Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, the show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge,

skills, insight, and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now while

building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My guest today is Philip Frye from the website Valiant Growth.

Philip, you're going to give us all the tools and tactics we need to travel rich today

even without a lot of money is that right?

Exactly.

So I you've been a long time listener of radical personal finance and we had some

long time patron as well and we were having some conversations and I came on your show and you said I like to come

on radical personal finance and I said well what do you want to I said what do you want to talk about

and he said well I'm an expert at extreme travel let me tell about my my frugal trip across Europe on a

student's budget and I love this approach to life and I love how traditionally

there's a culture of students traveling and traveling cheap and having their perspectives

in their world opened up a little bit without a lot of money, but in many ways it's lost

in our modern culture.

Many people view travel as something they can only do as when they're

rich and when they have lots of money to spend. So I'm really looking forward to this.

So tell us, to start off, tell us a little bit about your background and how you wound up heading across Europe on a student's budget.

So at the time, this was three years ago, and at the time I was 20. I had just dropped out of college and I had a bit of free time on my hand but the

trip itself was pretty accidental.

So we, a friend and I, we headed out to a camp in a neighboring country, kind of a youth camp kind of thing.

And on our way back, we said,

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