This link has already been on HN once, and yeah, it helped me to make decision to follow my dream and do a 6 month travel to SE Asia. Thanks Alex! Cheers from KL :)
I seem to recall the last time this was posted I commented and said for people to do this! If you wait and you get baggage, it makes it much harder to do. But I took some of my own advice and just last week I spent a week in Nicaragua working in a camp for the youths of the surrounding cities. Best thing I've done in a long time! I can't wait for my trip to Thailand in October. BTW, I'm doing this with a soul-sucking enterprise IT job with a wife and 2 kids. So if I can do it, you can too (albeit scaled back a bit).
Do you keep the same soul sucking enterprise IT job, or save up, travel and then find a new one when you return?
What do you do about maintaining a permanent base at "home"? This one's the biggest struggle for me; how do you travel without having somewhere stable to come back to? I'd have to be bringing at least £1.7k/month just to cover rent/mortgage and fixed costs for a house in the UK on top of what it would cost for the traveling itself. I don't think finding a new place to live every time I come home would work.