Our story?
This story happened on: 25/10/2012
Hello all
Where to begin huh? our story is probably much the same as many no doubt but to us it is a "work in progress" plan without no real planning so to speak. Sat here now I don't really know what to write apart from I have an idea to get in our motor with the van on the back, my other half and the dog and just get gone.
Having worked hard and played hard and seen a fair bit go on around me i've got to a position where I can either carry on working at a job i'm sick to death of, continue to feel the resentment of having to jump forever higher to pay ever increasing charges and deal with red tape, laws and silly regulations...OR I can walk away from a lot of them and hopefully lift a lot of stress from my/our lives. We're choosing to walk, well more drive away and see what happens!
Maybe it will all fall flat and be a mistake but from where we're sat now we think it's a gamble that needs to be taken and we're now looking at sooner rather than later.
I have my own small business, house, cars and various "toys"...boy have I had some toys but now I want to rid myself of all of that and simplify things as much as possible. So what's the plan??
Renting the house/rooms out. All sorted apart from our room which we will rent nearer the "off" date...flexible but looking around March.
De-cluttering and selling off everything that we don't need....PLENTY!
Getting paperwork, accounts and tieing up all loose ends/outstanding business and any other rubbish that gets thrown up along the way. Ensuring adequate insurance covers are in place, medical, vehicle and anything else that crops up. Plenty of other things but they'll be done by our offski date..........GO!
We've got a rough idea where we're head but no plans set in stone. We want to go to anywhere that looks interesting be it a city, village, festival or anything that we want to go take a look at along the way.
I've nearly always fallen on my feet and I've been lucky all my life. We've had it with London and the "dirty" areas around us and having been born in Croydon which was the scene of much of the riots last year you can probably understand why I/we want to get away from this place.
I've always been around caravanning and I can "rough it" easily. I can take the rough with the smooth and so can Aggy so we're going to crack on with our idea and just do it.
Having experienced a few situations that should've finished me off i'd be a mug not to make the most of my life so with that in mind we're going to grab this time in our lives and get out there and live!!
Phil, Aggy and Dougal the dog.
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