WOW! You are all so inspiring. I have just turned 30 and my fiance is 27 (yeah a bit younger I know) and we have just given up work for a year RTW trip!
He luckily has a job to come back to but I am taking a risk with leaving my job, but hey life is too short and what the hell! The trip is all booked and we leave for 11 months in January. We have rented out our flat and re-homed Pheobe the cat with Grandparents. I think that you can come across negativity and ppl think you are crazy leaving a well paid job. I knew to a certain extent what my next few years were going to entail, and now my life has completely changed direction and the future is unknown. It is exciting but also scary. I think when you are a bit older you worry more about giving things up, but I believe the next 11 months are going to be so amazing we won't look back.
So forget what anyone else says and follow your dreams.
Reply to this Thanks Jo! Good luck with planning your trip! If you're planning a trip in the Asia region don't leave off India. I'm here now and it's still my favourite!
Reply to this Dear Karen, Ross and Ellen,
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Thanks & regards
Raman
(I am based in Delhi) Reply to this Good for you! You are right, life is too short, so enjoy each second of it without asking yourself too many questions. This trip you planned is one in a life experience and I'm really happy for you. I hope you'll share your impressions with us and let us see in pics the places we'll be seeing with you own eyes.
Have a very, very pleasant trip!
Reply to this I have one day left to work and have started to say bye to some of best friends. I leave for my 7 month trip next Monday, it's quite a daunting and exciting feeling but I'm looking forward to getting the goodbyes out of the way as it's going to be an emotional week and really hard to leave my friends.
They'll still be here when I return and I hope to have some amazing experiences along the way that I can share with them afterwards.
Do it!
Reply to this Vicky dear, you can't be serious! I started traveling when I was 32; my first trip was two and a half years, in Europe, the Middle East and Africa; the next was when I was 37: thirteen months in Asia. I traveled between jobs, in the summer in college or graduate school; took vacation without pay; any excuse I could to travel. You're never too old; I'm 60 years old now and still going strong. When you get out there, you will see how important it is to travel, how much it fills your sails. It's the most personal way of waging peace. The world is not a terrible place at all; it is filled with kindness and goodness at almost every turn. Do it asap and do it as much as possible!
Reply to this Vicky, I will be 29 in one month and my husband is 31. We plan to travel the rest of our lives. We love to travel, it is our greatest passion. Don't listen to those people, they live in fear. You need to take risks to expereince things that are different from daily routine. It is worth it, and it will work out. It all depends what your priorities are. You could be the most the secure person in the world a house, a car, a high paying job, and yet still have no passion for life. That to me is riskier then throwing everything to the wind and following your dreams. As you proabably realized from this website, there are a lot of people out there that are on the same page as you. If you want your life to grow stale and predictable then do what everyone else tells you to do. Honestly, they are probably jealous, but afraid to do it themselves. Maybe they need some encouragement to follow their dreams, that they are no doubt supressing. You may decide later you would like a home. There are ways to do both, you just need to think about the whole situation differently. My husband and I have bought a fairly inexpensive home, that we are fixing up, that way we are not so tied up that we can no longer travel. We are still going to greece and Italy to backpack for two months this spring, and we plan to do a lot more traveling down the road. You can always find ways to rent out a house. The career thing can be tricky, it may be a good idea to switch to seasonal work for awhile, so you get time off during the year when you can travel. Although in your case, I'm sure you will find a job when you get back-and maybe this trip will get you thinking about what is most important to you. Good luck, and congratulations on taking the plunge. -Bluewander
Reply to this You are never too old to travel. My husband & I try to go somewhere on the farthest side of the globe each year and use up all our vacation. We are 52 now and started 1990. You will never regret it and our thinking is, go farthest while you're young, then Europe when in your late 60-early 70's, then hit the home front when your 70/80 year old body can't take the long 20+ hour flights anymore. You never know what the future will bring so do it while you can. The nay sayers are usually people that are scared or jealous!!! Keep moving! We find it most enjoyable to read about the countries history going back to the first century if possible. Who invaded who, when. Which dynasties were ruling, etc. Makes the trip more interesting when you really know the history!
Safe Journeys!
Reply to this You are no where near to old to travel some people only get started around there 20's...GO DO IT!! there is nothing like travelling...learning about new places, things, customs, its amazing....you learn more from experience then any thing else....remember just to have fun:P
Reply to this I agree with everything said, I'm 7 weeks into a 7 month trip and I'm travelling alone, I turn 29 in a few weeks but I have met soooooo many cool people. Met loads of retired people backpacking around too. It is such a cool thing which brings people of all ages together. GO FOR IT I SAY!!!
Reply to this I am 30 this year, spent the whole of 2007 travelling around SE Asia.
I got back Dec 2007, got itchy feet again and in Jan 2008 I flew to Sydney, I have just got a dream job, defintely a promotion from before. This shows that you can take a year out and still advance on your career when you get back. If anything my travels made me a more unique candidate for the job. I learn't alot travelling and developed as a person and learn't new skills - both of which was recognised, and both of which I can bring into the workplace.
Travelling also opened up new avenues for me. I now know that I want to be a freelance photographer, so I will work towards this over the next 2 years and then hopefully I will be in a position to work and travel together...
Your never too old to travel, I hope this gives inspriation to those who think they can't do it. Follow your dream, live the dream don't dream your life...or before you know it 5 years will have passed just thinking about it!!
Good Luck
Reply to this I find in Western society especially that people honestly belive that taking time off is bad thing and should feel guilty about ,it so they take short holidays like a week out of the whole year ,because they are brainwashed and conditioned by their company/employer that are obligated to give 100% of their time to their careers ,if it means bringing work home on the weekends and spending less time time for themselves or their families or working extra long hours they feel it's thier duty ,a real sad mentality in my opinion .
Reply to this I cant take your question seriously! .....29 is not too old to do anything. In fact no age is too old to do anything. pxx
Reply to this Dear Vicky:
At the age of 29 you are at the peak of your life. Enjoy your feet on white sand under blue sky and have fun while you are at the peak of your lifetime. Do things that you enjoy, family members often feel the need to tell us what to do when to do it;
That works when we are 5 years old. As an adult, you simply need to enjoy your life
Thanks for sharing your concern with us and hopefully your are under blue sky enjoy life.
Reply to this Do what you want to do. I'm 30 years old and spend 2 months to visit most cities of China. Of couse with my husband. That's a wonder trip! I become a happy women. Travel can make your in a good mood.
Reply to this If age were the case, I would never travel. My wife and I ...with 4 kids I might add are just starting to travel, the world. The goal, as many places as possible. One way or another we will do it. Age is never a factor!!! Think of all the older people throughout history who did such amazing things!!Happy traveling.
Tim
Reply to this No, not at all. In the autum I was on a 3 months journey with my family. My wife is 39 and I 43. It´s great just enjoy it.
Reply to this Don't do it, you're way too old. Get a rocking chair and a cat and enjoy the last few years of your life. Don't spend it in smelly dorms and cheap restaurants with mere children of 18-26 years old. The young people will poke you with sticks and mock you while you sleep, believe me this is terrible.
Get extra cable channels and enjoy.
or maybe just go and do it, either way only you can decide. We are 50 years old and are into our 4th month of world travel. I do have a few bruises from being poked with sticks but they heal just fine.
do it.
Reply to this What do you guys mean too old?
I am 37 years old and one of the best thing I ever do is to travel as much as I can. Right now I am running a photo contest in my website . Anyone is free to share their picture.
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