How I Left Home with $4000 and Travelled for 4 Years

Daisy Mae
May 8, 2016
1 min read

by Jessica Wray

''This coming February I’ll have been traveling for almost four years straight. Most times were spent in one specific location for an extended period of time, others were spent backpacking and moving constantly. A few times I flew home to spend a couple of months there before transitioning and packing up for somewhere else.

It’s crazy to think of all the places I’ve been and how 4 years ago I was just graduating from university. If you would have told me then that I’d still be traveling today, I think I’d be pleased, but also completely surprised. I always thought I’d take a year or two abroad and then come back to the U.S. and settle down like everyone else. I figured this was the only path there was...''