How to finance a Journey through Europe - How we achieved our first dream with the help of our passions

in life •  7 years ago 

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Many people we met often ask us how we financed our Journey through Europe and being on the road for such a long time without working. Especially our restored Van attracts attention and almost every Van enthusiast wonders how we could afford a restoration plus the Journey. Most of all, classic cars like this is usually only found locked away in hidden garages of some car collectors, only being used on sunny sundays. We didn't want that and wanted to give our Van the great adventures it deserved.

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To answer all these people here comes our answer and a little introduction in how we managed to get to this point and finance a Journey for many months.

Apart from our normal jobs that cover our everyday expenses like rent and food we both have side projects. We both are enthusiastic with crafting and creating and always used our hands to compensate our everyday jobs.

Alisa is apart from being a nurse a passionate jewelry maker and crafts silver rings and pendants and combines them with everything that comes from the ocean or has something to do with it. Simply beautiful Ocean jewelry.
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If you are interested in any of her works than also just feel free to see her Instagram account @AGS.jewelry. She used to sell her jewelry also on the road, especially surfers like her work. In case you still search for Christmas gifts ?

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Adam is busy in crafting wooden products. As architect he sits a lot in an office and unfortunately works most of the time with the computer. Woodwork is a great compensation and a nice way of combining the everyday work of an architect with Design and the practical knowledge about materials. AMF-STUDIO is the brand name of his label and where he is the designer of the wooden products.

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On his website www.amf-studio.com and his Instagram account @amf-studio you can find many more of his designs. He loves to collaborate with other Designers and is in constant search for Inspiration.

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We are very happy to have achieved our first dream with the help of our passions and that the Joy we have in being creative has led us to to places like this.
We hope that we can inspire you to always follow your gut feelings rather than following the typical societies expectations because....

[...} in the end you won't remember the time you have spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that gooddamn mountain [...]

-Jack Kerouac -

We are also curious to hear what you do in order to find ways of doing what you love. Do you have side projects , hobbies that you can already even earn from or just any other kind of project, that brings you closer to what you want in Life ?

please share with us, leave a comment and up vote so that we can reach out to more people :)

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Thanks for sharing! It is amazing what you are doing! I hope we will manage to get on the same level sometime in the future! :)

Just two words: Innovative, Resourceful ^^
Love the VW van, it's reminiscing...

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