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This is so awesome to read about, but I just can't imagine dropping everything for 150 days...

brc 11y ago
Then that is why you need to go! I haven't done a 150 day hike, but I have done 100 - 150 day travel before. Things like that are a great way of creating chapters in your life. Everything in the old chapter closes before you go. You stop working, get rid of 'stuff', move out of your living space and simplify down to essentials. When you're done, a new chapter starts. In the new chapter, you'll do things differently because you get a new chance to start, and because a long break generally gives your brain a chance to bubble up what it think the long term priorities are. Call it a life reboot with a disk reformat and OS update. Sometimes you need to take the server offline for a while to bring it up to spec.
davnicwil 11y ago
> I just can't imagine dropping everything for 150 days Is this because the 'everything' you're doing instead right now is so awesome that dropping it to do a 150 day hike, no matter how great that would be, is inconceivable? Or is it because the practicalities of dropping the 'everything' for 150 days aren't reasonable? If the former, good for you, that's a nice problem to have! If the latter, really try to separate what's a hard, impassable limitation from what's just a deeply-ingrained habit of your current lifestyle, or a fear about how deviating from your current lifestyle vector might negatively impact your future. Using your time to do what your really want to do very rarely closes doors, on the contrary it's far more likely to open an awful lot of them (and windows, too!) in ways you can't imagine until you do it. Knowing nothing of your situation, I apologise if you do have actual, hard, limitations right now (dependant family members, no money to live off while unemployed, etc). But if you don't, you're in an incredibly privileged position that won't last forever. Take advantage! Don't just read about awesome stuff, make a plan then go and do it!

brc 11y ago

Then that is why you need to go! I haven't done a 150 day hike, but I have done 100 - 150 day travel before. Things like that are a great way of creating chapters in your life. Everything in the old chapter closes before you go. You stop working, get rid of 'stuff', move out of your living space and simplify down to essentials. When you're done, a new chapter starts. In the new chapter, you'll do things differently because you get a new chance to start, and because a long break generally gives your brain a chance to bubble up what it think the long term priorities are. Call it a life reboot with a disk reformat and OS update. Sometimes you need to take the server offline for a while to bring it up to spec.

davnicwil 11y ago

> I just can't imagine dropping everything for 150 days Is this because the 'everything' you're doing instead right now is so awesome that dropping it to do a 150 day hike, no matter how great that would be, is inconceivable? Or is it because the practicalities of dropping the 'everything' for 150 days aren't reasonable? If the former, good for you, that's a nice problem to have! If the latter, really try to separate what's a hard, impassable limitation from what's just a deeply-ingrained habit of your current lifestyle, or a fear about how deviating from your current lifestyle vector might negatively impact your future. Using your time to do what your really want to do very rarely closes doors, on the contrary it's far more likely to open an awful lot of them (and windows, too!) in ways you can't imagine until you do it. Knowing nothing of your situation, I apologise if you do have actual, hard, limitations right now (dependant family members, no money to live off while unemployed, etc). But if you don't, you're in an incredibly privileged position that won't last forever. Take advantage! Don't just read about awesome stuff, make a plan then go and do it!