by Dustin Kudler | Mar 13, 2015 | Reflections
When do you choose risk over stability? That was the question I had to answer when deciding whether or not I should leave my job to live out of a backpack while traversing across three continents for several months to eventually return to my point of departure (Upstate New York).
To some of the readers the dilemma of going on the trip of a lifetime or stay at home doesn’t seem like much of a dilemma at all. Life is short, so you should go on the trip. To others who value stability in their lives, the choice seems equally as obvious. I have it good now, don’t throw it away.
Because you’re reading our travel blog it’s obvious what choice I made. After several long talks with Katie discussing the logistics of how we could make our trip possible, I had one internal hurdle that got me to the point where I said yes. I asked myself, what would Pop Pop do? (more…)
by Katie | Mar 6, 2015 | Reflections
Before we dive in to the good stuff – what we do, where we go, what we eat – I wanted to give some background on why we’re doing this crazy thing, and highlight some of the emotional evolution that’s been happening.
Long term travel has always been a dream for me, and was cemented each time I took a trip to somewhere new. Packing my belongings in a backapack and setting out for a year-long adventure to explore exotic and far-flung locales was the romantic ideal. It also gave me a place to tuck away new daydreams or moments I’d like to experience, that I could later page through like photo highlight reel: soaking in an onsen in Japan, wandering the souks in Marrakesh, or sailing on the crystal blue waters in Thailand. Each idea tucked into the dream was a snapshot that I wanted to string together in an epic adventure. (more…)
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