Don't be silly. Hop a flight some day and you'll find no shortage of Plumber's Mates dirtbagging along on a few hundred bucks a month, picking up hostel desk &

Don't be silly. Hop a flight some day and you'll find no shortage of Plumber's Mates dirtbagging along on a few hundred bucks a month, picking up hostel desk & bartending jobs every few months to squirrel away some extra savings. Head down to Peru and you'll run in to gap year kids from Uraguay who are traveling around on their own savings. Uraguayan highschool job savings, which I hope we can stipulate doesn't fall in to the category of "wealth display" You're thinking of "vacations", which are in fact expensive. Traveling in the fun parts of the developing world is really quite cheap.