You are now my daily web Purpose-Driven life. Your thoughts are pretty much spot on. Sometimes we're want great things but afraid to take risks. You are right about bringing something in and letting something out. Life is just like that, we have to deal with that.

Jonha

But if you are dreading the move, could it be that you have collected too much stuff from all the travels? I have lead a full life and raised children doing the 7-7 grind of a fast paced job on the East coast of the US. Now I'm settled in a tiny mobile home in a rural area. I make $300-500 a month selling the stuff I've accumulated, which is more than enough to live on. I spend my time hiking, camping, and writing, which I love.

It sounds like you might have a lot to write about and share with others. Even if you have to take a daily job, you could still carve out some time to do the things you like. All is not lost, just because you have decided to work again.

I only came across your blog today 13/3/2010 courtesy from a friend's recommendation.
I am a Malaysian Chinese who grew up in the Far East.
My boyhood dream is to have a chance to go study abroad and to see the world out there. But I never made it due to financial difficulties which my parents couldn't afford.
I struggled by working hard while financing my college fees. Eventually I graduated.

After 3 years of hard work, I realized that it is the right time for me to leave home. I had a stable career,
I was promoted, I have a very supportive wife(back then girlfriend) that shares the similar dream (to travel)
I could have chosen "comfort" routes like anyone else, own a car, a house and a family. And I realized it's all about commitment. I was only 23 then. Imagine the monthly mortgages, car loans, bills, expenses that you need to service for years to come. I'll be probably stuck there!

But I didn't. I've chosen to leave my comfort zone.
Me and my wife both quit our job and head off to the United Kingdom; London. Telling our self it's only going to be an adventurous 2 years here. To widen up our horizon, to gain more exposure, experience and to achieve one of our dream which is to travel (we're passionate about travel)

London is so unpredictable and today we are still here after a 5 rocky years! We have moved houses/rooms/flats/apartments/studios for 9 times within this past 5 years!
Recently we just got back from our Central/South America trip after having our career break. I quit my job mainly due to job sucks (exactly the same scenario as mentioned in your article "If you're stuck, take an adventure").

I felt so relief and proud that I left my company and had a really great time with my wife in Cuba, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil. It was just awesome, mesmerizing, and it was like one of the best moment in our life!
But now I am back in to the real world again. At this very second as I'm typing this bit of comment, I am actually job hunting, worrying about when is someone going to call me up for an interview and offer me a job (to survive).
Worse still tomorrow going to be a long tiring day as I'll be moving house again! For the 10th time! This round it's going to be just a room in a flat-share for me and my wife. So talking about comfort zone huh?

Sometimes I was dejected knowing that "that's life sigh…". You dictate your own life, you chose your own path and hope it's a correct choice and live with no regrets. Perhaps it might be time for me to go home? Err… to get back some comfort zone?
Only time will tell I guess.

I have a friend who ran a national storage company. He told me that people would sign up to pay for storage with auto credit card payments and would maybe stop by once every 5 years and never took anything out. Therefor he said they were paying cash to store items of little economic utility to them.

When my wife and I moved out of our tiny one bedroom apartment in NYC into a two bedroom apartment in Northern Virginia, our possessions doubled in a day, having gone to buy furniture to fill it up. We then bought a town house nearby and our furniture and possessions quadrupled. Now we live in Seattle in a house nearly three times the size of the house we owned in Virginia. And I cannot imagine how big of a truck it would take to move us out of here.

Basically, the more space you have the more you will likely have to buy to furnish it and therefore, people should think long and hard about the space they need. Having grown up in apartments and being comfortable with no possessions, I am sure I could move back into a smaller lifestyle. All I really need is conversation and content (and access to the Internet) and there is an abundance of that.

I would not miss any of the things I own