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Traveling Long-Term Changes Your Life Forever — For Better Or Worse
Three years ago, my wife and I “left” our jobs to travel the world for a year.
It was an amazing journey.
We saw the most impressive sights, ate the best food, had empowering volunteering experiences, but most of all, we met the most incredible people.
Lately, many people have come to us to ask for advice on long-term travel. So I decided I’ll share part of our story here.
When I said “left” our job, I meant we didn’t work for the year. We actually both negotiated a leave of absence.
So when we were “done” with our travels, we came back to Toronto. Back to our well-paid full-time jobs.
The Not-So-Glorious Return Home
It was painful.
We both liked our jobs. We both really enjoy Toronto. But it just wasn’t the same.
Most people didn’t give a damn about our journey. A lot of our friends were at a different point in their life. A lot of them just had kids. They had settled, we didn’t.
One of my brothers was completely avoiding me. To this day, I don’t even know why. Maybe he was jealous? Maybe he couldn’t handle our non-traditional way of life?
