For a very long time I've had this idea of going on a travelling adventure with no strict plans and just "going with the flow". I'm not an incessant planner by any means but I'd never done any sort of travelling like that before and certainly not for as long as I was hoping to go. But I'd heard travel stories from people in the past and was always intrigued to do something like that myself. After finishing my PhD I almost immediately started working, and after almost 5 years I was starting to regret not taking that trip I wanted to do. I finally got the courage to ask my bosses for a year off ... full info