Are you over 30 and wishing you could put life on hold to take a year out? Are you burnt-out, stuck on the wheel and wondering what life is all about? In this travel series we explore what motivates our writers to take a mid-life gap year and how they survive, ditching everything they know for the biggest challenge they’ve ever faced.
Circumnavigating the World – A Family Gap Year
For one family, taking a family gap was the adventure of a lifetime. with no regrets about fulfilling their dream to travel around the world.
Are You Working to Live or Living to Work? What If You Can Have Both?
Find out how one person changed their life by quiting their perfect job to work in the travel industry, for an adult gap year that has become a career.
How Our Adult Gap Year Turned into a Blog!
Life was calling after finishing university, but we wanted something different, so we took an adult gap year and ended up starting a blog!
How We Took a Year Off Work to Travel (Using Points!)
Pushing the “pause” button on real life to adventure around the world full-time is something many people would only dream of. And I was one of them, until I asked myself, “why only dream it?”
Why not actually DO it?
Becoming a Digital Nomad
It was time for a change. Deciding to take a grown up gap year and head overseas was the culmination of a few things. Although I’d done a reasonable amount of traveling, I’d never lived overseas, and now seemed like the perfect time to hit the road and try out the digital nomad lifestyle.
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