After returning from our perfect trip to Mexico it was safe to say we had developed a passion for travelling and exploring. For the next several years we concentrated our efforts into travelling as much as we could but with normal life interfering way too much. We’d be working 50 hours a week jobs, serving some of the more unpleasant folk in our city at different bars, working through the blood sweat and tears on a weekly basis. But it earned us the money to fulfil our love of travel and we were content. We have always dedicated most of our savings for that next trip and that’s what has kept us going, knowing we always had something to look forward to really helped ease the daily grind.
We were able to visit many different places across Europe, which we’ll discuss later in other blogs, including an epic month interrailing with my bro and his now-wife. We then started saving up for our next trips further afield to places like Thailand and Japan. I love Asian culture and cuisine and have dreamed of visiting Japan since I was a kid, a dream I got to fulfil a couple of years ago. We worked hard enough to spend 3-4 weeks in Thailand and 3 weeks in Japan. I was absolutely blown away by both, arriving in Bangkok and Tokyo are two of the most exciting moments I have ever experienced.
The problem was the more we travelled the more we realised that all we want to do with our lives is to see the world and all its treasures. 28 days holiday in 365 isn’t good enough for me.. Why should I be restricted to just 28 days a year to see this beautiful planet? Why should we conform to working full time plus overtime and retire at 65? (if we’re lucky!) Some say to work hard and save up to travel when you’re retired. Why should we wait? I also worry if we’ll even be able to travel to some destinations in 30+ years due to global warming and any other pandemic that may arise. I worry that places like Ecuador and India will be too hot to visit one day. It’s all a bit scary really.. Time to make the most of it then!
You’ve joined us at the very beginning. I sit here writing this a few years before we actually put our house up for rent, quit our jobs and to travel for as long as possible working along the way. By the time you read this hopefully, we’ll be well on our way and in our mid-30s when we achieve our dream, an age where most would now be married and have children or even make that last-minute career change that I definitely should be making. But we’ll be going out into the big wide world with my soul mate searching for greener grass. We’re setting up this blog not to become rich with money but to become rich with life and experience. We’ll be writing about every single journey we take, providing tips along the way and sharing the things we love to explore – culture, food, beer and street art. We want to take on volunteer work, to learn new skills, meet new people and hopefully, we can make a difference somewhere and maybe save a bit of the world as we do it.
As we prepare for our great escape I plan to share with you the experiences and tales we’ve already had and we hope to inspire you to see the world as well. I hope you will find it interesting enough to follow us on our journeys and if we get to meet you somewhere on the way then even better! The world is our oyster.