Deciding To Leave Everything Behind for a Year.

Deciding To Leave Everything Behind for a Year.

by | Personal, Time for a change

Is it possible to leave everything behind for a whole year? Rent your house, quit the job, sort out the schooling, the bills. The dog.

Is this possible?

To leave everything behind to go and travel the world.

Could I start a travel blog? Take two teenagers, a shed load of hormones, four rucksacks, and a fistful of savings and go around the world?

I’m in my late forties. Am I too old? Will Brian’s back be able to take sleeping on a futon?

These, along with a thousand others are the questions have been plaguing me for the past few months.

We are somewhat addicted to change, Brian and I. We have always lived by the rule that if something wasn’t making us completely happy then we would have to set about changing it, to live life differently.

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The hippy that changed my life.

The hippy that changed my life.

by | Personal, Time for a change

 

If we hadn’t emigrated  I most certainly wouldn’t have homeschooled for the past 8 years. Neither would I have started my own touring theatre company but that’s a different blog.

That’s not to say that had we not dragged ourselves to the other side of the world I wouldn’t have dabbled in the waters of schooling without school. But you know what?.. truthfully…I don’t think I would have dared.

Back then, for a few years before we made the big move, in my early 30s, I was different. I wanted to be liked. Desperate to be liked. I wanted to please. I wanted to be accepted. I wanted (more…)

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