I`m not in the same situation, but too i cant really tell why i want to go. To go soon.

I recently try to write down my feelings into an article, hope that the readers can follow my thoughts. There is too an Translate-Button on the right side.

Wieso zieht es euch in der Ferne?

Like i wrote before i`m 40 now, had done some travels by car - but the dream of an extended trip always gets bigger.

I love my girlfriend, have a good circle of friends, love too my job, my career could have develope much worse.

While my friends are saving money for buying their own house or flat or are renting their luxurary flat, are married and trying to start a famillie with kids -I am just dreaming about travelling extended.

I dont even know if I will like to travelling extended - look like i have to try it.

To starting now has some benefits against to start with 30. I was able to buildup a fun-car beyond reason (powerful but with bad fuel usage and it was expensiv) and i should be able to travel to 1to2 years - without to focus be too much about saving money during the trip.

Disadvantages are for shure, that i dont know what the impact will be to my career, but i should be able to find work again in my profession. And for shure, i dont know what experience i have missed, because i didnt start with the age of 25 and with less bucks.

It may be easier after the trip, when you can entry the working level with no money - and on a higher career level -- as starting with paying an credit and to enter again on less well payed level.

But who know where such a trip ends, maybe you will teach yoga in a hat in india, or you will earning money as a fighter in thailand...

If a dream is strong, it will be still there in some years. But you never know what happens - maybe your girlfriend get pregnant and you had no time for travelling - anymore..

Some questions we only can answer by yourself. And sometimes we have to try it out - without to have an answer.

Maybe one point is important, I read about in many blogs of travellers: if you try to run away from yourself, from something in your life - you are mostly not fast enough.

Surfy

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