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What Traveling And Living Out Of A Backpack Has Taught Me About Life
Is less more?
I left the US in August of 2018. The pessimistic side thought I would get sick of traveling or run out of money and return home. The optimistic side of me said, what the hell? Let’s do it anyway.
What do I have to lose?
At this point, I had my most valuable possessions and still had to sell my car (which I did a few weeks later). I did not plan for the pessimistic part; I always plan for life to work out as it should.
My new life was on the road, exploring and moving around as much or as little as I wanted. Dependent on the country I was in and the visa situation.
Not a decision I made lightly; I did not just decide on a whim, let me sell all of my possessions, or give them away and roam around the world without a plan. That has never been my style.
I knew that taking a year off from nursing would not hurt my chances of getting another ICU job if my plan failed. I even had work online in my field, so I was technically still working as a nurse.
Just in a different way, remote.
