This involved ridding ourselves of the possessions we've spent the last 6 years gathering together, selling anything we weren't going to keep that would be worth a few quid and chucking anything that wouldn't. It makes you wonder why we bother getting all of this in the first place?
It's an amazing feeling being mobile, knowing that home now is simply wherever we sleep at night and we have nothing to tie us down so we can go wherever we want, whenever we want. In fact, I can hear the Bohemian lifestyle calling and I have no problem answering and giving it a try...
So what did it take to 'mobilise' ourselves? Well it took a hell of a lot of hard work and stress and most of all: planning. It took about a year of clearing debt so we can leave the country owing to no one but our student loans (which I don't care about), it meant focusing ourselves to decide upon a plan of action and a line of work which will enable us. It means being free of furniture, free of a car, free of insurance, of phone contracts, of gym membership, of a rented apartment, of responsibility, of ANYTHING that can tie you down.
It's not until you decide to do something like leave the country that you actually look at those things that do actually tie you down and would need sorting if you were to follow through. And It's not until then that you realise how many shackles you accrue over time, without meaning to but that western civilisation compels you to accumulate, so ridding myself of them is a really liberating feeling. As a result I don't want to ever tie myself down in so many ways ever again!
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| This is me for the foreseeable future! |
For a full list of all the things we needed to do to leave the country and start our travels, check out this post on my wife's blog.
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