I want to travel the world.
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I feel like I've wasted my 20s basically, now approaching my 30s, I spent 8 and a half months travelling around India and Nepal back when I was 25, been to some countries in Europe and thats about it, I haven't done the things I've wanted too do and see. I'm going to make my 30s different and see more off the world. Is 30 too old to go backpacking? i'm itching to go, I have commitment next year to go to Germany and Greece but am going to get to the equator line before I reach 30. Am I failure for not travelling much?
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I have spent more than half my adult life in SE Asia and have had some wonderful and remarkable experiences OK I have been working and getting well paid so not the same as backpacking but I have met people of all ages who travel around and none of them seemed to regret any of it Go for it
I think you're asking the wrong crowd. See forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1799311
Up until around 2000 we'd done the usual family holidays with our kids - France, Malta, Turkey.
Then, when the kids were old enough to go solo, we got the urge to go further afield and in the last 14 years we've visited almost every corner of the world as often as we could afford.
Our last journey was self drive around NZ.
It's never too late.
I would dearly love to see more of the world but ill health and not much money means it probably won't happen for me. I'm grateful for what I have seen though, going to New York when I was 21 being a huge highlight of my life that I'll never forget.
You are Jules Winnfield and I claim my £5!
You're never too old OP.
All you do is go and come back again.
Your statement is like saying why bother washing when you'll only get dirty again.
I had only been out of the country a couple of times by the time I was 29 as I was always skint in my twenties. However, since I turned 30 I have hardly stopped travelling. I got a job which involved a lot of European travel (and some further afield) and starting going abroad on holiday - it's a lot easier, and more fun, to travel when you have money.
Well, while we're on this topic...
Too bad I am all alone and don't have the balls to travel by myself.
not any cheaper, but probably less physically exhausting.
I know someone gone 70 who has moved to the Orkneys to set up a smallholding.
Never let age - or other peoples expectations - define you.
It's a piece of cake. The best thing about going by yourself is that you can do what you want, where you want and when you want without the need to keep someone else happy. SE Asia is especially good for solo travellers as there are so many single people - of all ages out there - from all over the world and it's so easy to meet people. I'm off to Vietnam next week (via Hong Kong - which should be interesting)
Everyone should adopt that as the basis of their life.
live in my flat and the rest of the world is on the telly :cool:
2 .... if you feel that you haven't done what you ought to, then f 'ing do the rest. You'll regret it otherwise
3 ... life doesn't stop at whatever age, unless you let it
4 ... just be. As long as you hurt nobody else.
Honest opinion? F'ING GO FOR IT!!!!!
personally ive never wished to travel much, but those people with the "wanderlust instinct" do seem to feel it very strongly .........
satellite tv especially. i saw a complete bullfight on some fta channel .......