Life Part II

Jon Look and Vonda Look in New Mexico

Vonda and I are without doubt lucky ones. At relatively young ages (50, 43) we have decided to retire from our current careers and see what else life has to offer. It isn’t that we have been miserable. Work for both of us has been rewarding. It has also been at other times frustrating and confining. On balance staying wouldn’t be bad but it is time to move on to Life Part II. There is a lot to see and experience out there and it isn’t going to happen if we sit sequestered here in our comfortable existence. It is time to break from our comfort zones both mentally and physically. I mean really, how much of this “stuff” do we really need? We have made the decision to sell almost everything we own and spend the next several years seeing the world one country at a time.Making the leap is frankly a bit scary. Have we planned enough? What about the conveniences we have become used to? What about red tape? What about pulling up all the anchors and intentionally allowing ourselves to drift? Won’t we get bored? How hard is it to live without a “permanent” base? We are about to have these questions answered by doing.We are currently taking care to find answers to as many of the questions as we can. As always, it is the unknown questions (unknown unknowns) that are most troubling. We don’t worry too much about that though. We know those questions will in time find us. One thing that we are rapidly learning is how many people we know live in fear of the unknowns. How many people that are willing to sit comfortably at home with their known fears not daring to challenge themselves beyond their comfort zones. That would be easy and quite frankly we understand it. We just don’t choose to live that way.

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