Map a Budget Around the World

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Map a Budget Around the World
Some countries are expensive, other countries are cheap, and here is a map to help you choose your path.

You want to know how I afford to travel the planet.

“A U.S. dollar exchanged and spent in India will buy more haircuts than a dollar spent in the United States.”
- Wiki on Purchasing Power Parity

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Fukuoka, Japan
Monday, October 6, 2008
Blog of Andy HoboTraveler.com --- Add a Hotel --- Travel Bag Design Survey --- Professional Traveler Bag
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I am in Japan, I am a poor person here, when I return to Thailand I will be rich. I challenge you to study this map below, this map in my opinion explains how I afford to travel the planet, and all the secrets are on this map. There is no point in me trying to explain this map; I truly believe you need to extract the secrets told in this map yourself.

For a little assistance, please ready this page on Wikipedia.org.
Purchasing Power Parity

Click on the map to make large.

When you understand this map, you have started on the path of least resistance. A smart traveler does not swim upstream; they know which way the current flows before they jump.

Then again, the majority never jumps; they stand still looking at the river pass them by.

For more great Maps to uncover the secrets of travel, go to this link on HoboTraveler.com. WayFinding Maps

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Map a Budget Around the World

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ash said on Monday October 6th, 2008 02:16:00 AM

Thanks for doing these maps Andy, they are consistently among the best travel resources about!Also, i've noticed you've started putting links to relevant information at the bottom of posts, this is also a great and useful idea!

Andy HoboTraveler.com said on Monday October 6th, 2008 02:21:00 AM

Hello Ash, thank you, I hope these maps help people. I have been wondering if anyone was going to comment on the links at the bottom of blog post.I finally found a way to do this easily without a lot of work. I love to be able to document or reference ideas as sources and ideas.

Anonymous said on Monday October 6th, 2008 07:13:00 AM

Hi Mr. Andy,I definitely concur with compliments for the links. Sure does take alot of the guesswork out of plotting, planning, preparing. It does get a bit overwhelming in one regard though. I have an awful hard time filing all the info away for reference. Your footwork does most of it thankfully. You are in unique position to do something else if I may ask. Nowhere can I find any worthwhile "reports from the field" regarding POV mode info (Personal Owned Vehicle). I just bought my old $1700 1989 14' U-haul Ford F-350. Thanks to a neighbor running a site (shadetreeconversions) hope to soon swap my Ford diesel for a tractor diesel common to the world. Perkins engines have about 7 parts and will go forever..hehe (As you probably are well aware of). Your comments on road conditions during your length stay, fuel access, impression of local mechanic abilities, etc. Any morsel would be great. Would also go a long way to making expensive 4X4 decision. You touched on these matters a bit with pics of a gas station in Thailand and of Africa. I truly believe you would be the only one on the planet providing such things in any fashion. A kind of Lewis and Clark without whats her name. Anyway, youve already done alot. Taught this old dog a new hobo mentality emphasising backpack living. Beyond that, my 14' box is largely a traveling outhouse. Ill have no windows so I reckon Ill paint on a crescent moon. Im sorry, these bones getting old and need routinely hot showers or baths, not to mention a reading throne...hehe. Appreciate your time and effort farmboy, take care.Cornbread