Hey, how's it going if you didn't already know, I'm Gabby and in this video
We are talking about a topic that is near and dear to my heart a question that I get asked all the time
How do you afford to?
Travel so much if you've been following me
You know that I love to travel, and I usually take several international trips every year
So I must be rich right actually no
I am NOT rich unless you count things like friendship and health yes
I am rich in those things
But I actually do some creative things so that I can afford to travel and you can do them, too
I want to share them with you in this video, so if you're interested in
Travel if you're interested in seeing the world in
Speaking to people from all over the world and learning new things then
Keep watching because I want to share how you can afford to travel as well now
This assumes a few things like you already have enough money to cover the basics like
your rent
food
utilities
Things like that have to come first
but after that you can make travel a priority and that is
Essential if you want to travel you really do have to make it a priority especially if it's a stretch to be able to afford
a plane ticket or a hotel or things associated with
Travel so first of all let's prioritize
Travel let's create a savings account for your travels
And maybe let's cut back on some of those extra items that new pair of shoes
Or the new t-shirt or maybe going out and drinking on the weekend
those are maybe some things that we could cut back on if they're not as high of a priority as
Travel is now. I have a question for you
I would love to know where is the next place that you would like to travel
Tell me in the comments cuz I would love to know
Next we tend to think of the total cost of a trip, and it really freaks us out
I know travel can be expensive. Let's say you're looking at a plane ticket. It's $1,000 because you're traveling far
Maybe you're gonna travel for a couple weeks and your hotel
Your hotel cost might be another thousand dollars food and activities might be another thousand dollars and all of a sudden this
Two-week trip cost three thousand dollars, and that's a lot of money that you don't have right now
But think about if you saved for a year if you just saved three thousand dollars in a year
That would be eight dollars and 22 cents a day that's about the cost of bringing your lunch to work
Every day now these are general rough estimates
But you can see what I'm trying to say instead of trying to come up with three thousand dollars like that out of nowhere
Try to break it down into smaller goals, and it may not even take you a whole year to save the amount that you need
Especially if you use some other strategies to keep your travel costs low
Now my third strategy for affording to travel. Anywhere is I
don't take
Luxurious trips I try to find the luxury in the little things for example when I travel to Brazil
I find
Luxury pure luxury in having a good cup of acai which is a Brazilian?
fruit that they make kind of smoothie out of and that could cost maybe
$5 or less
Much less depending on where I get it or a good mango a good piece of fruit
that is luxury sitting on the beach is a
Luxury that costs absolutely nothing of course it costs money to get there
But as you see once you're there in your destination where you want to be you can do so many things that
feel luxurious
But don't actually cost money so again try to find luxury in the little things it could even be a conversation
With someone it could be having something. That's low cost like a cup of tea and a nice conversation
Another tip is to always be on the lookout for
Eels or specials or even alternative means of travel I talked about plane tickets
But maybe you could get on a boat, maybe you could take a road trip, or maybe there's other ways to travel
That would be
Cheaper or maybe there's some special deal that you could watch out for finally in my opinion
One of the best ways to travel is to actually
Travel as a worker
Or as a volunteer or in a way where you might actually be getting paid to travel
Let me explain my very first trip abroad was actually to Cuba many years ago
I was a student in college and I got a scholarship to take classes that took me to
Cuba not only that but I got a grant to
actually pay for my travel to go to Cuba so I was able to go for a very low cost my
Second trip was studying abroad in Dominican Republic, and I also had a scholarship to study there
And you know instead of paying for a really expensive study abroad
Package program that a lot of students do kind of a commercial program
I talked to people and I made some phone calls
and I figured out how to
directly enroll in the University in the Dominican Republic
And I lived with a local family and in that way my costs were very very low in fact. I was spending less money
Living in the Dominican Republic that I would have been if I was studying at my home university in the United States
then I went to Brazil a few years after that and I
Saved money by working for several months to save you know my airfare and some other miscellaneous
Costs, but then I saved money by staying with a family again. I did a homestay program
That was actually free because it was like an exchange program finally one of the best experiences
I've had traveling abroad was when I got a work contract to teach English in Japan
and I had all my expenses paid for and I actually got paid to teach English for a year in Japan and that was my
first real paid job teaching English and well
You know what happened after that I totally loved the experience
And I've been teaching English ever since and traveling ever since so look for those opportunities
that may not be
commercialized or advertised as much
There's a lot of opportunities for you to
volunteer to lower your cost of travel to stay with locals maybe to study or even
To work abroad so that you can see more of the world without having to stress about money or put it off until
Someday when you're rich, so I hope that you get to travel where you want to again
Tell me in the comments where you'd like to travel
Tell me if you enjoyed this kind of video and these tips and I will look for your comments. Thanks so much for watching
bye for now