For the last 4 odd years I’ve enviously watched my younger brother Sam make numerous travel plans where he saves enough to get him to his first destination and then manages to wing his way around the world on exciting adventures. When my 25th birthday loamed, an over reactive quarter life crisis snapped me into finally booking some travel plans of my own. Unlike Sam, I studiously mapped out 3 months of jampacked travel (actually my travel buddy Tamsyn did most of the research but I did agree with everything), saved enough money on top of this to set myself up in Edinburgh afterwards and bought a bunch of travel friendly accesseries. A pathetically text book first time traveller. Impressively I left NZ with 17kgs of luggage....suprising myself and my Dad who has often commented
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