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This Friday was the last time I'm going to touch mail again until June. That is because the upcoming trip I've briefly mentioned, is right around the corner, and I got myself some camera equipment to make sure I will have the camera functional whenever there's something worthwhile to capture.

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I still don't want to tell exactly where we are going, because I feel it would be anticlimatic to tell in advance. But you can make educated guesses. What kind of a trip it will be, you can already put together looking at the picture though: a roadtrip. And like I said, it is _we_ going on the trip, me and three other good friends of mine.

The possibility for the trip presented itself by the initiation of my friends, who planned to go for a trip. I do have the job now, but I do have the flexibility to not work for a period if I so choose. I've realized the value in work and earning for myself to build a financial foundation for myself. It has also followed with an increased sense of self-respect. It hasn't been soul crushing, it has been uplifting. It probably helps that I have a clear plan panned out that I'm going to be executing while time progresses. Haven't talked about it until now, but 10% of what I earn is going to be invested by traditional means. No, that doesn't mean I don't think crypto or blockchain won't succeed. Just that I want to have less risky (and less volatile) assets too. I will still have my crypto holdings and will buy more here and there (I'm thinking of perhaps using approx 5% of my monthly earnings for that purpose), so if crypto goes moon, great, if not, I can live with that and not get completely crushed.

Anyway, this wasn't supposed to be about investing, but it just so happens I got drifted there through several _donkey-bridges_ (yet another Finnish idiom, this one probably sounds the dumbest of them all in English).

That being said, when there is an opportunity for a trip that is most likely a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence, there's simply no other option than saying "yes" for me. There will be a three-week period of not working during the trip, but that is fine, because after that I can work for the whole summer, if I want.

Though if this would've not been initiated by my friends, there would've been no trip at all for me, and I would've just kept working. This is the reason why I'm pretty excited about the trip, because I already have experience by traveling internationally alone, but not with friends, so it will be a new experience.

I already have experience traveling alone, and I don't have much desire to do that anymore at the moment. It is true that you can get friends on the road – and I did, for the brief moment at least, but they haven't been lasting ones. Not like the ones I have at home or even those on Steem.





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