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What You Need To Know Before Traveling The World

Visiting 21 countries wasn’t easy. Here’s what I learned.

Matt Lillywhite
5 min readNov 29, 2019
Photo by Roberto Nickson on Unsplash

How often have you dreamt of traveling the world? If you’re anything like my former-self, your response will be something like, “all the time.”

Right? We spend our days scrolling through Instagram, looking at pretty pictures of Thai beaches, and wishing we could head to the airport to catch a flight to anywhere but our current location.

We’ve all seen the luxurious lifestyle painted in Hollywood movies of private jets, giant yachts, and trips to the most exotic places on the planet. But having grown up in rural England, I always used to think that traveling the world was something that only wealthy people within society could afford.

I was wrong.

Over the past few years, I’ve had the opportunity to travel to 21 countries, four continents, and live a life that I once considered impossible.

How did I do it? I realized that the only thing separating people who dream of traveling the world, and those that do is first having the confidence to leap into the unknown. Bill Phillips said it best:

“The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.”

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Matt Lillywhite
Matt Lillywhite

Written by Matt Lillywhite

Storyteller and part-time procrastinator. Writing to inspire, entertain, and avoid doing laundry. Substack: https://mattlillywhite.substack.com/subscribe

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