I bought a 25' sailboat when I graduated college. Three years later, my girlfriend left me, both my jobs cut my hours, and I kind-of hated myself. So I took my boat and left. Sailed from Lake Ontario to the Bahamas, living aboard for 6 months. It was lonely, and difficult. But it was also, beautiful, and empowering. I relate to the message of this video perfectly. I think, sometimes we have to invite hardships into our lives to overcome them and become ourselves.
Bro trench 745 I’m going through the exact same thing the exact same situation my girl left me my job is gone I got fired and I’m losing so much that I’ve fell in despair and I feel like I can’t dig myself out and hard to go on knowing that this is the only thing on my mind rn
the ending remarks were beautiful. i solo backpacked around europe for a month right after breaking up w my girlfriend & felt the exact same way. it didn’t solve my problems but it let me be my true self for a month. it showed me there’s more to this world than what i had known my whole life
Well said! Same experience here backpacking around Europe for a month after some major life shakeups. It didn’t solve any of the issues back home but it certainly gives you a new perspective
At age 27 I solo backpacked for an entire year (20 countries). I had spent most of my 20s working jobs I hated, drinking away the weekends, and feeling so lost. I fantasized about disappearing, meditating in the woods, and "Finding myself". Man, I was not prepared for how many people I would meet traveling or how much human connection I'd encounter along the way. I didn't solve all of my problems in that year, but It did reshape how I approach life. Looking back, I remember a lot more of the bad times than I do the good. Those times when I was stranded in the rain, forced to hitchhike, or eating canned sardines on a pier on Loch Ness. Most importantly, the experience taught me that with enough planning, effort, and patience, I can achieve almost anything I set my mind to. So can you...
If I can ask, i'm 16 year old and i've been pretty much a dream to go on backapacking trips when i turn 18, How much did you have in term of money for your year backpacking? Was it difficult to find places to sleep how was it? what was your experience? i'm really curious to know how it was and if you enjoyed it ofc :)
How much did you save up to travel 20 countries? Last year I did 4 countries at once as I’m a budget traveler myself, but love to know how you managed 20.
@@petitqc9425 fr im 16 too and I was going to deadass ask all the same questions, I definatly would love to spend my twenties on the road and travel the world. Im still trying to figure out the logistics but ill make it happen somehow. I would love some incite if you can!
this is eerily similar to my situation and my plan later next year to backpack for a year (when i'll be 27 as well). thanks for sharing your experience, helps me temper my expectations and know what to expect :)
@@iammyslef12 Good luck on your trip! At the end of the day, it's best to have a general plan and then be open to the flow. No need to try and account for every scenario, you'll adapt as you go.
@@Jinnsengsome things are never meant to be told, that’s the beauty of it, the idea of so many stories, so many tragedies and loves, millions upon millions, and we will only truly only know ours.
God... I can kinda relate. After graduating from high school and enrolling and college and meeting a bunch of people that didn't knew me or have a mold for me. It was empowering, and freeing.
You have no idea how I relate to this. I’m a freshman in college right now and this itch is just unbearable. I hate just sitting here and not being able to find myself, I need to do this and experience the world that’s out there, while I am still young and healthy, by gods grace.
fellow indian here mate! I feel what you feel. I just graduated this year and ik what you feel. I tried going to a random place by getting in a train into the Unreserved coach and got a ticket to the last stop. Just had 2 pairs of clothes, a tooth-brush, 3500 rupees & my mobile's charger. If you're south try north and vice versa to live through new experiences & new emotions. You'll meet new people and the society will eventually talk to you even if you don't initiate any convo (words coming from an introvert). At some point they'll get down the train and you remember that you forgot to ask their name. This blissful experience is something that you can experience if you travel alone to a place unknown and learn Life's lessons. Try this out mate! Cheers to your travel.
Same :( All I want to do is travel, and although college is important I think learning about yourself through adventure and experiencing new things is equally as important
Just finished my first semester of year 2, and the burnout is rough. I feel you. I was in a degree path I had zero interest in, just doing it for the sake of saying I did. I made the decision to "drop out" of school (I say that in air quotes as I'm still with the university, but I'm in a different program that I won't be getting a degree from). I'll be in a new program next semester to get a certificate in a trades job. It might not sound like the most glamorous thing, but having that hard reset has made me the happiest I've been in a while. Long story short, sometimes we've just got to stop, take a step back and just go a different way to find happiness.
I just don't click with college as a Sophmore, and have some money and just want to buy a nice little boat and just sail around the Carribean for a while. I don't think I will, but I think about it fondly and often. So maybe some day.
