Gathering Information

Gathering Information About Travel & Entrepreneurship

I have been gathering information about traveling and entrepreneurship on the road for almost 6 months now. I have talked to a lot of fulltime travelers online! They are really nice and very eager to help me with information or to tell me where to get it. Thanks to them I now own a favorites list in explorer with I don’t know how many links to check sometime soon and lots of documents to read sometime soon. The important ones I already read and applied for the things needed.

New Words

Besides getting to know a lot of travelers I also learned a lot of new words like wwoofing, digital nomads, wanderlust, etc.

Digital Nomad

It’s cool to know there are more people out there doing what I am about to do. It is going to be an adventure and it will ask a lot of improvising from me. But it’s worth it, seeing lot of places and meeting new people. A dream comes true. I have been living towards this moment for months and every month getting a step closer by arranging something.

It’s Nearing

It’s funny I had months preparing and getting used to the idea, but most people although I told them months ago are now getting aroused. By asking questions I already been asking the other travelers for months: 

• ‘Did you arrange this and that?'

• 'How are you going to do that?'

• 'Did you buy a ticket?'

• 'Are you realy going?'

• 'Do you have enough money?’ 

• 'They diagnosed you as having a psychosis NAO* in the past, are you allowed to travel? '

• 'What are you going to do with your big beautiful house?' (I am not living in that house anymore for months)

• 'You can't go alone'

• 'You are to old to go backpacking'

• 'You are to old to stay in hostels'

• 'Do you have visas'

• 'It isn't safe to travel alone as a female'

• 'You don't have friends there'

• 'You won't get work there'

• 'Only caucasian people do this'

• 'You should go to Curaçao where you are from'

• etc....

Relax… I have been preparing for months and if I am not prepared for something I will have to deal with it on the road… Years of practice in life changes :-). I did it and did it again, and again and again and will travel after COVID again.

*There are more diseases with the same symptoms and in my case the symptoms disappear with rest. Because I was not left alone or taken to the emergency room, there was already a bias in working. My advice is to go to all doctor's appointments alone and always connect with mental health professionals through your general practitioner or hospital emergency department.

Gathering Information Is Big Data

As I told earlier I asked around among travelers about how they sustain their travel life. By talking to them I got to know new travel terms and looked them up. With looking them up I gathered lots of websites and documents, Big Data about being a traveling entrepreneur. This data is new and diverse. I combined them to information I could use to travel the Pacific for 5,5 months and also for other travels later on.