Never Say No To An Adventure

Traveling with 15% basically means to keep your trip unplanned. Obviously plan how much money you need, how you’re going to travel, but never more than that. 

People get so caught up with being here or there or when to be in that hypothetical there that they miss the most important part of traveling; (which is) to immerse yourself in the culture and the people where you go. And I’ve realized that the best way to do that (in my opinion) is by not planning, stopping just to stop, talking to the locals, actually living with the locals on the streets.  

Most of my favorite stories to tell about where I’ve been are small things like not knowing how to speak french in Switzerland and having to find my way from Geneva to Lausanne based on google translate. 

Or the time I wanted to take a photo of a cabin on a river and this old guy yelled at me to get off his dock while he threatened to shoot me. 

It’s small events you don’t plan that stay in your memories. Traveling with 15% means to go places to see and experience. Not to go just to say you went. Traveling has become such a physical aspect of moving when really travel is about testing yourself and seeing yourself grow through these experiences.