Are you kidding me? The extent of you 'finding yourself', will end in playing video games, or some other such nonsense. You will not do anything. If you had it in you to truly trek out and "find yourself", you would just do it. You're all talk.
Doing something like this is everything I want out of life. Just go - see the world. Live by its whims, on its schedule. I'm at a crossroads in my life right now. I lost my life partner. I feel empty. Nothing brings the joy it once did. But the road still calls to me. I'm 10 years from retirement. Should I get to the end of the career shaped road and enjoy the spoils then, or do I take a page from this video and just - go; live in the moment? Decisions, decisions. Beautiful video by the way!
@@Armeanu91 I've been balancing a life between the two - work and pleasure. If it was just me I'd go, but when my partner left, she left more than just me. I have mouths to feed, and children to love.
"It's by getting lost that you find your way". That is what I learnt with my very first trip all by myself, just like you did, bud. I was running away from a feeling of uselessness and going to a dead end. But it helped me overcome the problems. I encourage each and every one of you all to experience it at least once in your lifetime. Peace ! ✌️
I've spent about the last 8 years doing a similar thing, wasting time in my room on video games and only really leaving for food and work. Lost jobs, lost relationships, lost what feels like everything. I've just bought my first motorcycle, 86 Honda that needs a little work, but when she's done I'm taking a trip and we'll see what I can figure out for myself. Thanks for making this video
I've done something similar but with a Volvo from 1983. If you manage to take it on a good trip, believe me: you'll always relive the moments of that trip.
I've been traveling solo since 2020. I was scared at first, faith helped a lot. Within a year I was used to my own country, Im still getting used to everywhere else
The more i watch your videos, the more I feel I can see some insight into your own life. From what I can tell, you are a beautiful person. Who am sure has flaws, but in of the day, you understand life is a gift that you are not willing to just let slip by.
True satisfaction takes years and decades. Failing shows were we need to improve, its a necessary feeling growing up. Nothing to be afraid or ashamed of.
"you'd be a nobody. no expectations, no judgement. so, instead of acting how people expect you to be, you act how you really feel with complete agency and without feeling guilty for not trying hard enough." this is exactly what i have thought for years. that, if i just packed my bags and moved to a completely different country, where no one knew me, i could finally be myself. i could finally live my life the way i want to, without feeling like i'll be judged by people around me. thats exactly why im scared to change how i live, despite how much i hate myself and my life. im afraid of what people around me will think. maybe one day i'll finally be able to escape all this, and finally be able to move somewhere else. but that sure as hell wont be any time soon.
3 months ago I left my job and family to live out my car and travel the country for a while. I can definitely say this has already been such an amazing and life changing experience and it’s not even over yet
Man! Reminded me of the amazing feelings I had doing this same kind of trip last September. It was only a week long, waking up in the morning, driving a bit, finding a rural spot, be it a lake, river, big tree - whatever looked interesing - hanging out, meeting local folks... but what an absolute blast. I don't exactly know what was so special about it, but I can't wait going on the road again!
Sometimes you get so stressed that you just have to go. On a whim I drove from NY To Colorado. It took me 3 days of driving. I met up with a family member and her neighbor taught me how to do interior painting to make some cash for my stay. I met a girl out there as well. Experience is everything
Having done something similar last year I feel very much the same way. Having never really traveled but always dreamt of going to Japan and to go backpacking I booked a ticket and skipped Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka to go straight to Shikoku to walk the Shikoku 88 pilgrimage. Never have I ever met kinder and more amazing people, or been happier and felt so much at peace for the months I spent just walking and exploring. It's not for everyone, but never let fear of being alone hold you back from realizing your dreams. If no one will come with you, you will make new friends on the road.
Up until now, I'm still having bouts of depression and sometimes it can swallow you whole. One thing that relaxes me is solo motorcycle rides. No destination, just cruising for a whole day, stopping by to eat street food, and taking some pictures. Sometimes it's just a few kilometers, but every now and then it becomes cross-country. That feeling of the wind on your face and that sense of solitude wherein you don't have to think much, just you and the road, man, it feels great.
i did this. left most of my belongings behind, packed what i could into my truck, and just drove. saw the whole country which was awesome. was misjudged as a criminal a few times which was not awesome. want to do it again, but next time with a better setup haha.
I drove from Ky to Seattle alone in my truck and stopped at every national park along the way. I recommend everyone do it at least once. I found who I really was and became comfortable with the solitude and eventually love the feeling of being completely alone.
