Graduating with six figures in student loan debt, buying a brand new car, and other poor decisions with money didn't help.

畢業時負債六位數的學貸、買了台全新的車，以及其他不智的用錢決定，這些都毫無助益。

But once I got straight with my priorities,

不過一旦我搞清楚我想要的優先順序，

when I realized what I really wanted out of life, things started to click.

當我理解我人生真正想要什麼，一切開始明朗清晰。

I began to chip away at my debt, paying off my car loan, and making room in my budget for travel.

我開始慢慢清償我的債務，付清車貸，並開始挪出旅遊預算。

What I've come to learn is that travel actually doesn't have to be expensive.

我所學到的是，旅行其實並不一定要很昂貴，

Or at least it doesn't have to feel expensive.

或者說至少不需要覺得昂貴

The problem is that for most of us, our budget gets swallowed up by other things before we even start to plan our trip.

問題在於對大部分的我們而言，我們的預算在開始計劃旅行之前，就被其他的事物併吞了。

When you spend less money on clothes and cars, when you stop living outside your means,

當你在衣服和車子上少花一點錢、當你停止過著入不敷出的生活、

when you stop ordering that thing from Amazon that's so important that you need it one day,

當你停止從亞馬遜公司訂購「重要」到有朝一日才會需要用到的東西，

you start to save more, and from there you have a choice.

你開始存下更多錢並且從這個著力點上有了選擇。

You've got a choice about how to spend your money and where to spend your time.

你有了如何花錢及去哪消磨你的時光的選擇。