Yesterday.

Because tomorrow might be too late.

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Did some trips.
Rode some bikes.
Fix them for a living.
Can't say anymore.

I'd say the right age is more like five to ten years ago. No matter how old I get, that always seems like the golden age.

If you listen to the media it's always 20yrs ago that was the golden age, the time when everything worked. It's mainly, I suspect, because the reporters have either no perspective (due mainly to their age) or a very short attention span. If a week is a long time in politics, 20yrs must be not long after the dinosaurs vanished. Strangely enough that 20yr period seems to have been a constant - in the 70's it was the 50's that were the golden era, in the 90's it was the 70's etc.

And today is the first day of the rest of your life, so no regrets about the past, just get out and go!

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Inspiring, Informing and Connecting travellers since 1997!
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I thought about expressing an opinion, and then decided simply to share my own experience, in the hope that it might help.

Born as a nomad - family moving every few years, living in Europe and SE Asia.

University in Scotland; member of the University Exploration Society, with lots of weekend camping/exploring/birdwatching/geological/biological/ecological trips as well as some longer trips in the summers (Europe and Asia).

First full time employment in Botswana, with travels in RSA and what is now Zimbabwe; at the end of the contract hitch-hiked through WIKZ, Zambia, Tanzania, to Kenya then flew to Europe - 80% work / 20% travel.

Subsequent employment mainly in various bits of Europe, Canada, USA, Congo, Venezuela, and Colombia, with lots of trips which ranged from business travel through “typical” vacation travel, through what we now call overlanding, on six continents - 85% work / 15% travel.

In the last 11 years I’ve spent 8 years travelling about 40% of the time, most of which has been within my home country, although we’ve travelled for short periods in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa, with about a third of that being overlanding. In the other three years we’ve made three “big trips” - overlanding in South America, Africa, and Australia.

So for me it’s been a lot of travel overall, with a limited amount of overlanding in the period of full time employment. and a significant increase in overlanding in the last decade or so.

True! You can get into an accident tomorrow or get cancer next week. Your partner can get early onset dementia next year and you would like to be by her/his side the next 5 years.

One day were all gonna die. But all the other days were gonna live....so do it, go out and live your life! Roam the world, give a bit more f*** in general but be nice to the people you meet on your way....

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In the end everything will be fine. If its not fine its not the end....

The ideal age?
For whom?
You?
Me?
Someone else?

As far as I'm concerned, when I find the ideal bike, the ideal route, the ideal bank balance, the ideal partner, the COVID situation is ideal and the weather is just...ideal, I'll let you know what my age is!

Too many variables, mate.

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Hear the challenge, learn the lesson, pay the cost.

there is no ideal age, do it when it suits you and only you it your life go live it and stop worrying about what others do and want you to do

you could get cancer next week and die within 3 months or 6 months etc, people always say need to wait for this and that and blah blah, just plan your trip work everything out then go, while I'm simplifying it to show u nothing is that difficult, its ur life do what you want with it when u want to do it, there will always be someone that has a good reason why you shouldn't and time is not going to come and see you to say hey man you have worked hard here have 12 months of if you don't make the time and the decision it will never happen

These words are so true so I have to quote Touring Ted once again.

One of the nicest, friendliest and most helpful persons I met during my 5 year RTW trip, who I rode together with for some weeks in south America, who I had dinner and drinks with, who I camped with on many occations, who I shared a shabby room with right in the middle of nowhere in the Pampas of Chubut province of Argentina, who I shared many a stories with - and who also generously hosted me for a few nights in his home a couple of years later when I passed through his part of the world has now got the terrible disease ALS (Lou Gehrigs disease) It means he soon will loose most of his strength and will need help with all daily needs. And in the end also he will need breathing aid. Average life span after diagnosed is 3-5 years. Horrible that is!

So remember to live while your alive....one day it will be too late.

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In the end everything will be fine. If its not fine its not the end....

So sad to read that! Hope he can make the best out of his time here!

Yes, there are many people who are pass away early. But just focus on them, will be missleading...

The life expectancy in switzerland is
81,4 years for man
85,4 years for women

Yeah you can always life the "yolo" lifestyle. Yolo can be discussed very differently too:

found @ https://www.quora.com/Is-YOLO-a-good-motto-for-my-life

Surfy

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