Long-term budget traveling - everyday life

**The glamour of long-term budget backpacking.
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So, you’re ready to go on your first ever budget backpacking trip? You’ve done all your research and planning, you’ve read just about every travel blog there is to read. You’re excited by the glamorous pictures filled with amazing adventures from one day to the next and you want some of that action.

You’re about to swap your ‘normal’ life for a life of daily adventure. You can just imagine it, you’ll be ticking things off your bucket list day after day, you’re friends and family are going to be so jealous of your new life.

And, why wouldn’t they be jealous, while they’re stuck in their everyday life, the mundane routine, you’re going to be gallivanting around the world, going from one adventure to the next. Your days are going to be crammed with new experiences, meeting new people, drinking cocktails on paradise beaches and discovering hidden gems on a daily basis.

Well…that’s not entirely true!

Long-term budget backpacking life – Everyday life.

While there is no doubt your trip will most likely be an incredible journey full of adventures, mystery, meeting new people, discovering hidden gems, new cultures and crammed with unforgettable experiences; not everyday will be an adventure.

It’s unfortunate but a lot of travel related information like blogs, magazines, websites, videos don’t like to actually educate and prepare you for what long-term budget backpacking life is going to be like. They give you snapshots and like to ‘sell and showcase’ the idea of traveling being glamorous all the time. However they don’t tend to mention what happens in-between the adventure days.

Not trying to put you off long-term budget backpacking.

Before anybody starts to think that I’m putting a damper on budget backpacking, or trying to put you off, that is not what I’m doing. I’m just making you aware of another traveling realism.

Over the years I’ve come across so many first time budget backpackers that were so under-prepared but it wasn’t always entirely their own fault; they just didn’t know any better. They saw and read about the glamours of traveling but just weren’t clued up on what everyday budget backpacking life was going be like and felt lost.

It’s not just others, I was exactly the same before my first trip. I read all these amazing things about traveling, watched incredible videos and vlogs and my mind was bursting with endless thoughts of what my traveling life was going to be like. However it didn’t take long to realize I was not prepared for everyday long-term budget backpacking life.

So the reason for this post is not to put you off traveling but just to give you an insight into what to expect when you’re not ticking something off your bucket list.

Long-term budget backpacking life – How everyday life progresses.

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