Journey through Asia as told by the water bottle

EEK!  I was almost stolen by a six year old Vietnamese child! YIKES! I saw my life flash before my eyes as I was headed to Tony's lips, which would mean that I would soon be deposited in a landfill.  I knew that if anyone else drank from me that I would be abandoned.  Have you ever been thrown down a garbage chute? I have. Others like me have been stolen, kidnapped, commandeered and lost.  You see, we are Barbara's water bottles. What do we have in common? We are all the water bottles which have---- We are her ------Barbara's journey through S.E. Asia. Our journey with Barbara begins at the airport in Sacramento, California, on DATE-----USA. This is the tale of her travels through Asia as told from the view of her water bottles as she flows throughout S.E. Asia.

Hello folks, I'm Barbara. I've been waiting 23 years to begin this journey. Why the long wait? I had 3 boys to get through high school graduation, and a bout with cancer, but now that everyone is on their way, so am I.  At the beginning of this journey I am a 56 year old woman from California and I am a budget traveler. Yes, the American dream has passed me by. I did everything right, went to college, got a degree, got a job. But I did one thing wrong, and I did it at age 40. I gave up a stable job and moved to a new town forgetting that I was in America, the worshipers of youth. Never again did I get a permanent job, but 16 years of part time and temporary work and numerous failed businesses is not going to discourage me from fulfilling my dream of traveling the world, I will just have to do it on a budget, thus, I have become, the TRAVEL THRIFTY PAST FIFTY budget traveler. If you are in the same boat as me, or if you just don't like to spend a lot of money, you too can travel and I will show you how to do it.

This isn't a hotel journey from one tourist spot to another, but a guide on how to live a life among local people, while finding ways to fund it along the way.  I have been traveling steadily for several years, remaing in each location for 1-6 months, meeting local people and learning about their culture.

The first paragraph is an example of how the first part of this blog will be written, from a 3rd person point of view. That's right, my water bottles's point of view.

Budget tip: Travel with a bank card which reimburses all ATM fees and foreign transaction fees.




Are you a budget traveler? What's your story?