⤗Sylvi's Initial Thoughts and Feelings

We are counting down the last couple of days before we leave and I am having a hard time describing how I feel about it. Everyone has been asking me “are you excited?!” and I’ll smile and say “of course” but really I’m pretty much scared shitless. Obviously I am overwhelmed with excitement, excited to see what our road will bring, but at the same time a certain type of worry lingers over me. Laci keeps on saying “don’t worry babe, together, we can do anything” and I can’t help but believe him (especially with that smile). So I have no other choice then to get my shit together, forget the fear, and move forward.

My stuff all packed up from the flat that I lived in for over 2 years

For those of you who don’t know, Laci and I met three months ago at a rave party, fell in love, decided to quit our office jobs, and head to southern Spain in Laci’s 25 year old Mercedes van. You may say reckless, but we say spontaneous. It didn’t take long for us to convince each other that this was the most spectacular fucking idea ever! I have been working at Diageo as a Credit Controller for the past two and half years and to say the least, I burned the hell out. Sitting in front of a computer for eight hours five days a week is not what I would call ideal, in fact, it has become for me what I would imagine hell to be like. However, I did learn a whole lot and met a bunch of really fantastic people who I have ended up calling family (shout out to the NAM Credit Control team, I love you guys). As you can imagine, working in finance for this long has completely blocked off my creative channel and this is super depressing. Even while I am writing this I feel like I have to strain myself in a certain sense to get what I am really feeling out. One of my main goals of this trip to get that creativity within me bubbling again. I want ideas and thoughts to freely flow through me. I’m done with the numbers and dollar signs, done with the excel spreadsheets and equations, meaningless meetings about meaningless bullshit, done with stressing over making a few people even more rich then they already are. DONE. I am honestly hoping that this trip will allow me the time and the freedom to figure out what the hell I really want to do with my life.

Alright well enough of that rant. So you may be wondering, whatcha guys gonna be doin in Spain? Well, for the first month after we leave we will be just traveling from Budapest, Hungary to Granada near the Southern most point of Spain. Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, France, Andorra, Spain. Along the way we plan on stopping to do some rock climbing, go for long hikes, cook some awesome food, read for hours, and pretty much just let life happen, the way it should. What better environment to get my creative wheels grindin’ huh? Once we make it to Granada we will be working on Gitte’s, a Dutch woman’s, permaculture farm which is situated between 5 natural parks and nestled between the Sierra Nevada. Not sure exactly what our jobs will be but we are pretty much up for anything! It is an incredibly great opportunity to soak up a great deal of knowledge about this unique farming technique.

As of right now, this is the situation. We are nearing departure, so of course we are scrambling to make sure everything is ready. We still have a whole lot to get done with the van, a bunch of petty paperwork, packing, and of course, the teary eyed goodbyes to all our friends. Which reminds me, if you know us, love us, come out to say goodbye this Saturday (September 29^th)! We don’t know where or when yet (obviously J) but write us/call us and we will let you know! But for now, ADIOS MUCHACHOS.

Signing out- Sylvi