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I slept in a hammock strung between two palm trees on a beach in northern Colombia for eleven nights. Total […]

Six of us crammed into a six-bed dorm in Kraków in 2018. By night two, two people weren’t speaking. By

I booked a one-way flight to Bangkok in 2016 with three nights of accommodation sorted and nothing after that. No

I’ve been scammed in eleven countries. Not robbed, not mugged, not held up at knife point — scammed. The slow,

I booked a Friday night flight to Marrakech during a Tuesday morning standup. Camera off, mute on, half-listening to someone

I once watched a guy at Bangkok’s Don Mueang airport pay $85 in excess baggage fees for a suitcase he’d

I’ve spent more nights folded into a bus seat than in actual beds. Not exaggerating. Nine years of travelling cheap

I was sitting on a plastic stool in Hanoi, eating bun cha that cost less than a dollar, when a

Seven days. That’s the window most of us actually get — not the six-month sabbatical we keep pinning to a

I was flat broke in Antigua, Guatemala, eating beans for the fourth day straight. My bank account held 47 dollars.