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Ask HN: If you had 15-20k to take a 2-4 week trip, solo, what would you do?
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Re: Ask HN: If you had 15-20k to take a 2-4 week trip, solo, what would you do?
#2The amount is enough to travel the world for a year. Unless you want to spoil yourself with first class flights and 5 star hotels you'd be hard pressed to even spent it.
How about climbing Mount Kilimanjaro (takes a week), then relax on the beach for a week and give the remaining 15k to a local orphanage?
Re: Ask HN: If you had 15-20k to take a 2-4 week trip, solo, what would you do?
#3Where are you? It is not the same if you are already in Europe, Asia, etc...
Re: Ask HN: If you had 15-20k to take a 2-4 week trip, solo, what would you do?
#4The amount is enough to travel the world for a year. Unless you want to spoil yourself with first class flights and 5 star hotels you'd be hard pressed to even spent it. How about climbing Mount Kilimanjaro (takes a week), then relax on the beach for a week and give the remaining 15k to a local orphanage?
It's a thought experiment. Assuming I haven't travelled in years and may not be able to again. Decadence was not the goal, as is neither spending or wasting all the money unnecessarily. It's the classic pickle, stay in a few places for a long time or barely get to know/appreciate multiple. Honestly looking for ideas I can expand on...
Re: Ask HN: If you had 15-20k to take a 2-4 week trip, solo, what would you do?
#5Where are you? It is not the same if you are already in Europe, Asia, etc...
American residing in US
Re: Ask HN: If you had 15-20k to take a 2-4 week trip, solo, what would you do?
#6Where are you? It is not the same if you are already in Europe, Asia, etc...
American residing in US
You could go to South America if you want to know new whole cultures. Though the big cities may look like the big cities at the United States, the lonely places are something totally new (search for Patagonia, for example).
If you want to know the big cities, including culture, I'd go to Europe. In four weeks you can visit culture capitols as Paris, London, Madrid, Rome, Berlin...
Re: Ask HN: If you had 15-20k to take a 2-4 week trip, solo, what would you do?
#7Pay for a good friend to go with you.
Re: Ask HN: If you had 15-20k to take a 2-4 week trip, solo, what would you do?
#8What I would do is unlikely to be what you would... There is a huge difference between 2 and 4 weeks.
With 2 weeks I'd possibly go to Antarctica because that's the only continent I haven't yet visited. With 4 weeks I'd visit the Galapagos, and walk some of the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. Or I might go to Greece.
Btw a decade ago I traveled around the world for one year, for less than that amount. Best year of my life.
Re: Ask HN: If you had 15-20k to take a 2-4 week trip, solo, what would you do?
#9Road trip with my 17 year old to visit everywhere I've been, and tell the stories that the visits would inspire. I'm in the US, and I've been as far west as Kenya, and as far east as England.
Re: Ask HN: If you had 15-20k to take a 2-4 week trip, solo, what would you do?
#10Road trip with my 17 year old to visit everywhere I've been, and tell the stories that the visits would inspire. I'm in the US, and I've been as far west as Kenya, and as far east as England.
I like this. Thank you!