After 5 years of trying, ive finally convinced the boy to backpack with me!
Posted by mermaidnzFor the past 3 years especially, i have been hounding my partner to go backpacking, we have tried before, but its always fell thru, maybe because his heart wasnt really into it, or maybe we subconsiously let life get in the way.
the past year we have saved up for an apartment,which is great, we brought furniture for the first time in the 6 years i have lived out of home-i was always too scared to get possessions incase i got to backpack.And less then 6 months ago i brought a new car so i could learn to drive.
We moved to australia just over 2 years ago to get his career off the ground, but each job attempt failed, it was always one thing or another, dodgy employers, false job descriptions “no, theres no cold calling” yeah-fucking-right! or the worst one of all,the day he got his dream job and 2 months later they realised they had ‘overstaffed’ and didnt have the resourses to train up the recruitment specialist like they thought. heartbreaking for him, and fucking pain in the ass for me.
So we get to now, the market is looking shit to buy property in here right now, plus im super scared to get anything in case it ties me down, and the boy has started his financial diploma papers,so hes out of work.what better time to travel! or at least plan it… at first we made silly little goals like *if jas doesnt get a perfect job by december 1st we will go* then it became *if jas gets a good job,but hasnt worked his way up by dec 1,we will go* we realised we were making excuses, fuck it. lets just go, get it over and done with so i can never complain that we never done it, and ill never be that mid life crisis woman who ups and leaves her family randomly to backpack, with tits down to my knees and no hot guys to carry my bags.