The Plan

Posted by Carly Lyddiard on Apr 4th, 2007

OK, this is one of those pages that I haven’t really fleshed out yet – I promise I will get to it soon.

The gist of it is that I am planning a massive trip, one that I expect will take me a year or two, and if I plan it right should take me to see much of the world.

I am planning slow travel. I want to stop and soak in the places I visit, not fly through them and catch the tourist sites so I can say “oh yeah, I’ve been there”. I want to know “there”. I want to�understand the people there, what it means to live there.

Mostly I’m going to play it by�ear, only really�properly planning the first month, then having rough plans for the rest. The biggest problem is going to be money. If I am very lucky I might find a place�that will let me work remotely, or pick up some remote contract work here and there around the place. I�am not rushing into this, so I’m saving for it even now to�be in a better position whtn the time comes.

I want to volunteer in many places along the way. I want to learn, maybe by WOOFing, and certainly by visiting places of religion around the world. Mostly I want to know who I am, know how to be alone, to see how much I change, to reconcile�society’s view of “success” and “happiness” with mine, and to figure out what I want from life.

Anyway, when I get some time I will flesh this page out a bit more and may put in some�Google maps showing where I am intending to go :-)

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