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1. How friends think you made the decision to travel...
2. How you really made the decision...
3. Actually, this was your first idea...
4. Quitting my job today. Man this is scary!
5. Last two weeks at work. Time is going so sloooowly.
6. Finally, your last day at work!
7. Getting your god-damned travel visas in order...
8. Finally achieving your travel budget savings goal!!
9. Time to leave your home and explore the unknown...
10. Getting settled in a new country.
11. How it feels when you're spending foreign currency.
12. How people think Americans act abroad.
13. How Americans really act abroad.
14. Your unrealistic expectation about how travel will change your life...
15. Your first sip of the local brew...
16. Drinking the same thing three weeks later...
17. What you want to see when you enter your hostel dorm...
18. What you actually see when you enter your hostel dorm...
19. How you feel having a hostel dorm all to yourself...
20. How you look when you don't speak the language...
21. How you **feel** when you don't speak the language...
22. Trying the local street food for the first time...
23. Have a conversation about where you're from and how long you've been traveling for the billionth time...
24. How it feels to have the freedom to explore the world!
25. Leaving your fancy camera on a train...
26. Saving money by going without air conditioning...
27. When you're friends ask when you're planning to come back home...
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