God I miss the world, this pandemic is shit. So, when kids finish school nowadays they’re often encouraged to have a gap year which pre covid involved travel, especially the whole backpacking around Europe/Asia (at least that’s where they usually go where I’m from).
Has anyone done the whole cheap-travel-explore-the-world-for-months on-end thing later in life? I’m in my late 40s and never did and I so so so so want to. I just hope I haven’t left it too late, am I too old for that type of travel now? I have been to countries other than my own but they are the 2 week trip thing, see the highlights and go home. It’s not the same as months on end to explore and see where you end up.
Please cheer me up and give me hope with your long term travel later in life stories. Even the crap ones where it didn’t turn out the way you wanted and you went home. I have 7 months of leave saved up and if I still have a job after the end of this bloody pandemic I am going somewhere long haul on a plane and not coming back for ages.
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Starfish5 · 26/11/2020 07:20
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