Traveling is expensive, some are able to travel free?

Hi bystander!^^ I agree! Those people who can travel for free are very lucky! I wish I have their kind of job.^^ But then, I think it's also hard, like for journalists, even if they can travel for free, the pressure to produce a very good output is there. They have to do their work properly and produce better results to compensate the expenses in their travel. I work in a government agency and some of my officemates get to travel for free. The office sometimes send them as representatives to trainings, seminars and workshops organized by other offices, or another country. The office/agency/country sends invitation to our office requesting for a representative and our office selects who to send there. The representatives then go there for work but they are also given the chance to explore the place. So they work with pleasure. I wish I can have that chance in the future.^^

Even I find it strange, but I have at times traveled around, essentially for free by busking. I take my guitar and play along the way! It can be rather scary at times though. Especially if you're not careful with the cash you have. It's a wonderful lifestyle though. At one time I actually thought I was the first to try and do this! Then I found out that there were tons of famous musicians that started out this way!

Business travelers spend lots of time at meetings in offices. They don't often get to see many of the tourist sights. A journalist might have to report from close to a war zone. A teacher of English as a Foreign Language can have a lovely time teaching students. He or she will have a little time to sight see. I am an independent traveler and I travel for leisure purposes. I usually buy a flight to a gateway city and then travel around a region. I stay in locally owned guest houses and unusual accommodation. When I was 18 years old I worked as a children's nanny in Finland. That gave me enough money to travel around Europe by train. I did a working holiday in Australia when I was 20 years old. That helped me pay for my trip around the world. I studied in the Netherlands for four months when I was studying for my degree. I used to be a budget minded backpacker. I stayed in youth hostels and camped in my tent. I found that I met other travelers and have a really enjoyable time. I didn't spend all that much money.

TO me, i think the least expense travel is when you are on a working foreign trip send by your company, or by the government in the case you are a public employee or even in the military service/ . In all these cases, your employer send you to foreign country for assignment, training or just learning lesson with all expenses paid and also with travel allowances, the only drawback is you will not have much time to go around on your own sweet time and will not have whole day to visit places of interests in foreign country. It costs the least on you but not really the best way to travel to foreign country in my personal opinion unless you are satisfy with just stop by your dream foreign destination only.

Even if i had the opportunity to travel the world, it would not be possible as you will only be able to see a few places and then you run out of money. So, waht will be the use of that? TATA.

I got to travel abroad for free once. I attended a training sponsored by my company, travel and accommodation plus allowance. That was cool. If you're a lucky guy, you might win some trip to somewhere which would also be free.