Decision time

Ever since I was young I had often dreamt about being a nomad, living life without a clear direction but with a single desire  to travel the world. The idea of living on and with  as little as possible seemed like an ideal life to me,  as seeing people living out their lives around me working so hard to payback debts for items they really didn't need seemed obsurd to me.

As I grew older and received my very first pay slip, I managed to save some money but somehow always seemed to blow it on cars or alcohol or non necessities and materialistic items which were great to own and use at the time but after a period of time this lifestyle style became the norm. A desire to own bigger and better things, the latest gadget, the best of everything.

This life style was never what I intended but the social ideals of the society in which I lived encouraged such behavior. Work hard and spend most of it on an expensive living style with little left over and what little may be left would be used to buy those must have items or,  so I thought.

I had become by the age of 27 quite set in my routine of life that the idea of  living the life of a nomad or at least traveling the world I had once envisioned at a young age seemed almost out of reach, until I met Cass.

Cass and I after about a month of seeing each other decided that it was too early to say if we would work out but we should both start saving money so that if sometime in the future we had enough saved we could then make  the tough decisions of leaving our jobs, selling all our stuff and saying goodbye to those close to us.

Fast forward to the 23rd of September 2013 and this is exactly what we have done. I have left my job as an ICT Infrastructure Manager of 8 and a half years, sold off all our stuff and hosted a party to say goodbye to family and friends.

Buying tickets and making plans to travel is one thing but when it comes to leaving your job and saying goodbye to loved ones it all become a reality, real fast.

So this is where our new life begins, I own nothing but the essentials I carry in a 70 litre Deuter backpack and a savings fund which will hopefully see me though a few months of travel before I need to start finding work. Wish me luck  and I hope you enjoy the future posts of what I discovered in this world we all share.