Fri Sep 13 07:31:19 EDT 2024
I’ve been attempting to balance work and adventure cycling for over two years now and have concluded that my job is just not conducive to the interruptions. It makes me really sad to write that. If I were single and only had myself to worry about financially and relationship wise I could totally do it without a problem at all because I would have unlimited funds to spend on the best hotels and food along the way. I cannot believe what life would be like on my salary without any financial obligations. I have lived a life connected to many other people who need my support in a lot of ways and a DNB life just doesn’t work.
What does work is working remotely from home and around town at different places and planning the occasional work-free adventure with a beginning and an end. This is how most humans do this sort of thing anyway. There are other advantages to this approach:
Monday, June 3, 2024, 12:52:50AM EDT
A lot has happened since reading the earlier entry. I’m now very seriously considering crossing the country doing the TaT trail in 2025. Here’s what I’ve realized since that last entry:
Tuesday, January 16, 2024, 6:04:55PM EST
Recently, I felt the pull of DNB living again and even wrote a zettel that I deleted after I got through writing most of it because it helped me realize just how much I do not want to live a DNB life. What I really want is to not work and be able to bike wherever I want, preferably away from traffic, so just the B part of DNB.
Currently, I can do bike away from everyone for three days at a time right now, and for a full week in December (when I’m forced to not work because of being a contractor). And as soon as our finances are in order, I can take months or even a year off at a time. If I maintain my health into retirement age I can just bike wherever the I want for the rest of my days as soon as I turn 62.