for six months and have enough for a plane ticket, an old motorcycle and a few weeks worth of food.

Our relationship with money makes us see travel as a luxury, which is why we think of “a vacation” just like we think of a new car or an expensive TV – it costs a ton of money and is a one-time thing.

But tightly packed, stressful, calculated flat fee holiday cruises with a fixed budgets provide none of the rich experiences travel is really about. If you think there might be a vagabond inside you, the first thing that’ll have to change is your relationship with money.

Here’s how.

If you’re like most people, you work to make a living, and then reward yourself occasionally with a vacation. Vagabonds, however, work only to travel. They travel solely for the sake of traveling, and therefore earning money is part of their mission to earn the freedom to do just that. So vagabonding doesn’t start with picking a departure date at the travel agent or arriving at the check-in counter at the airport. It starts with saving money, poring over maps, figuring out your destination and your why and finally stopping to make excuses and putting off your journey. Vagabonds are like children in many regards, they look, they learn, they encounter their fears and change their habits on the go. This attitude isn’t something you’re handed with your passport at the security check. You’ll have to develop it over time, and planning your journey is a big part of that. And unless you’re a trustafarian, who never…