Travel is something many people can’t get enough of. There is an urge to see more and more places, to go as far as possible, and to come back to share our experience with our peers. In fact, the question isn’t why travel, but rather how to be able to do it more and for longer periods.
Depending on how many days of paid vacation you can take from work, you can either use them all at once or divide them into two or even three vacations per year. If you can’t take paid leave days from your work, you’ll have to ask for several days off every time you want to go on a trip. If this isn’t an option, you may consider a change of career. There are lots of jobs that require traveling, so all you need to do us to find those jobs and to make sure you qualify for them. You can be a travel agent, a flight attendant, or a sales representative. You can also work as a travel writer for National Geographic or another renowned travel publication. However, this requires that you know how to write and you have an innate talent of finding the right words.
The alternative is to find work you can do from anywhere in the world. Working online will enable you to travel as much as you want, provided that you have access to an internet connection. Blogging and vlogging are two of the things many people are quite successful at. You can start a travel blog to show people how to visit different places in the world. You can earn money with your blog by displaying advertising or by selling tours, accommodation and place tickets. There are many affiliate programs that cater to travel bloggers, so you’ll only need a steady flow of targeted traffic to start making sales.
To travel more, you can decide to cover areas that are closer to your base location. Instead of wasting time and money on long haul flights, you can drive to the most famous tourist locations in your neighborhood. This is something you can do even during weekends, should you find it difficult to take days off of work. After you cover all interesting places, museums and tourist objectives in your state, you can move on to a neighboring area to see what you can find.
If you have to fly, research the best itineraries, so that you can cover several places in one go. If, for instance, you wish to see some Greek islands, research ferry schedules and create an itinerary that would cover three or four islands instead of spending all your time on Santorini and Mikonos.
In terms of budgeting, you should know that there are accommodation options for virtually any budget, no matter how small. You may even use couchsurfing to find free accommodation. House sitting is another way you can have a home all to yourself for one or two weeks at a time. You only need a strong desire to see the world to take advantage of all these opportunities to travel.
