This is a true story of a girl who decided to leave a big-city life in Los Angeles behind for a nomadic journey abroad in search of new purpose, adventure and life experiences. Where she will go, nobody knows. Including herself. Which is pretty scary for this self-professed planner. Most destinations will be decided along on the journey. It’s all part of surrendering to the universe and just letting go!
Four months ago, the career path I was on for the past 10+ years was no more. Three months ago, I serendipitously saw a psychic who encouraged me to figure out my life’s mission. Two months ago, I gave up my car. Last month, I moved out of my LA apartment. A week ago, I embarked on a nomadic journey of a lifetime to find new purpose, adventure and life experiences. In January 2020, I am living in a small Medieval town of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk, England. A town of 35,000 people versus the 4 million in Los Angeles. For comparison, my undergrad college in California had about 40,000 students! Tomorrow, only the wind knows where I’ll be.
When trying to “define” what it is that I am doing, I had to think about why my soul needed something like this in the first place. I kept asking those, you know, existential questions. Why are we here? What is our purpose? Do we exist to do someone else’s biding, accumulate things and then enjoy a few hard-earned years of leisure activities, like bridge, bingo and golf, before we die? There must be more to life than this, right?
I was no longer fulfilled. I was complacent. I was too comfortable. I lost the spark that made me want to impact the world for the better. I wanted to feel alive again. Then, I unpacked that down to the feeling I get when I travel to a new place and all of my senses are all heightened. And I exist only in that moment to fully experience life the way that life should always be experienced. In the present without any distractions. The 2-week vacation allowance per year just wasn’t enough. I needed more.
Call it what you want…
- Adult gap year
- Reverse retirement
- Travel sabbatical
- The I quit real life tour
- Nomadic 2020 (*this one works the best as a hashtag or t-shirt design)
At some point, way before this even was even a blip in becoming reality, I had written down in my journal a wishful thought that I would travel abroad for a year and document my journeys. Along with all the other million of nomads out there. So, in true nomadic fashion, I am chronicling my journeys in, what else, but a travel blog!
I have taken the biggest leap of faith of my entire life and left everything I have ever known, career, apartment, family and friends to live a nomadic lifestyle for a year’s time.
Follow me on this journey! And, I encourage you to dig deep within yourself and take your own leap!
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