590 days to go…probably thought there’d be something between 900 days and now, right? Yeah, me too. But, life happens and things fall by the wayside. After my post at 900 days, I started my new job which ended up being satisfying, yet more exhausting than I expected, so that when I got home at the end of the day I didn’t feel like writing any blog posts. I was supposed to travel to Patagonia in January to go hiking, and I was really looking forward to sharing pictures and blogging about that trip. But, I injured myself, so I had to cancel my trip. And now we are in the middle of this little hiccup that is a worldwide pandemic. Stuck at home, but still working 8 hours a day, so it’s not like I suddenly have tons of time on my hands. I do have a couple extra hours that I’m not commuting to the office, but honestly, this isolation takes a mental toll and I find myself using this extra time to just try to stay sane.
I named this blog No More Office Door because I wanted to get out of the office, work remotely if at all… but this is not what I meant. My current office door looks a lot like my apartment door. The goal was to be able to work remotely and from locations all over the world. At the moment, travel is verboten and though my job has had to allow telework because of the pandemic, it’s telework from our homes, not from wherever we want to be. And as soon as stay-at-home orders are lifted we will be back in the office.
So, here I am. Still more than a year away from launching my plan to quit my job to travel. But at the moment I’m not going anywhere. No one is. And travel may be changed forever. By the time I plan to leave we’ll know more, and hopefully there will be a vaccine and open travel will have resumed.
One thing I have done during this 2+ months of self-isolation is think frequently about my plan after I leave my job. I spent a couple days roughly mapping out what the first four years will look like, taking into account my expected income from investments and my budget to sustain this travel lifestyle. But I’ll save that for another post.
I’d like to set myself a goal to publish more frequently. I seem to think up great post ideas right when I’m going to sleep. And then I get anxious about making the posts good quality, and adding pictures, and I just end up not doing anything. So instead, I’m just going to type and publish. And these may come out looking like stream of consciousness and not being very useful to anyone but me. Too bad. For now, while I’m stuck at home, that’s what I need so that’s what’s gonna happen. Maybe someday I’ll go back and tidy up. Maybe not. I’m keeping my options open.