They Took a Year Off Work to Cycle the World: Katy and Alan
About this episode
Katy and Alan share their experiences of taking a year off work to cycle 20,000km around the world, highlighting key lessons from their journey.
Katy and Alan spent five years dreaming about this adventure and then went ahead, put their careers on pause and spent a full year cycling 20,000km around the world. Halfway through the adventure, a monotonous desert section through Central Asia nearly broke them, so they threw out their initial planned route and let the trip become something even better. These are the key lessons from their journey: You don't need to wait for retirement to take a big adventureA plan is a starting point but i...
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