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Our Mature Gap Year Is Getting Closer

It might sound like a great adventure and I hope it will be, but it is not without it’s stresses even at this early stage.

In fact at times I shudder at the downright scariness of the situation we are in and will be in the future.

I know that seems strange but think about it, give up work, take the children out of school, sell 95% of all your belongings, take everything you need for one year in a 20kg bag and set off into the unknown, without hotels or transport sorted out, not to mention the cost of traveling. Believe me the flight tickets will be the cheapest part of this adventure. And when we get back, what then? – No house, no job, no plan! -

I am actually trying to turn off the one year from now thoughts because I want to enjoy the moment. The moment is what we are in this for.  Life is too short and too many people put things off until a later day which they believe will come.

My Father in Law was a great man, and a real entrepreneur, a business man who started with nothing and over his career made and lost many millions of pounds many times. He had a great life and the money was never important to him, doing the deal and traveling the world building contacts and helping people set up businesses was. He always wanted to buy a yacht and told us of his plans on many occasions but it was always in the future.

Now, my Father In law had that Entrepreneurs whirlwind force that seemed to propel him through life at 100 miles an hour, he was hardly ever ill, he seemed immune to flu and colds, he in short seemed indestructible. Yet, he died too early of a cancer that took this strong proud man and in a few short months he was gone, all those plans and dreams of yachting gone in an instant.

All the adventures he planned to have with his five grandchildren stolen from him and of course them. My wife has already had her fair share of health issues and the idea of waiting many years to do something that we may never ever do, just did not seem like a plan we wanted to sign up to.

We are lucky enough to do this and so we are grabbing it with both hands.