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How do you jack it all in and travel?
Where does the cash come from, how do you live without an income,? how is it feasable?
What do you have to do in advance before feking off on the TRIP??

Can you be too old too old do it at 44,? How do you explain to them all that your off??

How do I live on the road??
Scrimp, scrimp sacrifice. When you run out of money come back and scrimp again . I intend to set off soon to Africa, leaving behind my temp' min wage job and a rented room in a shared house.
At 47 I have no future in this country anyway (u.k) and when , if, I come back I will be homeless and unemployed, again. But I think to live in such an intense fashion, even for a relatively short time is probably worth it. Oh yeah, no one will understand and everyone will think you are crazy. 44 too old? I think not.
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Scrimp, scrimp sacrifice. When you run out of money come back and scrimp again . I intend to set off soon to Africa, leaving behind my temp' min wage job and a rented room in a shared house.
At 47 I have no future in this country anyway (u.k) and when , if, I come back I will be homeless and unemployed, again. But I think to live in such an intense fashion, even for a relatively short time is probably worth it. Oh yeah, no one will understand and everyone will think you are crazy. 44 too old? I think not.
If it is not too personal a question, how much money are you taking with you?
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@tenere99 exactly...
I´m 33 years old,and i´ve got my working visa for canada,so i leave germany behind me again...to try it far away from home.
I need some help with the shipping of my bike because i think 2000US from one company, or 1395 Brit Pound from another are verry deer...
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@tenere99 exactly...
I´m 33 years old,and i´ve got my working visa for canada,so i leave germany behind me again...to try it far away from home.
I need some help with the shipping of my bike because i think 2000US from one company, or 1395 Brit Pound from another are verry deer...
Always good travel greety andy
Andy - be aware that you cannot import your European bike into Canada unless it is more than 15 or 20 years old. You can keep it there for one year only after which time you need to remove it. If you are planning to be there for more than one year, suggest sell the bike in Germany and buy another in USA and import into Canada.
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If it is not too personal a question, how much money are you taking with you?
I,m afraid that is too personal a question.
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I,m afraid that is too personal a question.
Sorry - did not mean to pry; just interested in how much money people hit the road with.
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Sorry - did not mean to pry; just interested in how much money people hit the road with.
No need to apologise chief just my paranoia. The correct answer is not enough I guess.
As a final thought you need to think about your perceptions changing to the point of never fitting in when (if) you come back. In 2010 I was nearly killed in the Chilean earthquake. Then you get back and people tell you about their latest 'phone upgrade and how drunk they were last weekend, and how many numbers they got on the lottery, and what's happening on Big brother.
I am in no way trying to be elitist and I do not regard myself in any way special but there is more to life than that shit! Surely?
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No need to apologise chief just my paranoia. The correct answer is not enough I guess.
As a final thought you need to think about your perceptions changing to the point of never fitting in when (if) you come back. In 2010 I was nearly killed in the Chilean earthquake. Then you get back and people tell you about their latest 'phone upgrade and how drunk they were last weekend, and how many numbers they got on the lottery, and what's happening on Big brother.
I am in no way trying to be elitist and I do not regard myself in any way special but there is more to life than that shit! Surely?
I hear ya brother. I've nearly been killed a couple of times, once pretty close and pretty violently and it sure does change you; I actually like to think it made me a better person, but on the flip side I also don't have a lot of time for the usual suspects and all their sh1t.

Ride on.
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In 2010 I was nearly killed in the Chilean earthquake. Then you get back and people tell you about their latest 'phone upgrade and how drunk they were last weekend, and how many numbers they got on the lottery, and what's happening on Big brother.
I am in no way trying to be elitist and I do not regard myself in any way special but there is more to life than that shit! Surely?

Exactly!! And you don't have to be caught in an earthquake for that to happen. Life is never the same after an extended visit outside the western world.
A plus side, I no longer care about 'convention' nor what 'others' think of what I do or say, and that itself can be a journey into the unknown.
It leads you to somewhere new but I don't know where yet.

They say before you leave you should look at your luggage and take only half of it, look at your cash and take twice the amount.
But I now say - look at how far you plan to travel per week/month, take a BIG knife to it and divide it by four.

And be prepared to find your outlook on life when you return is completely different to all those around you.
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