Quit job for long bike tour-ride?

[tulip]

I recently left my corporate job and now I work from home with my own company (3 people in 3 cities in 2 states). It's so much more flexible. I don't see myself taking a year off or anything, but I could take a few months off as long as I had internet access and could work on my projects part time. With a laptop and the internet I could go cycle through France, for instance, for a few months. Perhaps I will do just that!

Of course, I'm very connected to my work. It means alot to me, what I do. But if I had a job that I didn't care about (like the position that I left), I wouldn't want to take that work with me.

[spindizzy]

My massage therapist is doing that ride this dummer (B.C. to Newfoundland)
Wah!..... no massage therapist. She has her own business, so she can close up shop for 3 months. I am totally envious.

About 8 years ago, I tried to convice my husband to get someone to replace him at his job (he is a physio, 1/3 partner in 2 clinics), rent out our house and go live in Whistler B.C. for a year. (I love to ski) He told me I was impractical. So we never did. But I still wish I had. Life experience. And it would have only for a year. Kids were still in elementary school. Life is too short. I think if you have planned it out well, it is not that big of a risk. And what an experience in return.

I'd ask for a sabbatical, LOA,whatever. I'd work extra. And if that is a dream of yours, I say go for it. Make it happen.

[MomOnBike]

One observation:

Generally, speaking, you are much more liable to regret the things you DIDN'T do, as opposed to the things you did. There are exceptions, of course, but this is generally true.

As the poet (Burns?) said:

Of all the words of mice and men
There's none so sad is "it might have been"

(OK, I tried to Google the quote, but it didn't come up, but that's the jist of it)