Thank you for visiting my site! I hope you enjoyed learning a bit more about me, my interests, my lifestyle, and my travels. I hope you gleaned something from all this that you can apply to your own life or if not, that you just enjoyed the brief escape from the everyday monotony and/or exploring perspectives different from your own. 

Or perhaps you already live similarly and just wanted to check out the site of a fellow wanderer. If that’s the case, hello comrade! Definitely follow me or reach out to say hello and, who knows, maybe we will even meet somewhere down the road.

But to those of you out there who dream of living this way but don’t know how, I want to emphasize that ANYONE can do this. There is nothing unique or remarkable about me that makes me more capable of living this way than you. Traveling and seeing the world is something you either make a priority or you don’t. We all decide every day what matters most to us and how we will spend our time and energy. 

Unfortunately, I think many of us lie to ourselves about what we truly want. Perhaps you like accruing the material possessions all those advertisements tell us we need? Maybe you want the stability of a traditional home and don’t mind all the burdens that come with it: house payments, utility bills, HOA fees, insurance, the list goes on. Perhaps you don’t mind going to the same job, seeing the same scenery, or doing the same thing day in, day out, for years on end, with only the brief reprieves that come with your 2-3 weeks of vacation a year? If this way of life works for you, then you’re probably doing fine — you fit in well to the model of success and stability that our society has prescribed to us and that can be a beautiful thing if that is honestly what YOU want.

However, if you are like me and these things DO bother you, eat at you, or slowly wear you down, know that you need not settle for that life. You decide how you want to live and the things that are important to you and the only person’s fulfillment that truly matters is your own. Because if you aren’t fulfilled, if you aren’t happy, you won’t be able to make others happy either. All I know is that the more material possessions I have, the more distant I feel from the world and the more “stable” my life becomes, the more stagnant I feel in it.

So, for those of you out there like me, I say this: embrace the anxiety, own the fear, let go of tradition, buck what’s normal, and then step out into the unknown. I promise that, eventually, you’ll be ever so grateful you did.