How To Travel The World (Without Unplugging)

Photo: Courtesy of Arikia Millikan.I spent the past year traveling around the world. I circumnavigated this pale blue dot from west to east — literally from L.A. to Tokyo — visiting 62 cities in 19 countries, by myself, with two suitcases and a laptop bag. I’m really not that fancy, though. In fact, anyone could do what I did. You don’t need a hot-air balloon or a rockstar budget — just the Internet and big case of wanderlust.



Now that I’m back in New York, everyone has been asking me how I did it. In the moment, I just did what came naturally to me, but in retrospect, there were a lot of practical details I figured out along the way that I wish I would have known before embarking on my journey. The world is almost 25,000 miles around and, if you travel somewhat aimlessly, like I did, you won’t be going in a straight line. Here are a few of the techy tricks and Jedi mind flips that got me over the Atlantic and back home again.

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