As promised, it's the fantastic Ireland Trip Report! I was nervous about this whole thing, jumping on a plane to a random contry you know not a soul in, hoping you've got a place to sleep, enough money in budget, and luck will bump you into some friendly faces. But wow- Now that I've done it, I can't wait to go everywhere else. One of the biggest eye openers for me was that there is a whole travel culture, people who just hop from place to place learning and exploring and making friends, for years at a time. I met people my age who have already been through most of asia, india, and europe. It's not as hard or scary as it looks to be, and you don't have to be rich or wait till you
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