The Beginning

As I write these words, I feel at the beginning of a new journey.

A set of thoughts and emotions quell up inside me, part hope and part anxiety.

These aren’t new emotions, several years ago I packed up a home, put all my belongings in to storage and travelled by bike for two years.

I still vividly remember the day I departed from Ushuaia, turning those first pedal stokes, heavy feelings of casting off an old life, the trepidation of what was to come, my dreams about to become a reality.

As those first few miles passed, I knew that life would never be the same again, and I was right.

I surrendered myself to that journey, riding over mountain passes day after day, living nomadically and living in the moment.

The catalyst for that journey was loss, I needed to find out who I was and prove to myself that I was strong and capable.

In many ways it was escaping my reality back home, a gaping void that had been left.

Yet there was a finality about that journey, one day it would be done and life would once again go back normal, I would be amongst friends and family.

Much has changed since then, I’ve been successful in my career, and have been fortunate to find a kind, caring and loving partner to make a home.

To the passing observer we are sorted, living a solid middle class life.

My motivations to pursue a new journey are different this time, it isn’t to escape or to run away.

It is to face my hopes and dreams and tackle them head on, to make my own luck utilising my skills and knowledge to carve out my own future without a dependency on a monthly salary.

Today is that day, it might not be the chest beating picture of someone sticking it to the man.

Yet it is a start of a new journey, a journey which combines my interests in adventure, travel and technology.