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No Money But Let’s Travel!
Submitted by: Dillon H
waukesha, WII am a 21 y.o. eager traveler always looking for a good experience.
Hi, my name is Dillon and I am a firm believer in The Secret. Many unexpected things in my life have come about through the LOA and I’d like to share one of them.
I had just turned 20 and was renting my first house with my brother and 2 friends. I had a steady job and had just started dating my beautiful girlfriend who I have now been with for over a year so things were going great.
But, I wanted an unforgettable experience. I had a dream to travel the US with just a backpack strapped on my back. We had just signed a year lease and it was March but I wanted my travels to start in May. So I kept on with my job but that just wasn’t making me very happy. I dreaded going to work for 10 hrs. to operate a press.
Traveling was the only thing on my mind, so mid April rolled around and I decided to get one more check to get travel gear. I needed a backpack, sleeping bag, boots, cooking pot, a good blade, first aid, etc. So my final paycheck came and I quit my job and my friend and I went to Cabellas to get my bag. I found a really nice bag for around $100 and a good sleeping bag on sale for $40. It felt great to have the essentials. I was still unsure of how I was going to travel though I couldn’t just leave all of my friends behind to pay the rent themselves.
The universe heard me and answered my prayers. We got back to the house after buying my bag and my brother informed me that he was moving to California and was breaking the lease!!! I was so excited as I knew I was going to travel. But I had no money since I spent my last check on the things I needed for my bag.
How on earth was I going to get the money to travel all the way to California from Wisconsin with not a cent? I didn’t worry though, I knew it would work itself out some how.
A week before everyone was going to leave I got home and parked my car. As I was walking through the front door a loud and powerful gust of wind blew, bringing rain and thunder with it. Boom, crash, smash!! Glass breaks and car alarms sounded!
I walked out the front door to see that that the roof of my car had been caved in, the back glass smashed out by a giant tree branch that the wind had knocked loose from our neighbors tree. Ha ha, most people at this point would be furious but I was amazed and laughing. It was one of the coolest things that I had seen while living there.
So now my car is totaled and I have no money. but I still knew that in a week I would be on the road. Turns out the tree was in our neighbors yard and was supposed to be removed but never was so he called his insurance company. Two days later the insurance guy came to look at the car and wrote me a check for $1,467.00. the biggest check I have ever gotten.
I got my car fixed for only $200 and had the other $1267 to take on the road!!
It was an amazing summer. I traveled for 2 1/2 months, hitchhiked up the whole west coast, hopped 2 trains and safely made my way back home to Wisconsin.
I’m now 21 and plan to travel Europe this summer. I have faith that the Law of Attraction will show me the way.
Live, love and learn!!!!!!!!