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Mr. Blonde · 05-02-2008, 11:32 PM

This is my next big goal in life, cemented last month inside my head. After a little over a year in "real life" after returning from my first journey abroad, I have decided that....it sucks. Pretty bad. Not only do I not really know what I want to do with myself, I refuse to "stick around" until I find something I can "settle" for, which is what most people seem to do after college, if they go at all.

I have already obviously seen quite a bit of North America, although i'd love to see more of Mexico and Canada, but those are relatively low priority, due to proximity. I spent 4 months in Australia as most of you know, so that continent is covered, although I'd like to live there someday...it's fucking magical down there.

In 4 months, barring any catastrophes or something great happening to me that makes me actually want to stay, I will be moving to Korea for a year to teach English in Seoul. I will only be working about 30 hours a week, so hopefully on weekends and breaks in between school (if they have them), I plan to travel to Japan, Thailand, China (although beebs thought there might be a visa issue....Ironic, any advice on that front?), and anywhere else I might venture off to. That should take care of Asia...after that, if I find myself not wanting to return still, I am tentatively thinking of catching a flight to India, and was MAYBE thinking of backpacking my way through the middle east to get to Europe, but that might not be a good idea. I'd really like to somehow catch a boat from the Indian Ocean through the Red Sea to the Mediterranean and then touring Europe through there. Main issue is that i would REALLY like to visit india, then fuck around in europe, but odds are I won't have the money to just go to europe to travel, so i might have to stop somewhere and work for a while again. Who knows.

Anyways, while i'm in Europe, I want to hit up Egypt, which would technically count as Africa, but it's still kind of a cop-out...but I could live with that.

All that would be left then is South America, which will pry be last on the list, and Antarctica....the latter is definitely going to be rough, but there are always scientists and shit going down there, I REALLY don't want to take a cruise down there, cause cruises are kinda the antithesis of how I like to travel, not to mention expensive as fuck. But who knows

So that's that. Thoughts? My main issue right now is that I feel like I should be establishing myself financially blah blah blah blah....I really don't know what I want to do and I don't see the point of staying here and getting all this material shit, and for what? To secure a wife? That's pretty much the only reason I can see.....Most of us are going to be working till we're 60 anyways, why not delay it a bit and see the world?

I'm only 24 and a half, so i've got almost 6 years to do all this, but thats 5 continents in 6 years...thats a lot if you have to work to pay your way as you're doing it.

05-02-2008, 11:32 PM	#1 (permalink)
Mr. Blonde Spice Master Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 17,969 Internets: 284106	All 7 Continents Before I Turn 30. This is my next big goal in life, cemented last month inside my head. After a little over a year in "real life" after returning from my first journey abroad, I have decided that....it sucks. Pretty bad. Not only do I not really know what I want to do with myself, I refuse to "stick around" until I find something I can "settle" for, which is what most people seem to do after college, if they go at all. I have already obviously seen quite a bit of North America, although i'd love to see more of Mexico and Canada, but those are relatively low priority, due to proximity. I spent 4 months in Australia as most of you know, so that continent is covered, although I'd like to live there someday...it's fucking magical down there. In 4 months, barring any catastrophes or something great happening to me that makes me actually want to stay, I will be moving to Korea for a year to teach English in Seoul. I will only be working about 30 hours a week, so hopefully on weekends and breaks in between school (if they have them), I plan to travel to Japan, Thailand, China (although beebs thought there might be a visa issue....Ironic, any advice on that front?), and anywhere else I might venture off to. That should take care of Asia...after that, if I find myself not wanting to return still, I am tentatively thinking of catching a flight to India, and was MAYBE thinking of backpacking my way through the middle east to get to Europe, but that might not be a good idea. I'd really like to somehow catch a boat from the Indian Ocean through the Red Sea to the Mediterranean and then touring Europe through there. Main issue is that i would REALLY like to visit india, then fuck around in europe, but odds are I won't have the money to just go to europe to travel, so i might have to stop somewhere and work for a while again. Who knows. Anyways, while i'm in Europe, I want to hit up Egypt, which would technically count as Africa, but it's still kind of a cop-out...but I could live with that. All that would be left then is South America, which will pry be last on the list, and Antarctica....the latter is definitely going to be rough, but there are always scientists and shit going down there, I REALLY don't want to take a cruise down there, cause cruises are kinda the antithesis of how I like to travel, not to mention expensive as fuck. But who knows So that's that. Thoughts? My main issue right now is that I feel like I should be establishing myself financially blah blah blah blah....I really don't know what I want to do and I don't see the point of staying here and getting all this material shit, and for what? To secure a wife? That's pretty much the only reason I can see.....Most of us are going to be working till we're 60 anyways, why not delay it a bit and see the world? I'm only 24 and a half, so i've got almost 6 years to do all this, but thats 5 continents in 6 years...thats a lot if you have to work to pay your way as you're doing it.