I started with a 2 week hike in Scotland. Did a trail called the West Highland Way. Followed that up with walking the length of Hadrians Wall in northern England, coast to coast. I took a flight to Poland after and bus hopped my way through Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, ending in Greece where I chilled at a hostel for a good while in Athens.

Lots of time to think and sort out what was important to me. Came home, started a new career, moved north. Decided wtf I was going to do with my life 🙃 and it hasn’t at all gone exactly to plan, but it was formative to say the least. I did all of that on a $9k (Canadian) budget. Flights and everything. But I lived out of a backpack