44 Budget Traveling Memes for Globe Trotters With Middle Seats in Economy

Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor

Sep 26, 2023 8:00 PM EDT

Traveling is rad. You can change your scenery, try new foods, experience new cultures, and soak up the sun at a different latitude. For 1%ers, travel has never been easier! They just hop in a private jet, shield their eyes to their CO2 emissions, blind once and BOOM– Cote d'Azur! For the rest of us, you're probably looking at 20+ hours of slumming it at the airport, getting probed by TSA, and carrying half of your belongings on your back. By the time you arrive anywhere that looks remotely like all those tourism pictures you studied, your feet hurt, you haven't slept in days, and you might be malnourished… But you're there.

That's the beauty of budget traveling, we may complain about the journey, but it's the destination that really makes it all worth it. So while you're waiting at your gate in the airport, here's a complimentary carry-on bag full of memes to scroll.