Bored Panda works better on our iPhone app
Continue in app Continue in browser

Add post form topAdd Post
Tooltip close

The Bored Panda iOS app is live! Fight boredom with iPhones and iPads here.

The Recipe For A Perfect Life? 1. Quit Your Job 2. Buy A Van 3. Travel!
User submission
11
2.7K

The Recipe For A Perfect Life? 1. Quit Your Job 2. Buy A Van 3. Travel!

ADVERTISEMENT

Everybody is searching for the recipe for a perfect life. But there is a guy, Mike Hudson, who seems to have found it. And it sounds really simple:

1. Quit your job
2. Build a campervan
3. Travel

Mike’s story is one that starts with a lot of dreaming – like many people around the globe, he wanted to live in a van and travel the world. But unlike many people around the globe, he didn’t let his dream die. Mike quit his job, moved out his house in Sheffield, UK, gave away the furniture and bought a big old van.

“The first few days I was overwhelmed with things I needed to do. The van was a mess. It got worse the more time I spent with it; more rust, holes in floor, oil leaks, bodge after bodge. It was a write-off and it even had forklift truck marks underneath where it had probably been shifted about some scrap yard”, he tells the story.

Job well done, in March 2014 the van was ready and the journey began.

Two years later Mike is in Morocco, travelling slowly.

“I travel by van because it lets me live a simple happy life of freedom, adventure and experience variety every day”, he says.

If you wonder how it happened, here is Mike: “Turning a dream into reality is a human thing that we are all wired to do. Quitting my job to travel was a decision that now I see as the best decision of my life.”

ADVERTISEMENT

More info: travelbench.net

RELATED:

    Mike’s story is one that starts with a lot of dreaming – like many people around the globe, he wanted to live in a van and travel the world

    But unlike many people, he didn’t let his dream die. Mike quit his job, moved out his house in Sheffield, UK, gave away the furniture and bought a big old van

    The first few days he was overwhelmed with things he needed to do. The van was a mess

    ADVERTISEMENT

    More rust, holes in floor, oil leaks, bodge after bodge…

    ADVERTISEMENT

    … All were gone once Mike got working on it

    In March 2014 the van was ready and the journey began

    Mike says that he travels by van because it lets him live a simple happy life

    ADVERTISEMENT

    Life of freedom, adventure and experience variety every day

    Turning a dream into reality is a human thing that we are all wired to do

    “Quitting my job to travel was a decision that now I see as the best decision of my life” – says Mike

    ADVERTISEMENT

    3Kviews

    Share on Facebook
    203 Travel Challenges

    203 Travel Challenges

    Author, Community member

    Read more »

    Seeing traveling as a series of fun and creative challenges!

    Read less »
    203 Travel Challenges

    203 Travel Challenges

    Author, Community member

    Seeing traveling as a series of fun and creative challenges!

    What do you think ?
    You May Like
    Related on Bored Panda
    Related on Bored Panda
    Trending on Bored Panda
    Also on Bored Panda