you must have a lot of money because you're always travelling - Mike how do you
afford it you must be rich. Are your parents rich? Have you got rich parents?
Are they giving you money for your travels no no no and no traveling doesn't cost a
lot of money it really doesn't it especially if
you're from a country like England where just staying alive costs a hell of a lot
of money I thought I'd use this opportunity whilst I am spending a night
in a pretty standard kind of motel type place in Albuquerque on my way from...
well I left Texas Buffalo Texas this morning drove 750 miles and I thought
I'd use this opportunity just to kind of explain to the people who say things
like this to me oh you must be rich you must have a lot of money that actually
it doesn't need to cost a lot it's not free but you don't have to be rich rich
okay you can travel on very little as I do this travel lodge tonight cost me $30
okay I think it's like 34 dollars to be to be completely fair about 34 dollars
and that's typical I mean you can just google this stuff is it's not like
rocket science but this Travel Lodge cost me about $34 okay?
now when I was living in Oxford my rent was fairly typical - it was, well
exactly £600 a month which is around $900 for a month
~900 let's call it $1,000 a month okay so first of all in having moved out
of my apartment back home and now living here I have saved a thousand dollars a
month which is now kind of in my pocket and actually I could stay at a Travel
Lodge like this full-time every night and - let's call it $30 for 30 nights what's
that that's $900 isn't it yeah $900 so my point being I could actually move
into this Travel Lodge and live here forever I wouldn't want to as you'll see
in a minute but I could just on the rent I've saved from being in England so if
you got to go traveling go travel long term take like
two three four months okay long enough so that you can move out of your
accommodation / the apartment you're renting - put all your stuff in boxes
leave it at your mum's house or your dad's house or your mates house or put
in storage if you want pay a hundred quid for a month or a couple of months
and just put it away box it up and move out of your apartment then you you
travel with a little case like this and... you're good to go really!
okay food depending which country you're in: if you're in China or India
Sri Lanka I mean generally speaking the poorer country is the less you can eat
for ie the cheaper the food is. In America it's not quite like that I mean -
for a good meal here you need to be paying twenty thirty dollars for a
decent meal - it depends on the city but I don't really eat
meals out I might have like one meal every couple of days but the places I
tend to stay like this place here even though it's $30 a night I
still get breakfast in the morning so I eat as much as I can I'll put an apple
in my pocket I'll take some oats in fact my dinner tonight let me show you my
dinner tonight it's a bit of a mess but okay so I've got a bag of bananas which
I bought a bunch of bananas those were 25 cents each just some like pretty
generic cakes type stuff - I've got an Apple which I've robbed from breakfast I've
got some pop-tarts which I bought the other day and I've got a sachet of oats here
just like brewing which I had for breakfast and it looks disgusting isn't it you're
probably all going
like that. I've already eaten a banana and I'm even eating some doritos with a bit of nacho
sauce which I kept from my burrito bag earlier I mean this is kind of wrank but
my point being like my dinner tonight has cost me okay most of its free like
that oats the Apple or the Apple was free the burrito is like a dollar the
crisps were like $2 bananas were like $1 for like four bananas so like my entire
food today has cost me like four dollars so I've spent four dollars on my entire
food for a day okay now four times 30 120 dollars so you're looking at $120 for food
for a month now that's like really pushing it and I wouldn't probably quite
push it that far but my point being doesn't have to cost much look at my
bathroom this is what a $30 a night Travel Lodge will get you okay smells of
urine the toilet is horrible but it's... it is what it is and you know what I just
had a cold shower why have I had a cold shower? because guess what there's no a/c
here now I want to change the and it's 40 degrees out I want to change the kind
of the point of this not just being about you know how to be a weirdo and
eat junk and like nasty food for free but what it actually does and this
you know - changing topics slightly - it gives you the sense of freedom
independence and... what's the word i'm looking for?
just control in a sense that everything is going to be okay because you know
what - I mean I'm I don't want to make out like I'm living in third world
conditions like I've got a bed to sleep and I've got a roof over my head you
know I have slept in a lot worse and this is
actually quite comfortable okay and I mean that relatively it's actually quite
comfortable but and here's the point in I mean like if I
wanted to work harder and you know try and get a top top position that yeah you
can you can live more comfortably but the point I'm making is that in proving
to yourself that you can live on thirty dollars a day 20 dollars a day 35
dollars a day as today's cost me - it's like you you give yourself that
knowledge that power that freedom that actually it's gonna be okay
because worst case if I have to eat oats for a week or eat beans for two weeks
and rice and nothing else - so what? like is that really the worst that can happen
is that the worst case is that what I'm afraid of is that what I'm like freaking
out about college and uni and school and my job for so that I can afford this so
that I don't have to be in a position of eating rice and beans? well you know what
like living on $20-$30 a day isn't that bad I mean these trousers I'm wearing now
I've got them in the sale that were $10 I've had this belt for literally about
six years this t-shirt I don't even know where it came from but I wear it all the
time and I think it was probably my brothers and I really really just kind
of and I'm not I don't have a lot of like... I'm certainly not from a
wealthy family I don't have a lot of money but I do travel a lot as you can
see and it doesn't actually have to cost a lot that's the point of this video I
hope you enjoyed watching quite a long one but I hope you took something
valuable from it
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