karmicintent

i'm intrigued as to how you did this on less than $4000- does that include flights, insurance, immunisations and visas? or just the travel costs (accomm, food etc). also, you did work as an aupair- is that how you saved the money to travel?

great that you could do that, how many months of your trip were you not working? yeah it sucks travelling on a non- US/ Aussie/ Canadian/ EU passport like my partner and i did- have to pay for lots of visas, have to have travel insurance to enter many countries and had to have the yellow fever vax (for south america and africa). hope you get to travel more and do it on a small budget!

most travellers i have met who are successfully doing long trips and making money, are doing something related to the internet- such as marketing, photography, graphics, website design or running an online business. means anywhere can be your home and you have very portable and needed services useful all over the world.

ditto.. couchsurfing and the friends we made doing it- best thing about our trip!

i have to say i haven't had good experiences with expedia, personally. if everything goes smoothly, they can be worth it, but any blip on the radar and it goes awol. used Orbitz.com and found they usually have the cheaper flights overall. generally such websites are even cheaper than buying from the airlines because they buy in bulk. i think what op uses is also great!