IT'S a typical dilemma faced by uni graduates everywhere: find a job, do some travel or perhaps spend some time doing something meaningful.

Faced with a summer of unemployment and unsure how to occupy his time, college student Daniel, decided he’d do all three.

In pictures: The world's kindest traveller

The 22-year-old, who only wants to be known by his first name, had a string of free flights under his belt so took to Reddit, offering to travel all over the world to do favours for those in need.

Daniel spent his entire summer travelling, doing good deeds for redditors, sleeping on floors and couches of complete strangers but never staying more than seven days in any given city.

Admitting he was in a privileged position being able to fly for free, he said he could easily have spent his summer partying but instead wanted to help people with whatever they needed - so long as it wasn’t anything illegal.



In his original post he wrote: "I want to have a Reddit-powered epic summer adventure. As a result of having a family member employed by a large airline, I have the ability to travel non-rev status (if there’s empty seats and no one ahead of me in line), paying only departure taxes. Want me to hand deliver a letter to someone across the country or overseas? Attempt to help you with homework?

The graduate, who attended university in Canada, was soon besieged in offers, whittling the 300 plus requests down and forming a short bucket list.

Within a week he was off on his adventure, helping people with everyday jobs in his native US, to teaching English in Bangkok to finding spiders in Australia and taking pictures of his travels with a toy duck which belonged to an eight-month-old girl.

During his 11 weeks, he visited four countries and took in several US cities, helping people with tasks such as washing a car for a family whose son had Down’s Syndrome in to moving couches in and packing boxes.

Now back home after his epic journey, he said his trip was both humbling and gratifying and wouldn’t rule out doing something similar again in the future.

In his final I survived post he reveals he will be donating the money via reddit for filming a documentary and planned to talk to the airline involved to explore the option of doing more on a larger scale.

“Something where you could vote on where to send me a on week to week basis."

In pictures: The world's kindest traveller