Originally Posted by
C-Gold
I'm going to have some time off and always wanted to go on an adventure like this.
Thinking of flying in to a main city, buying the Euro train pass for 600 to 700 bucks and bouncing around. Staying in various hostels and maybe a hotel here or there for when I need a good shower and rest. I sort of do NOT want to have a set plan so that I could just do whatever I feel like. If I like a city I could stay there a few extra days or just get the heck out if I don't like it. If I meet some cool people in a hostel then I could go with them, so I don't want to have set dates and places to go. I'm looking to spend between 2-3 dimes and to be gone 14 days to maybe 21 days max. A girl MIGHT come with me but I'm probably going solo.
1) Has anybody ever done anything like this?
2) Your suggested route, favorite places to go?
3) Your experience with hostels?
4) How much to expect to spend?
- I don't mind cheap hotels or hostels since I'll never be in the room. I do need to eat though, and I don't mind hitch hiking, I'm a big dude and can physically take care of myself. Depending how long I go what if I spend $600 flight/there back, $700 train pass, and 700 bucks would be $50 per day for 14 days to put me at a bare bones $2,000 on a very low budget. So realistically I'm looking at more like $2,500.
One day I was waiting for the public transit in my city and there was this middle class looking Asian kid with a bunch of travel bags and he asked me for bus fare. Now I do NOT give money to hobos and I don't buy their stories but I could tell this was a good kid in a bind. I would have wanted somebody to help me if I were him. So I gave him the 2 bucks or whatever and it turns out he was just coming home from a 6 month Euro trip and he ran out of money. He had just graduated college and went backpacking through Europe before he started working in the real world. He told me his stories and it was amazing. I want to go on my own trip and make my own stories.