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How to Live Your Life Like a Gap Year
It takes work to reach a point where it doesn’t feel like work
Next Wednesday I am boarding a plane to Mongolia. Back in 2017, I’d had to cancel that trip, long anticipated, due to a broken back. A fractious horse tossed me ass over teakettle at a dead run in Kazakhstan. I not only cracked a bunch of bones off my spine, but I also seriously cranked my right shoulder.
Surgeries, rehab and one heck of a lot of PT later, I am headed back. This time, it’s going to be too cold to ride horses in the Altai Mountains, but I have a superb itinerary of home stays, local research and am heading out to the Eagle Festival to research how folks prepare. I’ll be riding camels in the Gobi and learning how to fly those eagles while living with a family.
Then I am home for five weeks hitting the gym and the stairs, only to take off for four weeks in Ethiopia. I’ll be riding Abyssinian horses at 12,000 feet, visiting Coptic churches and hiking one of the hottest places on the planet, ISO flowing lava in the Danakil Depression.
In February, I head to Africa again, to scuba dive Mafia Island, ride horses in the Mara and work for my client in Tanzania.
Sound like fun?