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So here's the master plan fellas and Rilla,
Mr. and Mrs. Bigred have a one-way ticket booked August 9, 2016 to Manila, Philippines. We both just turned 31 and 30 respectively and realize if we want to do family stuffs it probably needs to start soon. However, we've always been the people who talk about if we won the lottery we'd quit our jobs and travel the world. We haven't won the lottery but the plan is to save as much as possible over the next year, quit our jobs, and travel the world on a budget. The goal is to find sleepy towns with cheap rent, couch surfing, hotel point stays when we need a break, and anything else. It's less about going to the must see monuments in each country and more about finding places off the beaten path and staying for a few weeks in a family's extra room and immersing ourselves in the local culture. At a minimum we want to do 6 months but would love to stretch our budget out to 12 months, if possible. We shall see.
We'll spend the first month in the Philippines (Visas only last 30 days and require an exit flight) so we'll probably head to Hong Kong after as we have a good friend who just moved there for work. We made friends in Manila when we toured the Palawan islands with Tao Philippines (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFhbMaYTwCE) so we'll probably spend a few days catching up with them. Then the plan is to head so Sirigau, a small island, that has surfing and sleepy beaches. There's a few locals I'd love to catch up who were our tour guides on Tao but otherwise the plan is to take it easy.
At some point, we'll make our way to Chengdu, China where my wife will practice in a clinic. She's been studying Traditional Chinese Medicine for the last few years (why we moved to Austin) and this will be a great experience for her.
Other than that, we want to hit up most of Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, possibly Thailand but meh tourist path), do a lot of China, Tibet, and then make our way to Africa. Key stops in Africa include Kenya, Ethiopia, and Egypt.
We'd also love to do Latvia, Estonia, and other Eastern European counties. We don't plan on booking much in advance and we're cool with that. We visited South America last April with an arriving and departing flight and nothing else booked. Managed to hop our way around and found some awesome places you couldn't find if you researched on the web and planned everything up front. That's the plan for this trip.
So where do you come in? I talked about budget for 6-12 months. I'd love to find ways to generate income to extend this trip and poker is one of the ways I used to make money and once abroad, it makes a lot of sense. In order to make some real money, I need to build a BR and that's the goal of this Op.
Let's get started...
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