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You can have fun while you travel, but if you plan on working on the road, strive to achieve work-play balance.

7 Things I Would Have Changed During My Travel

I have had five months to reflect on the 11 months that I travelled, and I can say that I would like to go back in time and give my 27-year-old self some frank advice. However, I can’t do that. Instead, I’ll give that advice to you, and hopefully, you won’t repeat some of my […]

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Kyle spent two days on a sailboat sailing through the Panama Canal.

Sailing the Panama Canal

Working overseas isn’t always waiting tables or teaching a classroom full of English students. Sometimes, it can be on the deck of a ship. That’s what British Columbia native Kyle Mateo did for 17 days on two boats in Central America. His goal was to go through the Panama Canal. “It was just an incredible […]

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My friend Dillon plays chess at the Black Cat Hostel in Antigua, Guatemala.

Working While Traveling: Bartending at a Hostel

The last thing that I wanted to think about when I started traveling was working, but it’s an easy way to keep more money in your pocket and get to now a city better. “It didn’t feel like a job. I was working five hours a day and drinking the rest,” my friend Dillon McCord […]

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