auparis

I embrace the bro.

Excellent question.

I buy plane tickets pretty far in advance so I've got time to shop for the best price.

I couchsurf as much as possible or stay with friends. I'll usually deliberately visit a city where I know I have a free place to stay.

I don't buy souvenirs.

I rarely go out to eat.

And I generally limit myself to one over priced touristy thing per city.

You also seem cool. The definition of feminism is equality with men if I'm not mistaken... sometimes it get's misconstrued.

I never had a specific check in with anyone, no "If you don't hear from my by Friday, I'm dead in a gutter".

When I would couchsurf I'd send the profile of my future host to my mom and/or friends. Most of my trips I had planned in advance and sent the itinerary to my family. So if I went missing they'd at least have an idea of where I was.

I'd say that's a load of shit. Traveling can be very eye opening and inspiring, but self discovery and awareness should happen all the time.

I learned a ton though! It would be VERY difficult to list. One of the more interesting sounding things was learning to make dumplings from a mongolian throat singer in Sydney.