29-year-old Australian blogger Tyral Dalitz went on a journey from Sydney and arrived to San Diego, after spending 976 days on the road. He reached his destination by cars, trains, motorcycles and buses, as well as on foot and hitchhiking.
The traveler covered a pretty long distance of more than 80,000 kilometers from Australia to America – through 50 countries – without stepping on the board of the plane.He slept on other people’s sofas, set up a tent in the desert and chose the “cheapest and dangerous” routes, because he was looking for adventures.
The epic journey took almost three years and cost him $ 22,000. Tyral worked on a farm to make money. He chose such a difficult route, because he wanted to enjoy the trip, and not just the destination. He says he covered more than 80,000 kilometers and planned to continue the journey, to the horror of his girlfriend Hannah Altschwager, who he had not seen him for nine long months in a row.
“The population of Oaklands on the east coast of Australia, where I grew up, is only 300 people. I have nothing to do there, so I always had a desire to leave this place,” – says Tyral.
“Since I started out, I got sunburnt, lost weight and made a lot of friends. It was an incredible experience. The biggest lesson I learned from all this is that there are good people everywhere: in any situation, I always met someone who wanted to help me.”
“Initially, it was just an adventure and a challenge to myself, but now I want to complete a round-the-world trip and return to Australia.” In Australia, Tyral’s mother and his girlfriend are waiting for him.
Before embarking on a journey on July 26, 2014, Tyral lived in a van and traveled around Australia, working on farms in all corners of the country.
He sailed from Australia through Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, Laos and Cambodia and took a motorcycle ride all over Vietnam. From Vietnam he went to China and Mongolia, then jumped on the train and went to St. Petersburg. Then he traveled for 12 months, hitchhiking across Europe, visiting 33 countries, and arrived to London on the Christmas Eve.
There he found on Facebook a team that moved across the Pacific Ocean to America. He joined them and they together went to the Canary Islands, the Caribbean and the Panama Canal, Mexico, and, in the end, Tyral found himself in San Diego, California, where he is now.
“Initially, I just wanted to go to London without the help of a plane. I found a couple of people of retirement age who needed help on the boat, and left Australia with them. Then I got on another boat, and then on one more – everything developed swiftly.”
“Before I left Australia, I worked for 18 months and collected about 24 000 US dollars. It was enough amount of money to spend during these three years. I saved money spending daily about 8-12 dollars.”
“The world is not as scary as people show it to us,” says the traveler. And he is so damn right! But you can’t check it out just sitting at home. Leave your comfort zone, start doing something and soon you will see how your life changes for better!!!