ADVENTURE FURTHER: Part 4
SPENDING A COUPLE OF weeks away riding bikes is pretty special, and returning to work afterwards hits like a humourless bouncer. If you’re lucky enough to be able to take off on a proper overland adventure, spending one month or more on the road, now that’s a whole different ballgame.
Sell it all, run away. How many of us have quietly run that algorithm in our heads at some point. Be it a particularly mind-numbing day at the office, one of those where the normal passage of time is slowed to the speed of continental drift, or another stack of bills hitting the mat, just as the porch collapses and the family wagon throws a rod. Sell everything, hit the road and don’t look back. That’ll fix everything right? Most of the time, a good weekend blast up into the hills exorcises even the most stressful of life’s demons. But sometimes life calls for a longer soiree, be that to explore another continent, kickstart your retirement or blow a redundancy payout before it gets wasted on things like kitchens and extensions. Here’s our guide to disappearing off on a life-changing voyage.
WHAT TURNS A RIDING HOLIDAY INTO AN EXPEDITION?
A riding trip for three weeks or so is exactly that; a holiday, a trip – fantastic fun, but not long enough for to truly settle in to life on the road or, , life at home.
