My 15 Best Travel Memories in 2015

The best memories in my life

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How To Live A Life Of Travel (and Create Amazing Memories)

This six-day trip will stay deep in my heart forever. It was raining a lot and strong wind was slowing me down. In the morning I woke up to the snow landscape. As the snow was getting into my tent, I was forced to get up really early and with a cup of green tea I sat on the shore of Berg Lake. T here was not a single soul. The water was so calm and the silence was only interrupt by crackling of glaciers hanging above the lake. In the deep red cedar woods where the blue icy river flows.

Stones and trees are heavily covered with moss, and everywhere are beautiful hand made dreamcatchers and candle lanters. And the best thing indeed - the hot water filling many small pools comes from a mystical waterfall cascading down the black cliff and you are just lying there, melting there thinking it's just too magical to be real I just knew t hat! I totally fell in love with Banff! I was never told Grand Canyon had a handsome brother. And to me even more attractive!

OK, so you stand here with your mouth open… The. I cried a lot while hiking 22km up to this lake. That day when I discovered this spiritual place… oh my! Just straight your arm in front of you and wait…. There are many clever strategies you can employ to travel around the world for low cost and sometimes even free. We have created a lifestyle of travel.

Otherwise you might quit on your dreams and travel goals. Glinda the Good Witch is a fantasy. The best way to do this is to live and work in expensive countries. Better to spend the local currency and save your own money for other adventures. I never could have travelled the UK and Europe on the Aussie dollar, so I lived in an apartment in London with many other travelers and earned pounds to travel on instead. Craig and I have followed the working holiday through 5 countries since Some of our richest travel memories come from the experiences we had living in another culture.

It is by far the best strategy to have a life of travel. There are so many jobs you can do! Here are 20 ways you can work and travel in Australia — one of the most expensive places to travel in the world. A working holiday will help you make it a reality. Do you want to live and travel in Australia? Here is our complete guide to the Australian working holiday visa.

Choose the countries that are cheap to travel to for the long-term. Your experiences become richer when you are not worrying about budgets and having to deny yourself. Is that luxury 5 star accommodation really worth it, especially if you are out exploring from sunrise to twinkling stars? Can you go the comfy 3 star hotel and have a little extra cash for the fun stuff? Do you need to eat in a restaurant for three meals a day or can you cook your own breakfast and settle for a picnic lunch? Take the extra cash and put it in your travel fund. Digital nomads and those creating their own travel lifestyles are becoming more common.

How to live a life of travel

If you want a life of travel, discover how you can make it happen. Want another creative way to be able to travel and live abroad?

Craig and I started this travel blog because we wanted travel to be our lifestyle. Our working holiday visa options were up due to age so we had to discover a new path. Our life of travel now continues with our two children because of our online business. We can live and travel where we want and earn a great income. We also road tripped around Australia for 18 months and are now currently road tripping the USA and exploring the Northern Hemisphere for the next three years … at least!

We have endless choice. There are plenty of ways you can make travel a focus of your everyday life. I like to say make travel your magnificent obsession. That means it fills your day dreams and night dreams. Every decision you make from now on is directed towards making that life of travel a reality. Once you start focusing on something, you start planning, and then usually the Universe helps you by bringing what you need to make it happen.

The small steps start to grow bigger and before you know it you are living the life of travel you thought was only possible for the lucky ones. Constant travel is tough. I often want to quit, but I never will because I have this huge why—a gigantic urge that only travel can fill. For many people a life of travel would suck!

Different strokes for different folks. You have to decide WHY you are traveling. What burning need are you trying to fulfill? How will this life of travel make a difference and why is this important to you? Is it constant travel from one country to the next you yearn for?

How To Live A Life Of Travel (and Create Amazing Memories)

Caroline Makepeace is the co-founder of yTravel Blog. She loves helping people unplug from the chaos, follow their bliss, travel more and create better memories. She has a free travel planning toolkit to help you do just that! Caz is the flighty Libran, bringing harmony to the family through crystals, meditation, and downward dogs and the odd glass of wine at 5pm.

