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101 Ways to Travel the World for Less than $10 a Day.
I always joke about how disastrous that title is. It was the most logical title I could come up with after writing my first book a few years ago. At that point, we’d been traveling the world, nonstop, for about 2-years.
We’d spent 6-months trekking through Central America, starting in Panama and ending in Mexico. We spent the most amount of money there, because we had no idea what we were doing. Before our departure from our hometown in Ohio, I read as much as I could about how to travel cheaply, but most of the info was outdated or of no use.
Getting to Mexico from Panama was an amazing adventure, especially since we traveled exclusively on land. Not one flight in those six months, just buses, vans, boats and taxis. So, much of my time was spent searching online and asking a lot of questions in broken Spanish, trying to figure out where you catch the bus to Managua, Nicaragua from Granada, and other travel questions that came about on our journey.
There was no information for all the off the beaten path destinations we hit, the hidden beaches we visited, and the maze of bus routes we learned to navigate. Always the innovator, Jarrell recommended I create a blog and write all the content I was searching so hard for.
I did just that, from the pool house we rented in an old mansion in a Cancun suburb back in 2013. It was a hideous blog, and extremely niche with info about all the places we visited and later all the ways I learned to make money online. You’ll find some of those travel articles (though the website has received a prettier upgrade) on my old travel blog.
As our journey continued, I learned more than I ever could have imagined. By the end of our first year on the road, I’d become an expert when it came to traveling for next to nothing. You have to understand, we left to travel the world with one backpack each, no jobs, and little savings.
For the entire first year of our journey, Jarrell built a career as a freelance artist, while I focused on stretching every dollar he made. Eventually, I got so good at finding opportunities, we rarely paid for accommodation in some of the most desirable destinations in the world.
We spent 6-months in England, 3-months on a Greek island, 2-months in Morocco, 3-months in Spain, 2-months in Italy, and so much more without spending a dollar.
As always, Jarrell pushed me on to the next step – I needed to take all the tips I’d learned and put them in a book. It was my first digital product, and published work as an author. So, as much as I joke about the title, I absolutely love this book and what it meant to me.
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