So your teenage daughter or son wants to do their OE around South East Asia. It’s a ‘right of passage’ after all. So they might finish their job or schooling, arrange Travel Insurance (hopefully), get their jabs (hopefully), load up the backpack and they are off. So what if you’re in your 50’s, the list is way longer than the teenager setting off on their adventure.
If you have read our about us page then you’ll know the background, but we have found out first hand just what has been involved leading up to this point. We have had to keep our plans ‘under cover’ because of work and community commitments so we haven’t been able to share our excitement or our stress levels with very many people. This has been very difficult as many of our friends are a big part of our life and we have always enjoyed sharing what we do and get up to.
This made it all very real
We have been slogging away for months and months getting things into place to be able to become long term nomads. We’ve sold some of our most precious possessions (yes, I did shed a tear when our boat sold) and now the big one has happened – our house! The timing has been the most difficult to juggle so that everything can happen in the right order. Other properties have been sold, car gone and you wouldn’t believe the stuff we have got rid of or sold.
It was a tearful farewell
Our resignations from jobs, business’ and other roles have been lodged and storage units sourced so it’s now just a matter of counting down to the day we take off from our life as we know it and venture out to who knows where. We don’t have a set date for our departure just yet but we’re working towards February 2017 so we do still have some ‘normal life’ to live before things become uncomplicated.