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Why Spending Your Money on World Travel Is an Investment
And why the returns are potentially huge!
“Yeah, motherf*****s! LET’S DO THIS!”
Do what?
“Blow all the money on travel, of course! You only live once! YOLO! Carpe diem! Carp fish! Travel is an investmeeeeeeeeeeent!!!!! Hawaii, here I come!!!!! Wohooooo!!!!!!”
Okay. Hold on a sec. Let me stop you right there. And please put that godawful Hawaiian shirt back in the drawer. It’s about to give me a seizure.
When I say world travel is an investment, I mean it. It’s just as much an investment as buying property or putting your dough into an index fund. But you’re apparently confusing world travel with something very different — a vacation.
Taking an extensive trip around a good chunk of the world is not a vacation. World travel doesn’t involve entire months of sipping piña coladas while lounging in a pool that contains as much sunscreen and tourist armpit sweat as water.
As shocking as it might sound, most places on this planet do not have pools and butlers who serve you drinks. So if you were planning to head from pool to pool as if you were some sort of water buffalo, you wouldn’t be traveling the world. You’d be a rich prick jet setting from one resort to another.
