Quit work and travel?
Ok, this is a question for those of you who spend your life traveling and don't work for a living... How do you do it??
I often find myself daydreaming about coming into enough money that I don't have to work anymore, then riding slowly around the world on a 250cc bike, staying in a different place every night, no commitments, no attachments.
... But then I pull myself back to reality. What would I do for money? My savings would run out sooner or later. I've worked hard on my career, I would be throwing that away. What about my pension for when I'm older? I don't make vast sums of money, but I make a comfortable living and am used to being able to afford to live reasonably comfortably. How would I cope with thinking "no, you ate restaurant food yesterday, you'll go over budget if you eat at a restaurant again today."
Then again, there are plenty of people living that life, so it must be possible. My question is how do you do it? A rude question I know, but are you privately wealthy? If not, do you worry about what will happen when the money runs out? Maybe you have the kinds of skills where you know you'll just be able to walk straight back into a job when you need to?
I'm just interested really. Maybe it just comes down to having the balls to put all the middle aged worries about savings, pensions and mortgages to one side and just doing it. Maybe I'll never be adventurous enough to actually do that, but I'm still interested in how people made the transition from a normal 9-5 life to a life traveling.
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