Today, I have a great guest post to share from Patrick Schulte from Bumfuzzle. Patrick quit his job around 20 years ago and has been traveling full-time ever since. He and his wife have circumnavigated the world by boat, and have also driven from Alaska to Argentina as well as Europe in a 1958 VW van. Here is how they made it happen. Enjoy!
Life was much simpler when I was content with living the American Dream.
I walked to work from my downtown Chicago condo, traded commodities for a few hours, came home, walked up the street to pick my wife up from her job, walked to a restaurant, walked home, watched tv, went to bed. On the weekends we might take in a Blackhawks game.
That was life.
Relaxing, easy, and comfortable.
We had plenty of money, a nice home, a convertible, didn’t want for anything, and we were still in our twenties.
We should have considered ourselves lucky, had a baby, and moved to the suburbs. That would have been the appropriate next step. Throw in a white picket fence and we would have completed the package.
Instead, within just a few months, we were floating at anchor on a 35’ catamaran in the Bahamas.
It was the kind of dramatic left turn that makes the car’s passenger door fly open in the movies. [Read more…]