There are so many ways to travel abroad and to do so cheaply! Traveling is one of the best ways to expand your global view and global competence. And as Mark Twain famously said,
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”