trekkers*

I have a debilitating porn addiction and when I spend weeks at a time in the wilderness I lose the urge to fap and get to feel like a normal human a small fraction of the year.
Or were you hoping for something more romantic. I don't think many of us can put it into words that don't sound ridiculous, really.

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I like the idea to have romantic relationships when travelling abroad. I'm physics student and there's virtually no beautiful girl in my departement (finding Higgs boson was easy compared to finding a gf).

Also, great landscapes makes you feel fucking awesome. (pic related, top of Mount Fuji at early morning)

To live a different life if only for a while

Personally, I just never feel as good as I do when I'm traveling. It's almost as if time slows down and I can really enjoy life and everything it has to offer.

There's also a certain danger and challenge in traveling alone that I really like.

>>642976

Yeah, I love the short-lived intense romances abroad.

I am shy and awkward to the point of never being able to get a woman, I go abroad to have sex with prostitutes.

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To live life to the maximum.

To make new memorable memories.

To experience new cultures.

To photograph, which is my main hobby, new and exciting places (pic related, Sossusvlei in Namibia).

To see awesome shit in general.

To try both delicious and disgusting foreign food.

To be confronted with myself.

To try and have intercourse with promiscuous backpackers.

And of course to run away from wage and debt slavery.

>>642988
where'd you get that photo, did you take it yourself?

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>>642992

Yep, I took it myself. Here have another one, shot in the desert of Sudan.

Several reasons I think.

I like seeing new things, experiencing people and places that I haven't seen before. I like being a foreigner, I think there's some kind of security and comfort in being a stranger, some kind of weird freedom. Also, I really like knowing that I have experienced more places than others. If they want to talk shit about a place they've never been to, or try to impress me with their last vacation wherever, I always know I've either been their longer, more often, or to ten times as many places as he has.

The last reason is probably a pretty stupid reason to travel, but I think it's just as valid [spoiler]possibly stupid though[/spoiler]

>>642988
Could you post a higher-res version of your photograph please? It's gorgeous, man, looks like "Shine On You Crazy Diamond".

>>642995
>>642988
Fucking saved. You've given me a relapse of Sahara fever.

>>642997
yeah, i think, just do it because you can, when you are old, with kids, it may not be a good idea to go to some places...

>>642997
I don't think there's a comfort or safety in being a foreigner but there certainly is a lot of excitement and mystery about you. It makes people more open to you somehow, you'd think it would be the other way.

That's one of the main reasons I travel. It's borderline impossible for me to make friends at home. Somehow people don't find issues with talking to me when they realise I'm from far away...

I'm an expat.

1/ It's what I like. I'm the kind of people who can read for hours wikitravel articles.
2/ I love to discover new cultures and it's not something you can get out of books. I'm really curious to see how my fellow human beings live.
3/ I'm also curious to be aware of the rest of my world. It's not big surprise but the information you can get in your country is a bit biased (makes me sound like a conspirationist...). I mean, there are tons of prejudices you get from your national culture, and I like to chop them down one after another.
4/ People living abroad tend to be a more interesting crowd than those who stay in their homecountry. "tend to". The downside is that a lot of those you meet in developing countries are borderline pedophiles and run away criminals.
5/ Wages are higher abroad.
6/ I got the highest and lowest time of my life traveling. When I'm back home, life seems awfully bland to me.
7/ I'm never bored. There is always something to discover.

But basically, it's my passion, my hobby, something I feel good doing. And I can't imagine myself just putting this activity in a box and spending my time time doing something else.

However, there are lots of bad sides:
- hard to find a girl traveling with you (I left a local in every places I went, and my white knight feeling are hurt every time)
- homesick from times to times
- leaving a lot of friends everytime you move
- nostalgia all the fucking time (you leave something/someone you like in every places)
- there are no models : basically, you have to invent your life all the time, you cannot follow someone's path, which is a bit confusing, depressing sometimes

Because the first 18 years of my life, I've lived with a family who's previous 4 or so generations before me lived within 100 miles of where I live now.

Currently training to become a teacher, so I can get jobs at international schools.

>>642988
>>642995
do you perchance go by the name of h

Home's boring as fuck, ever heard of defamiliarization? Going away basically grants me that effect

>>643038
>1/ It's what I like. I'm the kind of people who can read for hours wikitravel articles.
Seriously? I thought I was the only one. Do you also look up all those places on google earth and kinda plan out trips you'll take a long time in the future?

