HOW I TRAVEL THE WORLD ✈ CHEAP TRAVEL TIPS | Go Natural English

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