Vacation offers the chance to relax and restore overall well-being. But simply taking a hiatus from your demanding workday schedule isn’t enough. Torn between ambitions and challenges, haven’t we all wished if we could travel for our living?
Gathering new experiences, stretching your comfort boundaries, travel is a perfect food for the soul. And a 35-year-old touring on his bicycle has figured it out just right.
“I’m not going to spend the best years of my life doing something completely meaningless,”
says Benedict, a traveler who is cycling across the globe. Work is play for Benedict who is also a fishing guide on his dad’s charter boat back home in Connecticut but only for about six months a year. And the rest of the months he spends traveling spending only about just $10 per day. A vegan he finds no difficulty is feeding himself without reaching out to the supermarket.
Benedict is unsure of his annual income as he hates to calculate money though he says that he can live comfortably on $10,000 a year. Whatever he earns, he chooses to keep most of his cash buried in plastic bags. The only time he uses a bank account is when he has to buy or sell his bicycle parts on eBay. His rides have no goals say Benedict who finds himself the most relaxed on the roads. He prefers sleeping outside, sleeping indoors for only about two weeks per year.
For his sheer hatred for paperwork and bills, Benedict who also goes by the name of Ultraromance, pieced together a bike and hit the road. Benedict just like the most of us was chained down by the norms of the society initially, forced to follow institutions when he realized that it was probably not his calling.
“I went to college and got the degree and was trying to … do the hustle right out of college. Then it was like, I gotta get a house, I’m 24, I got all these student loans … Before you know it, things work out and you meet the right girl and you settle down and buy the house and have the mortgage payment and the cars.”
“But ultimately that was not going to be me.”
says Benedict in an interview with the Business Insider.
“I’m not ashamed that I don’t like to work,” he says claiming that it take only 9 hours a week to procure everything one needed to live. “The rest was all leisure time,”
he said.
“This is what’s natural to us.”
It took Benedict six years to figure out what find what he really wants and balances them out in his life. Benedict also runs an awestruck-ing Instagram handle where he shares pictures of his adventures which is followed by an impressive amount of 79.9k followers.
Shedding off the yoke of bills, loans, and cash; Benedict is riding happily off on his bike through gorgeous landscapes sometimes alone, sometimes in a company.
