RE: USA Culture Shock Part 5: Fear Porn!
Hi! I'm Chris! @luzcypher turned me onto your page. I'm about to do what you're doing, well in general- I don't know what you're doing at this very moment. I'm leaving to go around the world for as long as I can make it last starting in September. Today I'm deciding whether to head west from Ohio to Australia first, or East to Europe... I'm thinking because winter will be coming in Europe, Australia may be better. Enough about me, I completely agree with your post. I just came back to Ohio to visit my family for a couple months before my newest adventure starts and fear mongering is all the rage. My parents have the tv on all day and all I see is "Feel bad about your life" "Buy this and you will feel better" "The world is a scary place" "You'll die if you walk out of the house." My mother's response when I said I was probably going to start in Europe was, "Don't you think that's dangerous with all that's going on over there?" ....? AAAAGHH! She's in more danger of dying in a car accident on the way to the local mall. It's a shame. I rode my bicycle across the USA in the late nineties. The number one response my riding partner and I got from people was, "Are you going to take a gun?" My response was usually, "No, we're going to take maps."
@luzcypher is a super cool guy. Met up with him in Playa del Carmen Mexico twice. There's a post about it on my blog area just down a week or two. I just gone done with a two month adventure from South Ecuador to up through central America and poppoing out of Cancun to spend 5 weeks in up-state NY area with friends and family.
Then I'm out to Thailand laos on the 6th of August- first week of December. Then to Florida for a week. Then Ecuador for and traveling South East to through Central America and flying out of Buenos Aires Argintina to Portugal and parts of Europe. That about 6-10 month plan at the moment. But it's hard to plan that far out.
I see you mention that you want to travel "as long as you can make it".....if you're talking about money running out; then I would highly not recommend Australia or Europe. Do you have a lot of travel Experience? Are you traveling alone. What parts of the world are you familiar with?
Yeah coming back to America has been a trip. I'm glad you found my post interesting. It's a bit strange that series of post and can perceived in a political light, or could be found offensive. I'm not really shooting for that on here. If you scroll down on my blog you can see "travel reports". They have earned the most money and up-votes. I plan to start sticking to that. I want you to read a couple of them and see the format, travel scale, style of writing.
If you can mimic/copy that style of writing using that scale. Assuming it's good and infomative. You can report on places you visit too, and I'll resteem them at my new handle @travel-report. I plan on building that up with follower and networking a crew of travel reporters to write no nonsense reports in that style. If you can do that I think only good things will come.
I just read your into. I've been traveling like 10 years. I see you're looking for advice. Not sure what your plan is, but if you have question or two I can answer. If you really new to this I could even meet you on skype and give you a little consultation on how you can more for less.
Don't have time to edit what I wrote. Hope it's ok. Thanks for checking in.- Dan