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It's all about the balance, right? Follow her on Instagram. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. We have always thought that one day we would like to live a life of travel. Totally agree with working! Great tips, as always! We think it is the best strategy for travelling long term. Earn the money and travel at the same time—genius! I also managed to pay off credit card debt while I was working and travelling. It works so well. My dream some day is to work for a travel company eg airline,cruise company so I can get staff discounts so I can travel more!

That is a great strategy Maggie. I think travel really is possible for you. There are so many different ways to make it happen. You have to be a little creative but you can do it. I live in Sydney and have done full time since and off and on since My fave is to live in other countries and work — done in Italy, Pakistand, here in Oz and even… England!

I have a yen to live overseas again and am sure we will as a family one day. Meanwhile, the wee trips are SO mentally stimulating. Pakistan would have been an amazing experience. Every day is exciting and new and feels like a holiday. I found your blog last night on Pinterest and I am obsessed with it. I can relate so much to you Chaz. I am 21 graduating with my teaching credential and will be moving from California to Sydney in September for a year to be an au pair making Australia my 8th country, small in the big picture. I definitely have the travel bug and would love to follow in your footsteps.

Love all your tips!!! How Awesome Ryen and you can call me Chaz if you like!! You will love living here. Traveling allows you to see that the world is not always about you. It allows me to see how other people live and what they have to deal with on a daily basis. Traveling has humbled me and has broadened my perspective in so many ways. Traveling to places like Southeast Asia and other impoverished areas has given me a sense of gratefulness for the modern day comforts that I am able to enjoy. When I was a child, I used to read books voraciously.

I would read page after page and obsess over faraway lands. However, there are just some things and experiences that are too beautiful to put down in words. To me, one of the most beautiful things about travel is the fact that every day is different. There are no routines, no set rules, or no expectations. You can do what you want, whenever you please. I have been traveling the world together with my partner for over two and a half years now and one of the things we love the most is the freedom that travel and this lifestyle gives us.

But no matter, the road is life. Often times, I stop and reflect on how travel has changed my life.

Memories of My Life

And now I've created a life of travel with, and for, my children. I'm not a big counter, I count the memories, the experiences and the friendships. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. “Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily “It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way.

During these times, I realize how much travel is a part of me. During my teenage years, I would read books and wonder what it would be like to go to all these exotic places.

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It is so wild, every night I camped on the beach, grey whales were following my steps and eagles were watching me from above. It allows me to realize that there are far bigger things that my problems. Years ago when I was about to head off on a backpacking trip around Europe a colleague asked how I had managed to save so much money. If there is one thing I know, it is that life is short. I was never told Grand Canyon had a handsome brother. I often want to quit, but I never will because I have this huge why—a gigantic urge that only travel can fill.

I never thought this was possible for me but alas, travel opened up so many doors and opportunities for me that often times, I have to pinch myself. For me, travel is living. It is seizing each day and making the most out of every situation. Coming from the Philippines, saving enough money to be able to do a round the world trip was not easy. I hustled…and I hustled hard. Unlike most first world countries, you can get a part-time job during your university years to help build up your savings.

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In the Philippines, as minimum wage is low, you virtually have to work multiple jobs in order to make enough to save which is exactly what I did. I was a teacher at that time and worked from 7am-3pm. Afterwards, I would do private tutorials and work for another hours.

At one point, I was earning more from doing extra tutorial work than my job itself. My point behind this is while it seems that all I do now is travel, the quote work, travel, save, repeat is a favorite of mine. Although I no longer work a job, we still apply this theory as we save up for specific trips and holidays along the way. Teacher, to a principal, to backpacker, to travel blogger, and full-time digital nomad.

As cliche as it sounds, you can be anything you want to be as long as you have the courage to pursue it. The quote above is one of my favorite sayings of all time. If there is one thing I know, it is that life is short. We keep saying one day I will travel the world. One day, I will learn how to speak a new language.