{"id":5492,"date":"2025-08-25T13:47:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=5492"},"modified":"2025-08-25T20:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:30:11","slug":"rich-kid-travels-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2025\/08\/25\/rich-kid-travels-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Rich kid travels the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/articles\/teen-solo-traveled-92-countries-150000506.html\">Teen Who Solo Traveled to 92 Countries Shares Life Changing-Lessons \u2014 and Why His Parents Said Yes (Exclusive)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-data.com\/income\/income-Westlake-Village-California.html\">median household income in Westlake Village, CA<\/a> &#8211; his hometown &#8211; is $172,000\/year as of 2023. He apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toacorn.com\/articles\/from-westlake-to-the-world\/\">earned the money and paid for the trip <\/a>himself but was able to take the luxury of a &#8220;gap year&#8221; after high school. He had previously traveled internationally with his family. He Dad was co-founder of ProDIGIQ, Obviously, he&#8217;s a pretty smart teen who managed a complex travel itinerary and logistics &#8211; but he also had access to resources and support that most do not have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He (apparently) paid for the trip himself, could afford to take a gap year, and does come from a wealthy, well-traveled background.  A talented Intenational traveler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-globally-experienced","category-travel-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}