God! The animation the writing the ambience everything is just a masterpiece and so relaxing!and this story/video is so good! This gives me goosebumps and made my eyes tear up a bit. Finally the nostalgia-like feeling that I never got?... Thanks for this channel😌
This is what I’ve spent my life saving for, there’s some things that keep me from traveling at the moment but when those responsibilities are completed I will backpack to my hearts content everywhere.
My friend, I did the same thing from Massachusetts to Florida. I made plans with my friends to go there but nobody came. So I had to decide. You reminded me to try another long road on june lol.
I remember when I was 21, visited EU and thought "yeah, I will have a tons of travel and exploration in the future". Then boom, few study years, CoVid, war, and I'm near the 30, full time job, another study year, burnouts, zero money, happy in some things, but I feel I lost my moment, my time to explore the world freely without thinking about anything. I think I will have a travels later, but you know, like an elder persons do, with family, booking a good hotels at the sea resort or cruise liners. Yeah, it's cool, but I feel I lost a chance for a wild adventures with a bike and myself or hitch-hiking Siberia or Middle-East exploring the things casual tourists would never see. It feel hard sometimes
Thank you for the video, man. This found me at a good/bad time in my life, and is reminding me that problems are just that - problems, daunting but always with an answer. I’m scared of the world and my place in it, but you know what? I think I’m ready. I’m ready to take the plunge.
Wow, I usually dont commnet youtube but this video hit me hard. Been a hikikomori and hated socializing. I decided to solo traveled and traveled more than 15 countries. I do not regret it at all. The best part was meeting super awsome travelers telling story that I will never forgets.
I’ve been sick to death on a cross country train trip, truck broken down on a trail with no reception, sprained ankle on a backpacking trip, etc. solo travel is hard and sometimes sucks. But it is also, in my opinion, the most rewarding and liberating experience one can do.
I'm about to embark on my first true solo trip to San Diego soon. I've been navigating post-grad life and processing a really difficult breakup for a while now. I stumbled upon this video by chance-maybe it's a sign or a blessing in disguise. Thank you for sharing your story and giving me the courage to go for it! I'll let you know how it goes when I get back. Just keep livin' ;)
Last year, I started to get out of the house more and even travel alone. I'm 30 and come from a family of mostly home bodies. This month ( January 2025 ) I'll be taken a trip to a cabin by a lake for two day's. I use to run away from my problems or feeling lonely. But by traveling I grew to appreciate and enjoy solitude. It's a six hour drive but I understand this now. I don't want to sit around wasting my life away anymore.
I did a similar trip. But I brought my bike back from the dead twice, because I wasn't finished yet. The third time it died I knew I was ready for the trip to end.
Reminded me of my solo trip to the roof of the world back in 2012. The trip didn't solve my problems, I had to do that myself, but at least I saw them for what they were... trivial in comparison to the world outside..
This was me last year. Ever since i got my first job in Highschool, I've always wanted to go to japan. But it was just a pipe dream. 12-13 yrs later which was last year, i decided to myself "fk it" im going to jp by myself. I worked my ass off for 6momths to save up lots for a 5 week trip to japan, and actually managed to meet new people, experience new things, met relatives and felt the freedom. Now im going again for the 2nd time in a few weeks with the new friends i met. Just like your video, it reminds me of it.
3 years ago i left my home and moverd to big city. It was difficult, i have problems with loans and health now. But it also helped me mature and be more open to people ant the world. Thank you for you story!
Thank you for sharing your story. It just reminded me of my younger version which I thought I lost my connection to - but apparently I didn't. Your video left a spark that gives me not only hope for the future, but enough energy to something to work on for. Thanks
I'll have my first solo travelling experience starting on tuesday and I'm excited as hell I'm anxious but I know it'll be good First time solo travelling and it's the other side of the world ":D I'm so grateful to be able to make this experience and I'm excited to make the most out of it and grow as a person 💙
I want to do this. I want to get my truck ready fix everything on it, new engine, new transmission, a betting intake system, a fresh paint job, and then I just go, pack everything into it and I just leave, go see things I haven’t seen, talk to people I’ve never known, and be free from it all. It’s be nice to be truly alone for a while nothing but me, the truck, and road.
I higly relate to that feeling too. I walked on the way to Saint Jacques de Compostela, from Paris, for 26 days. I walked +490km, all alone, and I felt so damn good since day one. I discovered the French country, walked through small villages, encountered a lot of generous people that I'm forever grateful for. Paradoxically, it was challenging yet extraordinary relaxing. Because I was walking and living at my pace, my own rythm that was mine and nobody can say a god damn thing about it!