>tfw I know so much more about geography because of google earth

>>643038
How exactly did you get your position? What background of education did you receive, and whatnot? I'm highly interested in the job of being an expat and would love some insight into the path. Thanks a lot, mate

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>>643038
this

Spent several years after college, working a job I hated and supporting a girl who ended up burning me after five years. Decided to say fuckit and been wandering for just over two years. Never been happier.

pic: on the road to kazbegi

>>642957 (OP)
so if you travel you will have a dead end job, die childless and leave no heir, making your life an evolutionary dead end

if you stay and go to school and work, you will pass on your genes and be an evolutionary success

tough choice

>>643147
I don't go that far.
Since I live abroad, I plan trips in my surrounding area. I'm a shitty planner, I mostly improvise on the way.
Like "I start here, I want to go there. I want to go place 1 and place 2. I need to do another 20 stops on the way, meh, I'll see once I'll be gone"

>>643158
Hum, "expat" is something very broad. There is no miracle recipes, it depends on your origins, what you like and so on...

Say, for my situation. I studied BA & logistics for 4 years in France, intertwined with several internships, and an exchange program abroad. I'm now working in shipping industry. I've always worked in French corporations since they prefer nationals to look after local employees.So this the racism of French corporations and my set of skills (logistics, ability to live in third world countries, experience in those countries) that made me employable.

But that's my situation. I met expats of any kind : those who stay in the same foreign country forever. Those who work for administrations (embassies, consulates...). The mercenaries who go in a place for 1 year and then come back home. Those who mix with locals and those who don't. Those who do it for the money, and those who do it for the lulz.
And they're all good, but there is no one size fits all.

>>643197
>ctd.

Basically, the easiest way I would recommend to be employable abroad, is to get a rare skill which is sought worldwide so your nationality does not even matter. I'm trying to achieve that. But it takes years, if not decades.
Don't be too picky if you want to have a career, go where you can get the best work experience at first, then ask to go to the fun countries. Keep in mind that the whole world is open to you for your positions. Try to pick the best opportunities to learn the shit.

I despise those with these long term "alternative" careers abroad. You'll meet on the way a lot of weirdo doing "cat sitting", or working in NGOs for peanuts forever. I mean having worked your ass off in some shitty NGO for 400USD/month for 5 years when you're 30 is being a failure, you're clearly wasting your skills, step up your game.

>>643188
Not possible to do both?
>get your degree
>work for a few years
>take a career break in your late 20's/early 30's
>travel for a few years
>settle down in the place you like the most
>find a girl
>have babies...

>>643215
Of course it is.

But this anon was just pointing at the poor quality of the comic.

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>>642998

Here you go. Not the original file as that was too big to upload, but it should be good enough.

>>643139

Nope, I do not.

I am planning my travels atm, but long story short I got coerced into doing a degree I hated and now I'm finished I can't get a job (despite false promises by so many people). It's like I'm fighting for something I'm not going to enjoy anyway.

Just wanna run away out of the country without telling anyone. Maybe teach English to survive and then see where I go from there. Don't know - like I said, planning stages.

WHERE U GET MONI?

>>643229
Saved
Which cam?

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Sometimes I think it's because life in my home country is... easymode? Don't get me wrong, the economy sucks and the job markets a nightmare (USA!). But I like having to buy groceries and order food in a language thats not my own, I enjoy walking down streets 1300 years older than anything you'll find in my home country. I love discovering new ways to enjoy my favorite food and drinks. I like meeting people who were born and raised so different from myself, and hearing how they see things. I love tasting, seeing, smelling, and hearing the unfamiliar.

And when you're in a country where you don't speak the language... There's a kind of silence in your brain. A certain quiet that allows you to be alone with your thought like no other time (unless you're out in the wilderness or something). Every new place I go to I feel like experiencing life for the first time in a new way. Like the way you feel like a toddler unable to express yourself when you don't speak the language. It's scary sometimes, but exciting and new. It's true adventure.

>>643252

I used a Nikon D700 + 24-70 2.8 AF-S G.

FYI, I only just got home from a 9 month trip (Istanbul to Cape Town overland) and have not had much time yet to edit my pictures so that shot is not my final edit. It needs much more work.

>>643248
Work, shithead, and live cheaply.

I spent 200USD/month in Laos. You probably spend more just in Mac Dicks where you live.

>>643229
Thanks

>>643229

Saved as my desktop wallpaper. Between this pic and >>642995, to my albeit untrained eye I'd say you've got a talent for this man.