O.O.O. Thank you for your note, please note its official we are doing it. We will be out of Office until ???

So after much daydreaming, discussing and eventually some (albeit not much) planning, Jonny and I have decided to put aside our current lives and leave everything behind to travel the world. I mean getting older is about trying to have less responsibility right?? 

People have asked us, how and why we decided we will go on this journey. There is not really a simple answer to either of those questions. 

FACT: There is no perfect time to leave your job, family, friends, etc and uproot yourself to travel around the world.....


... So the answer the question of how did we decide this was the right time to drop everything and travel we basically just set a date and said no matter what comes along from job opportunities, family, friends, events we are just driving towards that date. And once we did that they rest of was just working backwards to get everything done. Once we started talking about and planning for the trip one of my very best friends and her boyfriend, Kait and J.J. decided that this was also the right time for them to pursue this once-in-a-lifetime journey so we have joined forces and will be travelling all together for the next 8-10 months!

To answer the question of why the answer is simple - Wanderlust. For as long as I can remember I have had an infatuation with travelling and constantly get bit with that feeling of wanderlust. I am by no means a very well traveled person (...unless you call long distance communting as travel, but I will save that discussion for another time). I have travelled significantly around Canada and parts of the US and spend a decent amount of time in Central Europe that is about the extent of it.  So this blog will not be a “How To” on planning and executing a journey around the world. Instead this blog is mean to be a sharing of our experiences and feelings from 2 perspectives as we fumble our way around the world on a journey of a lifetime

I’d be lying if I said I never had second thoughts or cold feet as we planned for this. Anyone who knows me well knows that the list of things that the list of thing risky, spontaneous, super adventurous things I have done is SIGNIFICANTLY smaller that they list of things that I am afraid of. I had many internal moments, ummm actually full conversations with myself where I said this is crazy! I can’t do this! I’m too scared to leave! I am comfortable here!…….. but never once did I say to myself I don’t WANT to go, or this is a BAD IDEA, so instead I told my Talia Brain to shut the hell up – one step at a time, one foot in front of the other and go after your dream.

Since we are both taking a step out of the corporate world and stuffy offices we sit day after day to follow this dream we have called our blog Out.Of.Office……but in my case Out.Of.Element. will probably be a more appropriate title. 


outofoffice_Talia

And so it begins....

So we decided to drop it all and take off for a year to travel around the world to places we never thought we would have the chance to see – cultures we never thought we would experience – and a dive into the unknown – a feeling like we never thought we would feel.

Meet the Talia and Jonny show... this season.. a year abroad or as we like to call it - outofoffice.

We’ve planned as much as we can – which isn’t much. And now, its just a countdown until we take off.

I have to say, it was a pretty anxious feeling waiting for everyone to find out. But now it’s out there, and it feels great. I don’t know what I’m more excited for…. The probability of my most epic bronze ever or just this feeling of the unknown. Probably a combination of both.

As you can hopefully tell, this is an epic concept.... So epic, in fact, that another couple and great friends of ours decided to join in on the action! (perhaps with slightly less bronzing ambition). Enter JJ Sullivan and Kait "CK" Haynes.

Outside of the excitement, all the other feelings that should come with this adventure aren’t really there yet.

It’s the weirdest feeling ever. Ive been trying to figure out when its all going to hit me..

• Maybe when our apartment is empty – it is now… and it didn’t work.
• Or when we bunk up with friends for a week before we leave…. What-up Heather and Hunter - SLUMBER PARTYYY!!!
• Maybe when were at the airport or find ourselves on the top of Macho Picchu doing the stanky leg.

Who knows..But I think it's those feelings I am the most excited for.

I have been dreaming about what we’re going to see, feel, etc.. over the course of the next year. I start with the standard….

• Sun setting or rising over the either the most epic beach or mountain range you have ever seen
• A feeling of groundedness, centered and everything else people pretend to feel during Goodlife Fitness Yoga classes.

..........Then I loose focus and I find myself say – “how do you know?”

And I remember why (partly) I’m going on this trip.......... and yes, an epic bronze is one of the reasons.

Cheers to doin’ it. Whatever the IT is.

--outofoffice_Jonny

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