Hi, I’m Maya — and I’m living proof that you don’t need to be rich to see the world.
Four years ago I was sitting at a marketing desk in Austin, Texas, staring at spreadsheets and dreaming about everywhere I wasn’t. I had $2,000 in savings, two weeks of unused vacation, and absolutely zero idea what I was doing. So I quit.
I bought a one-way ticket to Bangkok, stuffed everything I owned into a 40-litre backpack, and told myself I’d figure it out as I went. That was 43 countries ago.
I started this blog because I was tired of travel content that made budget travel look either miserable or impossible. ThriftyVoyage exists to give you the honest version. The real costs. The actual hacks. The things that worked and the things that spectacularly didn’t.
See more. Spend less. No fluff.