Hola ,
maybe a little bit crazy,but it is a thought.
Learn to play an instrument, and play in every street corner while traveling to earn your $$.
Or buy a clown suit and make an act on every town square.
Don't have an idea how far you can travel like this but
it will be very interesting !!!
For the moment this is my thought.

interesting tread

Saludos

Ted doesn't need a suit!:blushing::censored::confused1:

What are like with boats Ted? Loads of deckhand/engineering jobs out there, ok most you will need your STW95 Survival, First Aid, Fire Fighting etc. If your lucky and get on the right boat the pays excellent 2,500 + for deckhand and 6000+ for engineer Per month or more.

If you don't want to spend on courses get on to Sunsail/Sailing holidays etc. You could easily get a job as engineer on flotilla or shore based in the Med or Carribean. Ok not great as far as traveling goes but its a great life and good way to build sea miles and experience for the bigger boats.

I done a season sailing the Greek Islands and the next year around Turkey about 10 years ago, great fun.

Just an idea.

Cheers Jim

Ted clearly travel is in your blood so your likely to need to repeat the process of work,save, travel until death or until the slow death of marriage and children puts the handbrake on.
You need a job that allows you to tickle the travel itch on a yearly basis but that you can come back to when you need to recharge finances, body and spirit.
I opted for a job which is stable, reasonably well paying and gives me 3 months off per year, even 5 months if I do extra shifts.
I work as firefighter and I believe conditions for firefighters in the Uk are pretty similar. Plus you get a 4 day weekend every week for small jaunts into the country or across the channel.
It would be a long term solution rather than a quick fix every time you run out of cash but still have the bug to travel.

Ted
 

Seen this and thought of you :smartass:

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Just saw a post on 3 people on vespa's who are
going to travel on NO budget!
Maybey they know a few tricks.

( appart from the :Beach:donate $$ button on there site!)

So they are eating and drinking nothing? They sleep in the dirt on the side of the road? Their bikes run on fresh air? Their bikes were free? Bikes never break down or need a service?

Maybe mummy and daddy are paying?

Ahhhh yes. There are a lot of 'Mummy & daddy' and 'Rich auntie left me her house in her will' travellers out there.

And there is nothing wrong with that.... The rest of us are just jealous :innocent:

I borrowed £7,000 from the bank for South America... BAD IDEA ! I've only just paid it all back and that was a killer shackle around my neck.

Africa took me two years of INTENSE saving and selling to pay for. I really felt like I earned that one.

I need to marry a rich old lady with a weak heart :rolleyes2:

Touring Ted
 

Ted,

Just keep looking, there might be the odd one left over.

But the changes are rare.

Cheers

maybe rob a few banks on the way:blushing:?hahahaha


I hope they have a great time and succeed in there travel!:thumbup1::thumbup1:

http://www.ekonomico.fr/wp-content/u...iche_monde.jpg

Gina Reinhardt is the richest woman in the world with $24 Billion. She looks like she could do with some lovin...

That is if you want to fall on that sword.

Personally, I am not really a big fan of people who head out with no money but only an expectation that they can survive on the good will of others. That is, if that is what those vespa guys are doing.

I know what you mean, I still have another year and a half left paying back my £6k loan that funded my Mongolia trip. But at the time I decided to do it, about 9 months before I set off, I was already running out of patience with my life. That 9 months was a struggle and I'm pretty sure I couldn't have managed another year to save up all the cash. So whilst the loan has been a painful shackle, particularly when I first got back, better to do it that way than not at all. And I came back ready to make some changes to my life which I might never have managed without the inspiration.

Gina is deffo Ted's type. I'm sure he saw plenty of her clones/mooses (or is the plural of moose, mice?) on his Canadian jolly.

What's the website of the mysterious scooter-riders?

Personally I couldn't do the bank loan thing. To me it would be very depressing the idea of going back home with a huge debt hanging over my head.

Plus, how do you get a bank loan and not have to start paying it back straight away? Or do you get a loan for say 6000 GBP and use say 1000 GBP to pay back the repayments for the first year and then use the other 5000 GBP?

Anders, a guy from Denmark, does a video blog similar to me, so I was following his stuff, he took out a 30k USD bank loan to ride around the world. That's a lot of cash to be paying back.

I have had loans in the past, had one or a music festival I started in University, and have found that it was easier for me to save the money than to pay it back. It took me 4 years to pay back $7000 AUD, it took me 6 months to save that much. The motivation to save is higher than the motivation to pay back I think. I found it much easier to save once I had that loan of 7k paid off.

+1.
If you can't get it now, you'll have an even harder time getting it later.