Open Road, Open Life: Andrew Evans at TEDxDanubia 2011

[@phongphong4640]

Wow, this talk is so relevant in 2022!!

[@AnoopSavio]

Hes one of the best travel blogger and is explaining his experience to a bunch of serious grouo. I feel like Andrew landed up in the wrong platform then. They would have been seriously appreciating his journal....

[@joaofilipecosta]

Inspiring! We just need to take that "first step" and then let go with the flow.

[@readmore8740]

The thing about the "Chicken Buses" in Guatemala is that sometimes the driver has a flat screen TV installed above the rearview mirror. Going down windy and narrow roads is unnerving. Also, if you went on Google maps and put a certain point A to point B locations, I gathered they do it based on US highway system or a bird's flight. What Google Maps said is a 15-minute ride typically takes about one hour. Since this guy was moving South, I doubt he visited Lake Atitlan.

[@joshuaoha]

Forty days is really impressive.

[@nanooha85]

beautiful! building trust through travel....

[@angrykillerpigeons]

he did say "ive always wanted to ... " and if there's anything you've always wanted to do and one day think I shall do so, your gonna prepare.. right?

[@lindacantave2541]

then, that is the problem. You are more concerned about him than you need to. Instead of shooting the messenger, please take his valuable message. don't worry about having money to travel, rather find out ways that would allow you to enjoy the path to your destination; regardless of the multitude of unknowns.

[@kenzee5525]

so where did he get the money for all this travel....?? buses ? Accommodation? Food.? How if you are living on benefits can you drop everything and afford to do this,, only if your privelaged or had a lot of money to begin with..? he had this alot more planned and organised and financed than he lets on...

[@readmore8740]

This guy, since he's with Nat Geo, they probably funded a lot of the trip so he's always comfy. It was not the same for me, though. I got to Mexico with some savings from 401K at a firm I worked for. I spent a lot of time volunteering and first even paid to volunteer, so about a year later I was strapped for cash. Work is not easy to come by, also the pay is so nil you barely afford to live. As my funds were getting low, I moved from a tiny sleepy village to a bigger city, got a job at a bookstore and advertised my translation talents, my organizational skills, and started freelancing. That was in 2011 and visited 11 states in Mexico, lived in Guatemala for a couple years, visited Belize for a couple months two summers ago...And did it all with a large dog as well. If a fortune teller said this to me while I lived in US, working as a property manager, I would have declared them insane and left without a payment. In the meantime, I published two dual- language, educational books, a dog who accompanied me through it all and the protagonist of my book series... It wasn't easy letting go of the Vanilla world I lived in, but eventually you barely remember the comforts you had; like the 2k futon bed with a 200USD pillow... At this point, it would be difficult for me to regress. I probably earn as much as an individual on welfare, but live independently and do not mooch from the gov't, if I was in Tijuana, I would probably do it, but am not. One thing to note- when I lived in USA, I took seven different types of meds for my sinusitis problems, seasonal depression, asthma inhalers... I only have a few vitamins now. Looking back at what the docs prescribed me, every year I got something else to incorporate. I did not like that at all.

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