Hi, and welcome to our travel diaries. In this video, we will talk about the why we traveled. Why did we one day decided to just pack up a backpack and jump into the unknown? Why did we travel for months or even a year, but we're also going to share experiences from other travelers. So inish would you like to start What was your reason for leaving? My reason was pain I traveled because the life that I knew was not the life that I wanted it, but I really wasn't clear on what it was exactly that I wanted.

So seven months before I started traveling, I was faced with a burnout and I was constantly trying to heal or get better, but I was not feeling that my life is progressing in a way that I wanted it to. So I decided to just give up everything thing by backpack. Brilliant story. By the way, we'll get into the details later and leave. And I bought myself a one way ticket to Cuba. So as you mentioned, personal crisis, this is very common reason for a lot of people to leave, either because they they had a bad breakup.

Maybe they were fired, or they're just completely lost in life. And you mentioned that about yourself, but how do you decide how much time do you need when you go traveling? I booked a one way ticket and then a return ticket six months later, but during the course of traveling, I decided that I wanted to stay longer. It took me four months. And then I wrote a letter home with an email telling them that I don't know when I'm going to return. So I really didn't have a deadline.

Epeans My problem was that I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, what I was good at what was my passion, what career I wanted, I just felt very limited with the life that I had, and I felt that there was no true happiness. In that was my reason for traveling and also adventure just to see something very different. But in my mind, I had a year. So we'll get to that a bit later why a year was too much for me and why half a year was not enough for in age. So, so we just left right there's there was not a lot of planning walk from my side, but I just knew that I needed time for myself. And first it can seem like a cost of time and money, but actually, it's an investment in me.

I wanted to invest everything that I I stand for and all the money that I put apart in myself, because what I realized that if I don't do it, I will never find answers. So my deepest reason was to find answers. And this is also an interesting topic because a lot of the people who travel, they leave with the idea I'm going to find myself. In my case I left because I wanted to lose myself. I was genuinely not happy with the person I had become. And I really didn't know how to rearrange that life that I had.

So traveling for me was creating that time. And that space, just as one you said, kind of an investment just to leave and to be in the unknown and see what happens. And allow yourself to just not know, it's interesting, you said that you want it to get lost, because being lost is actually not the way it sounds. You feel lost in your life every day sometimes. But then when you actually lose yourself in the unknown, you discover a lot about yourself, you put yourself in situations that you wouldn't otherwise because everybody's environment is a bit limiting. There's only so much that you can learn about yourself and about others.

But then if you change the environment, then your perception changes. Your personality adapts and the whole mindset completely shifts. I remember When I left traveling, I was in a state of complete disconnect. I did not know who I was, I didn't know what I wanted to do in life. I mean, I was well educated, I had a really good life back where I came from, and it just threw it out the window and just decided, you know what, this is not what I want. And then during my traveling, I became more calm, I allowed myself to not know, and I kinda little by little empties the bag that I was carrying around with me emotionally wise, or when it comes to certain belief systems that I had.

And in order for me to be able to do that being lost was exactly the trigger that I needed. You know, a lot of people would ask, and actually many people have asked, How do you leave everything behind? Because people have the concern of family or friends of job, and in general security, at least the perceived security that we have Around ourselves, how do you leave? You just do your job. And you don't ask any questions because let me tell you, if you wait for that moment that feels good or secure, you ain't gonna be ever so part of the trail of traveling is like it's like jumping out of an airplane over and over and over again. You just know that it's going to be bloody scary, but you also know that while you are hanging in the air with a parachute, obviously, you will feel secure and that parachute for me symbolizes the whole travel community that comes with a traveling where we also will talk about leader never wait for disappear feelings because the part of traveling is that you have this trill and that is very addictive.

To be honest, I think we could vote for you. I feel like that that is exactly the same when people want to kids when people want to buy a house or two jobs or whatever. I don't think there's a moment when we feel ready for everything. thing, but what, from my experience how I felt, I didn't feel necessarily ready for this. But I felt ready to leave what I have behind me, because that was something that wasn't satisfying. So in order to get out there, that was my motivation.

It wasn't really, there was not so much fear from what if I leave, but it was fear of what am I going to find all the answers that come along the road, but nothing that I learned was not useful. And actually, I faced all my fears, not just leaving the security behind, but everything has little things like fear of the water, because at the end, it all comes down to the same principle that we fear the unknown. And in my case, let's say water, I was afraid of it because I didn't know it. And not only not have the fear, but I also have passion for it, because I realized that it was convenient, unnecessary to fear it. I just didn't know that. So as somebody else magical items in here because I rain, a wonderful brain is wired to protect us.

And the unknown is something that the brain does not like. So your brain will always take you back to what is familiar. And traveling helps you to kind of rewrite your brain because the unknown becomes your new familiar. It's like this drug. And if you talk to any traveler, somebody who has been traveling for an extended period of time will tell you that it's becoming part of who they are. Once you travel, you can never go back.

It's what it is. And part of it has to do with this first desire. This overcoming this fear as funny describes a good then you think when you jump into the unknown, that you're gonna fall, but what we've learned as travelers is that it actually teaches you how to fly. And you mentioned that once you're a traveler, you're always a traveler. I completely agree with this, but not exactly the same. way as we started, because I feel that we all traveled with a purpose.

It wasn't just that our parents gave us money to spend and then go explore yourself. We had a very deep reason why we went we wanted answers and, and it's like the top of the Maslow pyramid self actualization. And once that purpose was fulfilled, which we both did, then traveling becomes something very different. It's always apparent in our lives, but not exactly the same way. I do not need to pack a backpack and leave for a year, because I found myself but I do need to pack a backpack and maybe leave for a month for a very different reason. But it's still part of my life.

And if you're part of finishes like we travel all the time, exactly, but slow down, and we enjoy ourselves differently. Exactly. Anything. That's a good point when you mentioned the slowing down. I think that is one of the things which happening, and we will get into the details of everything. What did we pack?

How did we do it? What did we learned what We're on guilty pleasures, and we've got the whole thing set up for you guys so you could travel with us for a time being during this course of the videos, and hopefully we will inspire you to take that gentleman just as we did.