Lifestyle travelling

Lifestyle traveling is a type of alternative lifestyle practiced by people who travel for many years, usually from country to country.

Lifestyle travelers normally engage in free lance jobs, entrepreneurship, own companies, or temporary jobs.

Lifestyle travelers also dedicate to care for people, nature and culture, live and experience earth as global citizens.

In preference to "settling down" with a family or other traditional life goals, some lifestyle travelers can actually develop a career or even start a family.

To become a lifestyle traveler, it is necessary to change the normal way of understanding life and managing resources and decisions.

Young people often pursue a year or two of living abroad traveling, called a Wanderjahre, before settling down, returning to university, or otherwise resuming a regular lifestyle. This is known as backpacking. A very small minority, however, follow the path of the lifestyle traveler, as a path for a major part or even all of their adult lives.

Some lifestyle travelers purchase a sailboat, which allows a place to live and a mode of transportation at the same time. Others rely on cheap berths on cargo ships or modern aviation to take them from destination to destination, purchasing, for example, inexpensive standby or open-jaw tickets to meet the flexibilities of their schedule. Others, according to their budget and way to generate income, travel with a van, or have their own airplane, or even continue backpacking.

Popular destinations include Goa and other areas of India, Thailand, Mexico, South America, Vietnam, Cambodia, Algeria, Morocco, and to a lesser degree Egypt, Turkey, and Romania.

Lifestyle travelers, as opposed to short-term backpackers, tend to spend at least three to six months in their various home cities, usually to cut down on costs but also to get the full advantage from each new culture they explore. Stays of two, five or even ten years are not uncommon, at the far end of which the only distinction between being an expatriate and a lifestyle traveler is the certainty that one is leaving.