There was one thing that Dave mentioned in one in every of his weblog posts at some point that actually acquired my consideration: “Some individuals select to spend money on their homes. I select to spend money on my passport” wrote Dave, the day he bought every thing to pursue new adventures in one other a part of the world. “I turned a homeless individual once more yesterday. It felt good ” he wrote.
Dave Dean is the author and adventurer behind What’s Dave Doing and he thinks life shouldn’t be about working 80 hours per week, hoping the weekend will come sooner. Right here’s a brief inteview we did with Dave by way of e-mail; learn all about the place he’s from and the way he determined to offer it a attempt to “reside the journey dream”.
eDreams: Who’s Dave Dean? The place are you from, what do you do?
Dave: “I grew up in a small city in New Zealand – just about so far as you will get from the remainder of the world. That appeared pretty much as good a cause as any to move out and see what different nations needed to supply, so after finding out Historical past and Political Science at college that’s what I did. For some cause it’s now virtually 15 years later and I haven’t fairly discovered cease travelling but. Up till now I’ve combined intervals of journey all over the world with intervals of working in a technology-related subject wherever ‘residence’ is, however as of a few weeks in the past I’m making an attempt to make a residing from the street full time.”
When did you realise you have been a traveller and couldn’t settle with a 9 to five job?
“Good query! It’s one thing that I’ve fought with for years – considering that it actually was about time I settled down however by no means managing to do it for greater than a yr or two earlier than hitting the street once more. I assume I lastly realised how futile that was about 3 or 4 years in the past, and began severely fascinated by making an attempt a unique method perhaps 18 months in the past.”
I bought every thing I owned besides what fitted in my backpack and moved to the opposite facet of the world
How did you do it? How did you escape the routine? Did you save up or plunged into the unknown?
“I’ve escaped the routine so many occasions now that it virtually appears … properly, routine! Principally what I did the primary time was work half time and full time jobs whereas I used to be at college, promote every thing I owned besides what fitted in my backpack and moved to the opposite facet of the world. I needed to get a job fairly rapidly – I used to be right down to my final 100 {dollars} by the point I acquired my first paycheck! – however I then spent each vacation and lengthy weekend travelling round Europe, the US and Africa. Ever since then I’ve performed one thing related each two or three years – work, promote every thing and hit the street. It’s very achievable in case your focus is on solely shopping for the stuff you actually want and never simply random ‘stuff’ that clutters up your life and makes it more durable to avoid wasting and more durable to depart.”
What the very best half about travelling and residing overseas? How is Chiang Mai this time of yr?
“For me the very best elements of journey or residing overseas are the liberty and the individuals you meet. Spending day-after-day with like-minded people who find themselves additionally out exploring the world is an unbelievable feeling, and never figuring out prematurely what any day will appear like fills me with pleasure. Having the liberty to decide on a life-style like that is the very best feeling on the earth.”
“Chiang Mai is just about good this time of yr! The moist season has completed so it’s scorching and sunny day-after-day, but it surely cools down sufficient at night time that you could nonetheless get an excellent night time’s sleep. It’s not notably humid both, so it’s a beautiful time of yr to be right here. Peak vacationer season is beginning so there are extra travellers are turning up on the town, but it surely’s nonetheless a reasonably relaxed place to be with nice meals and laid-back individuals.”
The place else did you journey to earlier than? The place are you planning to go subsequent?
“I’ve travelled round New Zealand and Australia, a lot of the UK and Western Europe, the US, Canada, South East Asia and japanese and southern Africa. I’ll be based mostly right here in Thailand for one more few months earlier than heading again to Europe, Africa and onwards. Central and South America are on the listing for someday subsequent yr as properly. Loads of plans! :)”
Do you assume that what Dave is doing is fairly superior?
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