Travel

You don't have to put your money in escrow, pay the water bill, electric bill, wifi bill, repair costs, paint the house or bedrooms, weatherproofing, maintenance fees, HOA fees, house insurance.

You can rent a private apartment/condo/house for $350 bucks a month and all of the above is included in your monhly/annual payment.

You don't have to "buy" a car, make monthly payments, pay for car insurance, register it annually, get the tags, none of those meetings at the DMV.

Public transportation, rideshares and private vehicles are available on the cheap. If you want a private vehicle, all of the above is included in your monhly payment.

You don't have to visit the most famous temple in the country, take a riverboat cruise or go scuba diving.

Take a week to watch all the marvel movies consecutively. Bake a tray of nachos the size of your oven. or take that riverboat cruise, if that sounded cool to you.

You don't have to commute to work, you don't have to wear a uniform, no team-building exercises. Find something remote(English speakers lucked out here) that pays about $500 USD a month and you can travel as long as you like in dozens of countries.

Build up passive income and gradually work less until you don't have to work at all.

There's a bunch of sedentary stuff travelers don't have to worry about! Let me know if you're curious about any of this, that girl chilling on the sofa is not me but it certainly is not not-me.

Seaweed snack spotted, perhaps.

update: Jimmyhats rather than regular hats off to @LongMember69@lemmy.world(considering their username), who has identified the fish!

I saw these guys in the same group of three in the same spot many times, but I can't identify them or find them on a list anywhere.

The closest kind of looked like a blue sapphire damselfish, three spot chromis or three spot damselfish, but if anyone has an idea what they might be instead, please let me know.

Snall, maybe 6-8cm, round body, shorter in length to height ratio than most fish from tip to tail, looked like a very bright solid blue across the body, I thought there was an actual black outline along the edge of the fish was but it's difficult to tell, and I didn't see any identifying colors on the tail or fins.

Merica is Indonesian for pepper.

6 of those dollars for the sliced yakiniku.

Lotte Grosir supermarket In Yogya, Indonesia. I figured I'd get some fresh fruit, make some beef jerky and then eat all of the snacks I hadn't tried yet.

The bamboo chicken was too interesting not to try. Marinated chicken wrapped in banana leaves, and then the recipe says grilled. Yum.

The egg was good too, if a little sweet for my taste, which seems to be the Javanese style. It isn't even too sweet, but there's sugar added to a lot of their savory dishes.

Yogya food

I don't know if I'd go to another country specifically for an animal, but I did decide to go to one of the only independently verified certified tiger sanctuaries in Thailand so that I could see and touch a tiger without feeling bad about their living conditions.

It was crazy to touch a tiger. It was crazy to see one, but it was really wild to touch one. Because they sure as hell were not sedated. One of them started sneaking up on me around the perimeter of the enclosure and after I tapped the guard on the shoulder and pointed him out, the guard had to like air-poke it back with a stick basically and asked me to walk back toward the exit, which was an insane security situation to find myself in.

I remember later I was standing on the outside of the reserve looking at some of the tigers along the fence posts because there were like covered huts around the perimeter of the reserve that the tigers lived in, and this couple walked up with their baby in a little carriage and all of the tigers' heads whipped toward the baby and followed it up and down the sidewalk the entire time the couple was pushing the baby around. The couple got uncomfortable pretty quickly and decided to leave. It was so clear all the tigers wanted to eat that baby.

Oh you know what, honorable mention panda, i did go to the Sichuan Panda reserve specifically to see the pandas, although that was not a very difficult trip and I was already living in Chengdu, there's a train that goes straight to the reserve.

I first found them in taiwan, and they became my favorite cookies right away. They just call them cookies in Taiwan. Then I found them in thailand, where they are called cookies. And everywhere I've found them since they are just called cookies, I've never come across any special name for them.

Do you know one?

AI says "gem biscuit", which is ringing a bell. I might have seen the word gem somewhere before on a bag of these.

Like any other skill, plumbing or ballet or computer science, speaking English is a skill that is highly valuable in the right market. In the case of English, marketable to 1 out of every 5 people on the planet.

There are over 1,500,000,000 people learning English right now and only 250,000 or so English teachers. That's over 6,000 students per teacher, so if you can speak English,well, you are qualified for and have access to jobs that pay $1600-$10000 a month and allow you to travel around the world if you choose to.

Teaching hours according to your schedule, curriculum material provided, flight vouchers, work visas provided, there are a whole bunch of benefits to teaching English abroad or online.

English is so commonplace to English speakers that it's often overlooked as an extremely valued and valuable skill in most of the world.

If you have any questions, ask away!

Is this an Indonesian thing? Not much beer here so they do have a lot of soft drinks.

From Indonesia.

Someone else stomped its head before I came across it.

The further from a city center I am, the better the food gets. Even the hotpot buffets have a better hotpot base, meat and sides selection.

And boy if you live in Indonesia first, you're in for an inexpensive intro to traveling.

Hey there Lemstituents, I’ve been traveling for about 15 years.

You can access quality housing, food security, health care, education, transportation and other basic civil amenities abroad that may be otherwise unaffordable or inaccessible to you.

If you have a remote job that pays over $500 USD a month, there are over a hundred countries you can be living in. If you make over $1000 USD a month remotely, the world is wide open.

If you don’t have a remote job yet, teaching English on or offline pays $1600-10,000 a month.

You can use the extra time and money to figure out how to get closer to your dream job, dream country or chill out and watch movies or play video games all day.

Stay out of the US 11 out of 12 months(calendar year, not tax year) and you don’t pay federal income tax on your first ~$126,500 USD that year.

Ask questions here and feel free to post in the community.

Oh that's a monitor lizard in Lumpini Park in Bangkok, there's a bunch there that are super chill and walk around the park. Go check 'em out.

sate padang daging.

$1.50

Love discovering new bites everywhere

Condo incl. utilties and Wifi - $230/month

rice cake+6 beef skewers+stew - $1

Savory layered 12-pc crepe - $1.50

soft drink - $0.20

40 minute rideshare - $2.60

custom eyeglasses(lenses and frames) + vision test - $10

stir-fry/fried rice/fried noodles - $0.75

visa on arrival - $30

AYCE buffet - $9

motor scooter rental - $3 per day

1 month 5g sim card w/ 20GB data -$6

If you have any price requests, ask below and I'll answer or find out while I'm here.

Crispy fried omelette. It's savory and salty with vegetables and beef and egg fried crispy on the outside, it's verrrry goood.

I asked a couple guys what martabak was, and one of them said just wait, threw some money on the counter and asked the other guy to make me one.

I tried to pay him several times but he wouldn't hear of it, and we ended up having a really interesting conversation; he shared a bunch of the local mythology with me, and then we shared the savory martabak, with apparently I couldn't put off eating long enough to get a better picture of.

It was a very solid meal that I am finishing off now while I wait for the heaviest of the current monsoon to ease.

Love me some thunder!

Pronounced Jog ja, with js

Any Indonesians know what the 5-3 is?

I didn't see the skate park outside, so I imagined it inside like the teenage mutant Ninja turtles movie.

For some reason, asian countries only make sweet jerky, even if it's labeled salty, except i think mongolia. Yak jerky is the best.

Anyway, mongolia and their yak jerky, my favorite jerky, shortlisted.

Some of the best breading and frying I've ever had, but I think the shell was left on? And the head, so that was a little surprising.

Couldn't really notice under all the flavor in the crunch though.