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What you have to remember is that it will never be "the right time" to do anything. Your house will never be worth top dollar, you will never have your bike just right, you will never have saved enough money. etc etc etc
You just get to a point where you say F**K it, cut your losses and make a commitment.
For me on this trip it was booking and paying for all the ferries, carnet and insurance. Once you spend £1000 in under an hour on non refundable things, it's very hard to procrastinate any further.
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I have been planning my big trip since I got back from 3 months around Europe in 2007,when I ditched the job & used my savings. Since then I have been clearing my debts & paying my bike off & slowly getting her kitted out but it will still be another few years before I can go again.
I have set myself a leaving date of start of May 2014 for a 6 month trip,it seems a very long way off but need that much time to save enough cash,I try to keep myself sane by visiting horizons regularly & making sure I have a road trip every year.
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how do you know when its time......
it took Simon and i around 2 years to just plan and save and organise our lives, make adaptations to the bikes etc etc.
get a P.O.A sorted, rent out the house, organise paperwork for the bikes, house, visas for the first part of the trip and so on.
we had however saved for a lot longer!
we planned for around 2 years away - we are now over 7 years on the road.
since leaving we have sold everything - asking our P.O.A to sell everything that we had orginially planned to return to.
we are glad that we spent the time planning and saving. there was no way we could jsut up and go as we were not students living at our parents homes - we had a life, a business, years of acquiring things etc.
...however, we set a date to leave and were still not ready but left anyway. we had however had the most major things planned and a P.O.A set up who knew all of the most important things and what to do on our behalf if everything went wrong.
-the most important thing - set a date and stick to it.
you are never ready to leave - there is always something else to do - in the end you jsut have to take that massive jump and go.
there is never a good time, you always need more time, more money. more planning etc.etc.
set a date - set a plan - set your mind and....enjoy!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by *Touring Ted*
Once you spend £1000 in under an hour on non refundable things, it's very hard to procrastinate any further.
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Very true!!
Also one of those moments (especially if you've never done a trip on that scale before) when you think: "blimey, we're actually doing this: it wasn't just talk!!"
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