How it all started

This is the Story how it all started and with 'it' I mean the decision to quit my job, leave my home behind and travel the world.

After a few dates Niklas and me discovered our shared love for traveling and we joked about traveling the world together one day. Although this jokes got realer every time we would talk about it and slowly the idea of a worldtrip formed. 
A few weeks later Niklas shared a post on Instagram where he calculated that he would just need a year to save up money for doing another worldtrip. The moment I saw the posting I called him and begged him to just do it. He say okay (he had quite big concerns back then).

The problem was that I already quit my job at this time and sign in to study at the University but while studying it would have been pretty hard to save up enough money for traveling. So I decided to postpone going to University and I went to my boss at work and simply ask if it is possible to keep my job. She gladly said yes and I kept on working for another year to save every penny possible. 

Even I knew Niklas just three months I dedicated everything to make this worldtrip happen. I guess I just hoped that this love would be strong enough to get through this year and to make this happen. Traveling the world is one of my big goals in life and with Niklas I hoped that I finally found a person to share this goal with me. So after we decided to try it both of us started to save money. The details how about how much we saved and what we did will be in another blogpost.


where: Vienna, Austria

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