LUKE NAUGHTON
Adventurer & Travel Writer
I just quit my job to travel with my family for a year...
January 7th, 2019
I’m feeling pretty uncomfortable about now.
It doesn’t seem right to say that, being we are doing something that would leave most people excited. How do you feel about not working for a year, and instead spending that time travelling around the world to exotic locations? In a week our family — my wife Katie, and sons 12-year old Henry and 10-year old Oscar — will be heading off on a 12-month journey. After a couple of short stops, we’ll be moving to Buenos Aires, Argentina for two months where we’ll learn some Spanish and hopefully a bit of the tango. We then head to the Galapagos islands in Ecuador to teach the kids about biology. Another four weeks will be spent hiking around Peru, including heading up the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. We follow that up by road tripping across the U.S. for four months, and close the year out by working on our snorkelling in the remote Ningaloo reef off Western Australia, during a 4-month road trip up the coast.
Sounds amazing, right?
It is. It will be. It still makes me uncomfortable.
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