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Originally Posted by Gatorade Frost
At Longbough - How did you afford living in the UK for a year and afford traveling all across Europe for the time that you did? Did you live in one place for a few weeks and work odd jobs or something, or did you just save up your money and made one big travel across the continent for a few weeks before returning to America?
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I left everything to go to go abroad for medical school - so I was in the UK for clinical rotations. In the end I knew I could pay off everything. It made more sense than just "slumming-it." So the tough part was getting into medical school and having the long-term goal of being a doctor. So, not only was it travel, but I had something to show for it all in the end.
When I was living in the UK a trip to France was just a trainride (via Eurostar) away. A trip to Spain was like a flight from San Francisco to LA. A trip to the highlands of Scotland was just a matter of renting a Fiat (and teaching myself to use the gearshift with my left hand ...) and driving north along a chain of lochs until I reached Fort Augustus at the tip of Loch Ness.