hello there I'm Claire I'm Chad and we decided to travel the world full-time
after college
so you're probably wondering why because we both are as sad we had the really
great opportunity to go and jump around to all of their abroad campuses in 2018
we were able to go study abroad in Hong Kong and then in 2019 we were able to go
study abroad Lacoste France study abroad opportunities gave us a chance to not
just travel to these places but to actually live and experience what it's
like to be like a local in these areas so we kind of got this urge to travel
but not just to travel it was more like experiencing a country beyond their
tourist destinations being able to hear a language that we might not understand
but also to be able to eat their food made from produce and spices from their
local region and I think that was the first like big spark of not just wanting
to see everything by wanting to experience it as well while we were
studying abroad in Hong Kong we took the opportunities on the weekends to have
cheaper flights from Hong Kong to Taiwan to Thailand and we also got to go to
Bali so we tried to really take advantage of all of the time that we had
there and I just love how light our travels got like we just didn't need
much and we're experiencing so much and packing it all into one weekend right so
if you've been keeping up with my most recent project you would have seen that
I'm working on a series called the quarter life crisis and that was another
thing that kind of sparked this idea that we're living in our golden years or
at least that's what everyone calls it that like the 20s are your big exciting
years kind of like the years where you supposedly of course in a more
traditional sense get married have kids establish your career graduate college
all these really big things and you get a lot of pressure from society and like
what they expect of you but also friends and family and just like everyone their
opinions and advice are just like kind of piling down
on us at least and I feel like a lot of other 20 year olds you know this decade
is so special and after watching way too many videos about life being so short
and never knowing when you're gonna die I had this idea that like if I were to
die at 30 would I be doing what I want to do with this decade of my life which
sounds super dark but it's actually kind of a good way to look at your life and
what you want to accomplish within a short span of time as far as like my
background in high school and throw even middle school I would make a lot of
different videos and I was just trying so hard to tell a story pick up a camera
just shoot things learn and this medium was just so exciting to me and it was
also like growing up with the initial YouTube where it was just like these
viral videos was really interesting throughout high school I had a group of
friends that I would go shoot with and we do like weekly newscast videos and it
was just always something different it was a music video or commercials or we
just go around interviewing people like one of the things we did was we asked
people in the hallways what's your favorite color and describe it using a
sound and just like these little silly acts of just telling the story and
making people think was some of like my favorite parts of growing up and I've
always missed that going through college and starting advertising and branding I
look back and I'm like it all involves storytelling whether it's branding or
advertising or whatever it is it's just telling a story and sharing it with
people and that's like the strongest storm we can have in community I also
think that's somewhere that we really click because I feel like with my work
at the moment at least I really like making people think or like having
people wonder about things that they might not have thought about before the
whole idea of storytelling is definitely somewhere that we kind of mix especially
with having majors that are so different I'm a fibers major so that's very
opposite of advertising and really we found that whenever we're traveling we
get so much inspiration and although we might be tired from traveling and from
planning and all of it it's just the most rewarding part of life though we've
been able to find because you're constantly learning and just seeing new
things where whenever you start to get in a routine
is when days just click by so fast and it's harder to grasp each day and also
at this point we have such a great privilege do not have any
responsibilities holding us back here of course I know this is a case for
everyone that's why we're so privileged to be able to do this but we don't have
any kids we don't have any debt or student loans which I'm super grateful
for and of course we do have savings that we can't spend on whatever we'd
like at the moment we're thinking about departing in September of 2020 which is
actually like really soon so we have just about nine months to prepare for
this journey and we're really excited to make videos that kind of show how we're
packing for this and how we're just preparing to leave the state Stanly
currently kind of like the background what's going on through our heads why
are we doing this and it's easy to say it's not well it's not easy to capture
on video but as we're going through each of these steps of packing of graduating
hopefully we can start to explain our mindset and how we're kind of coming to
this conclusion so where are we gonna start we're planning on starting in Asia
right now we're talking about going to Taiwan first and that's actually where
Claire's parents first immigrated from when they came to the US
nothing's totally sad yet but we think that Asia would be a good place to start
just because culturally I'm kind of like connected to that area but also I can
use my freaking Chinese sometimes if we need to get around in areas that do
speak Mandarin Chinese but also it's very cheap so I think that could be a
really nice start for us and the last is how we're doing this we're using like
all of my savings basically my sophomore year I was able to save up some money
from being an RA here at school and I've slowly kind of used that money to buy
camera and from our travels and I'm still working on getting some savings
going I've just been raised in such a frugal household that I have to save
like just a weird amount of money that would allow us to travel the world for
at least a year without needing income of course we are gonna try to
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