Im 19, dude, i have 500 dollars and i want to travel for a while. then come back and re assess my life?

Question

I live in huntington beach. my mind is lost lately. cant find a drive to do anything. any ideas on where to go? what to do? traveling options?

Answer 1

costa rica or Belize

Well I guess thats out... I was poo-poo'd on that idea. You could Hitch up to the Pacific northwest, mushroom picking season is coming on, those guys can make pretty good money,or go to Phoenix for the winter, Be a caddy on a golf couse, you can make 150.00 a round caddying. Get a job on a crab boat, Have some adventure while you are young. Find a circus to travel with, No really! become a roady for some band.

Volenteer to go to africa or Nepal and teach kids. Peace corps. get a job on a tugboat traveling the pacific rim, join the military, do searches on the internet about this stuff, There is lots of volenteer work available. try to get on a fire crew. Or an offshore oil rig. 500.00 is only enough to get you somewhere, you will have to work when you get there, unless you can become a Gigelo (companion) somewhere. Try to get a job doing driveaways, where you get some money to drive someones car to another state. Or dogwalker, house sitter, oyster shucker in maine or Seattle, Throw a dart at a map and buy a bus ticket.

National parks always hire Young people to work there, Like Crater lake, Or Oregon caves, or Yellowstone

Answer 2

500 dollars will get you a week end at t local motel 6.

Answer 3

no where with such little money!

Answer 4

500 is not really that much, and you run the risk of getting stranded somewhere...

you can go on a trip for about 5 days if there is no flying involved. - 100 a day for motel/gas/food/fun?

best bet is to fly somewhere and stay with a friend and have them show you around.

orr go camping of some sh*t, thats always fun and cheep.

Answer 5

join the military NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 6

If you plan on sleeping in your car, you can go quite a while.. research somewhere around you.. stop near lakes and stuff to take 'baths'.. Pee safe haha.. remember toilet paper.

Find somewhere interesting to head to.. and just go there.

Answer 7

go to florida they say it's relaxing there

Answer 8

That should be just enough money for a couple of days at Disneyland ...  You can travel to Advventureland, Space Mountain and see the sights in an African Jungle.....

Answer 9

With only $500 that's not much.  Why don't you drive to Mexico and see how some improvished Mexicans live.  Maybe that will give you enough drive to do something with your life.  

Answer 10

The is what recently happened to me... i was driving from sydney to brisbane (australia) and i picked up a hitcher, thought it would be good company for a trip... got talking....

...turns out this dude was swiss, and he thumbed a lift from Geneva to Sydney over a 5 year period via BAGDAD??? he heard about the war that was about to start in feb 03 and decided to 'go and check it out' , got into jordan and everyone was taking cars over the border into iraq to make money taking people out , so he hithed in... stayed for three months and carried on via asia with no real agenda. He had no money from the beginning and was relying on food, handouts from whoever he met on the way. Wow, he had some stories, and he done it all without any money at all. Nothing nil zero.

Maybe you could try something like that???

Answer 11

You should go to Argentina, learn spanish. Or Brazil and learn portuguese. 500 will go alot further in south america.

Answer 12

To drive up to 800 miles one way will cost you around 100 dollars , stay at motel for 4 days can be up to 100 dollars ,  looking for fun can cost you 200 dollars or more !  then no more money left.    call mom and dad to come get you when your car broke down some where in 500 miles no where places ?    cause you have no more money !

Answer 13

With $500 you could probably go around your block few times.

Answer 14

There are LOADS of website on the net which run programs for travelling though most of them are more expensive than $500.. type gap year or student travel into google and you get loads of hits..for example:

http://www.gap-year.com/browse2.asp?catI...

Just have a look what would suit you.

Answer 15

you need more money

dont think about anything tell you have 3000$ to waste

other wise youll come back even more confused

Mexico is nice if you want to get laid and come back  

Answer 16

Sleep it off?

Answer 17

if you absolutely have your mind set on traveling theres greyhound thats the cheapest form of travel I know of but with 500 bucks your not going to get far you need to save up some more money if you can