She's seeing the world and not paying for any of it.
By Shannon Ullman — Written on Jul 12, 2017
I’ve thought of every possible way to travel for cheap or for free. In the past, I have slept on the couches of strangers, booked a bed in a hostel room of more than 50 people, and slept in my car.
While I’ve been willing to go to some extremes to save a few cents, one thing that never crossed my mind was to have sex with married men. I mean, hey, I’m not saying that there’s anything wrong with that. If men are willing to take this woman to exotic destinations and pay for years worth of memories and cultural experiences, why not? This just isn’t something that I would want to do.
However, Heidy Pandora is a woman who sleeps with married men for free travel and says that it’s these married men, and the trips that they offer her, that saved her life.
After suffering from depression for over two years, Pandora started travel-dating in order to fund her jet-setting lifestyle. This 24-year-old has spent the past three years traveling and has been to around 20 stunning destinations.
Using the dating site Miss Travel, Pandora has created the life of a "full-time-traveler" and has remained unemployed. While it may appear this way, she claims that she is not a gold digger.
Formerly working as a masseuse and now living in Orlando, Florida, Pandora spends her time traveling with married men.
"Some of the guys on the site are married. I don’t see it as such a big deal to have sex with married men. If they’re married and looking somewhere else, they’re not happy. Some of them don’t have any sexual relationship with their wives anymore."
Visiting places like Aruba, Hawaii, Thailand, Dubai, and Morocco, Pandora says that she doesn’t feel pressured to have sex and doesn't consider herself to be the other woman.
"If we connect, things happen. But if we don’t connect then we just have fun on the trip or I just come back," she says. "I would love to find the one, but right now I just want to travel and see the world. So (dating married men is) an advantage in a way that they will not get emotionally connected to me. And they will not want to pursue anything because neither of us considers it cheating. I don’t pay for anything. You can do half and half but I prefer not to."
"I’m saving more for my own future," she continues, "so I don’t want to spend money on travel because it’s really expensive. I’ve traveled with different types of guys, but I didn’t have sexual relations with all of them."
After feeling so depressed that she didn’t want to live anymore, Pandora, who was only 21 at the time, decided that she wanted to travel.
"So I told myself ‘if today was my last day, what would I want to do?’ My dream was to travel but I could never afford it. It’s too expensive. My first trip by myself was to Mexico. As soon as I saw the blue water the depression went away. After that, I wanted to travel more, but I didn’t know how to. Then I came across Miss Travel and I kind of became addicted to it. It keeps me going in life. I still suffer from depression but it’s not as severe and traveling keeps me alive."
"I just came back from Dublin, Ireland, and I’m already working on another trip to Nepal. All my family know that I do this. My mum is actually really happy for me because she’s always wanted to see the world. Most people don’t have the courage to do what I do, traveling with strangers. It’s basically like a blind date."
With a few hundred followers on her Facebook page, Pandora gets a ton of feedback, much of it negative.
"I do not care about anybody’s opinion. Who doesn’t want to see the world? The people that probably judge me have maybe envy and jealousy. I have been called bad names before like a gold digger. But I don’t feel that way and when I’m on these trips I do not ask for money. I’m only on the website to travel and see the world. I’m not there to look for a sugar daddy. So if anybody wants to call me a bad name, I don’t take that because I know I’m not there for that reason."
While she has been given over a thousand dollars by some of these men and even offered the chance to live with them, Pandora says that she certainly isn’t a gold digger. She claims that she will continue with her lifestyle until she either falls in love with one of the men or decides she wants to do something else.
Maybe this woman who sleeps with married men for free travel is a genius because she’s right: people do want to travel the world but can’t afford it. So, she found a way to do it all.