I apologize if you've heard this all before and you're just stuck in a low paying shithole, however, if not, this could be helpful.
I recommend reading
mrmoneymustache.com. He's a financial blogger focused mainly on one thing: getting enough money to do whatever you want. In your case, travelling. Which is good, too, because travelling can be a relatively cheap lifetsyle if done right. To sum up his what his blog says:
Save 50-80% of your income and invest everything you can in Vanguard index funds, one good one being VTSAX, their Total Stock Market Index. The reasoning being that the total stock market, as a whole, has returned an average of 7% return annually after inflation. Yes there will be ups and downs, so toughen up cupcake and leave your money in there, the only possible exception being you are starving or dying of thirst. If not, it stays. the fuck. in there. And you will make money. Because after time passes, you'll get your average return (historically speaking..).
Ok what I thought would be a small list of points ended up being long because I didn't want to give suggestions without reasoning. So apologies.
Next is just live close to work, commute by car as little as you can, and downsize on living space so you pay less every month.
Those are the 3 highest expenses draining your money, and the spiel about investing is the most effective way to gain more money outside of improving your career (so if you're stuck in a downward spiraling job keeping you at low wages forever, look to investing).
And that's it. Now, this strategy won't have you travelling the world in a week. You need to seriously work your ass off and save your money for several years. But if your travelling expenses are 5-10k yearly, you can be travelling almost indefinitely in as little as 5 years (proof for that at
http://earlyretirementextreme.com/).
So a lil bit of prep goes a long way. If u don't want me proselytizing I'll go away :)
