Please be a little specific in your plan, not just “travel”. Where do you want to travel ?
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Visit Japan, South Korea, and certain EU countries I’ve never been to yet. Also probably spend 2 weeks back in my home country to visit immediate family and some friends.
Sleep, play with my cats, hang out with my wife, organize all my shit, prune my emails and pictures, finish my homelab and the other tech projects I have going on, go to Disney a bunch.
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Go back to Japan.
Bike trip on the Panericana from Punta Arenas to whatever is the northern most city in Alaska. Or if I have less time but cash to burn, do it in an ultra-light (A bit like Blyth Cape-town Cape North expedition in the 90’s http://www.trike-expeditions.com/CapeToCape/capetocape.html )
21,000 km, that’s a trip ! Very cool ! I didn’t know this trail ! Thanks
I’d hike the Appalachian Trail.
I’d do the Sentiero Italia (Grand Italian Trail)
Wow that must be so cool to do ! Both projects are really nice !
My question to anyone able to answer this: how can you afford to take a sabbatical period??? I can’t even afford to take a weeks vacation. It would wreck me financially not receiving pay for a whole week. Let alone a year??? What’s going on in this thread?
Read mrmoneymustache.com.
There are some platforms like World Packers where you receive free food and a bed for helping out in places. But I guess that still doesn’t cover travel, insurance, debt, and any other long term payments you might have to make
I’ve been saving 30-40% of my salary each month for years, it helps not going outside because you don’t like people and watching movies and playing video games. And eating ramen
step 1 : have a career
step 2 : don’t spend that much money, building up savings
step 3 : time is money, therefore, money is time.
step 4 : be very, very frugal during your time with no work. I ate a lot of protein powder, eggs and pasta
What is a career in your definition?
In this context, it’s an employment specialization that allows you to earn a greater than average income. I was amazed that as a software tester I used to get paid more than a nurse, an arguably more stressful and more important employment path.
I’m on the left. It’s a hard thing that happens in life that I am pointing out, not agreeing with.
Our dream (my SO and me) is to ride our motorcycles to Japan (from Central Europe). At this time the northern route is politically difficult. The southern route has always been difficult but would be the better option at this time, I think. We even discussed ideas of plans. She could take a half year off, for me it would be more difficult. But the funds would be the biggest issue. So plan B is to rent motorcycles for a week or two, next time we’re in Japan.
I hope you’ll be able to do it someday. It’s a really nice project
depends. If i somehow had money id spend it in a walkable beachside town. If i had the same finances as now id sit at home and relax cuz thats free lol.
Do a total renovation of my flat
Hey, I actually did this! It was the best time of my life.
My aim was to migrate to south america, specialize in my career and get in/stay in shape.
I spent my days going to the gym, learning spanish, doing impromptu streams on twitch (I found a little community in my preperations to quit my job) , and I did travel to the country I wanted to migrate to and to NY to see a band that rarely plays live, visit my family in a different country and to visit my bud that lived in scandinavia.
I spent a month with my family preparing a portfolio.
I saved money during my career, about $16k over several years,and figured, if time is money, money is time.
I’m happy to answer any questions.
What country was it? Are you still there?
Uruguay, still there.
Did you have a job there or a clue ? Or you went to search for it ?
No job, no clue. At the start the perspective of some others and me were that it felt like I just fell out of the sky and tried to integrate into society.
I figured I’d either do immersion learning for spanish, or succeed and set up my life here.
The job came fairly easily, one of the companies from my first wave of applications accepted me.
Book a private jet to go to California with my family. I’ve always really liked the idea of California and I also have a really good friend that lives there! 😃
Quality time with family then
I’d probably start designing and building a rolling ball clock/ sculpture, then hit some sort of obstacle and switch to making a self recirculating eddy current tube, get frustrated and try to design and build an electronically commutated counter rotating propeller driver, get frustrated and try to build a garage sized 3d printer, get frustrated and try to build a delayed action door closer get frustrated and try to build a co-planar compound cycloidal reducer, get frustrated and then forget my wife’s anniversary until 4pm the day before.
Probably a bikini inspector at my favourite beach… Seriously though the Bibbulmun Track.
I can recommend a big stupid project where it’s not a big deal if you fail.
Until recently, for me that would’ve meant “run Windows programs on Android,” mashing together Wine and e.g. Unicorn Engine… but now there’s like six different “userland emulators” vying for preference. FEX-emu, Box86, others with even sillier names.
I did manage a bespoke 8-bit FPS. That only took about two months. And then I’ve been idly tweaking it over the last two years. Splitscreen multiplayer, as a joke, was maybe not the best idea.
What’d take both time and space is some extremely low-end VR. I am convinced that Quest-ish headsets could cost, like, fifty bucks. The big players keep iterating clever hacks from a decade ago. Solving those problem, instead of avoiding those problems. Light should be collimated by default, which means a point source, which is any single LED. Rendering has to be detached from software performance, which means projecting the nearby world to e.g. floating dots instead of directly making a flat image. Inside-out tracking is at least the right idea, but it doesn’t have to be especially good in order to ground an inertial estimate.
Technically not a sabbatical, but I saved up a bunch of money, quit my job, and have been studying abroad in Japan.
