How NOT to Plan

19 years old –> Moscow, Russia  –> no plans or bookings — > $1000 –> 1 suitcase  –> Los Angeles, USA  …

  

  … Yes, I actually just got a visa, bought a ticket and left …

Moved to a different continent, alone, as a teenager, with no plans, no help, no family and no friends waiting for me in US… but managed to survive & succeed.

If I could do that, trust me, so can you! Age, time and money should never be an excuse.

For me, “Planning” takes life out of living …

No matter how long you have been planning for or how “perfect” your planned trip is in your head…. Life will happen to it …

Why stand in the way of LIFE with it’s stunning beauty & glorious imperfections and suffocate it with our own FEAR ? …

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I travel independently, meaning, buying all my plane tickets, hotels, adventures myself or those trips are SPONSORED. I use public transport and spend 99% of my time with locals.

I try to not only visit a country, but actually LIVE there, be it for a few years, a month or for several days…

Wouldn’t trade my time in a crowded Kenyan Matatu or Ugandan Boda-Boda, even for a ride in a limo or on a private jet!

It takes courage and fearlessness to travel our amazing planet solo, but it’s worth every lost nerve cell…

Actually, it’s worth way more than that…

It’s priceless.

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Google is truly an incredible thing … just search “how to travel the world cheap” and you’ll be able to find tons of useful information on this topic.

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And remember, Life & Travel is only as expensive or inexpensive as you make it…

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The woman behind no plans …

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