I'm a freshman in college and I relate to this video so much. I have a bucket, and one of the big ticket items of that bucket list is to visit all 63 national parks of the United States. I enjoy the fantasy of dropping everything I'm doing and using my meager savings to visit a park; but I have too many responsibilities to myself. Fear and anxiety weigh me down, the more I think about my dream of visiting every national park, the less capable it seems of coming to fruition.
There is a guy with a motorcycle in a music video called "Siames - the wolf". In the video there are three people who run away from the wolf and the wolf symbolizes their problems. One with the bike is runing from his depression and this video just reminds me of that.
I've been riding since 1978 and I don't think this trip would have had the same effect if you're friends had joined you. It would still have been a great trip but in a very, very different way. Bike trips with friends are fun but solo trips are fulfilling.
Never knew I would find this channel and I'm glad I did. I have the same feeling of wanting to get away but for me it's about starting somewhere new and meeting new people.
One of the most meaningful things I ever did for myself was a solo ride across the country reconnecting w friends I hadn't seen in years and even some since high school. I was 36 and did the full trip in 21 days. SF Bay Area to Salt Lake City, Chicago, Portland Maine, Boston, Philly, did the entire Blue Ridge Parkway (the parts that were open), Asheville NC, Knoxville, DFW, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and then up 1 the rest of the way back to the bay. All told just shy of 8,000 miles by myself. Going to do it again this year, but different cities and different friends. I'm in my early 40s now and want to do it again while my body can still handle it. Y'all, if you ever have the chance and a bike that will not blow up on you, do it. It is life changing.
Those truck stop naps are friggin real. The number of times where I'd lean my backpack against a brick wall and give myself a 15m 'trucker nap' (as my Dad suggested, who was a trucker)
I’ve had many holidays on my own recently, as I’m divorced, & my sons are grown and have their own lives, also my friends are scattered all over the country now and so getting together is getting more difficult, so instead of waiting around for people to organise a trip with me, I decided to get out and travel, you get to meet people and also it’s nice to just spend time on my own, it’s not a new thing for me as I traveled to Australia on my own when I was in my early twenties, don’t wait for other people to have adventures with make them on your own.
I feel this. Last year when the union was on strike i always wanted to take a motorcycle trip so decided to just do it. With no plan i road from up by the Canadian border in wa all the way down to the bay area and back along the 101. It was only a week but man what an adventure. I have never felt so free in all my life
Dude this is awesome, great animation, great narration. I had a similar experience, took a gap year, plans fell through, so gaming became the day to day. I realized months later that simply passing the time was not something I wanted. I thought I did in school, oh to have all the free time in the world, but it’s worse than many think. I did a roadtrip! From CO to NC and finished in California. I never thought to see that feeling of running away that way. How you said that it didn’t solve them (I saw that part), but how you learned that in all these other places, no one knows you, you’re almost an alien taking a tour in a little space ship, at least I felt that way lol. Thanks man, I honestly struggled to reflect on why I did that roadtrip, and if I was just running away, I derived more meaning after seeing your perspective
Maybe, I'm so tired of chasing things that I don't want, because of the pressures of society. That, sometimes i just wanna leave everything and go somewhere. I live in a city filled with mountains and I feel their calling everyday. I just don't know how to leave. Maybe, I don't have that courage to just go, not thinking about where this road will lead, but I hate every living moment here, always wishing to be free. Neither parents nor friends understands what I want. Everybody have solutions, but nobody wants to listen. Everybody close to me is so busy chasing things and fitting in the society that they don't accept or respect my want of freedom.
I'm turning 18 at the beginning of next year and I'm really thinking about taking a month or at least a half to go hitchhiking to the south of Russia next summer. I don't expect it to be a peaceful healing paradise, I had some experience this year and it wasn't so great, but I just feel that it is what I need
In my junior year of college I had been mugged and robbed. Never caught the people who did it. The rest of my semester I was depressed and I barely left the house except for classes. When summer came by, I said fuck it and booked a solo trip through South America. Not the safest travel idea but I had such an amazing time and met people I still talk to today. I’ve done a few other solo trips and am planning one for Europe this spring. Solo trips are a beautiful experience.
Lovely video, deserves more views. Although a little misleading. The title could have simply been "Wanderlust". Leaving everything behind and disappear sounds more like transitioning into a whole different life somewhere else. I am 39 already and pretty broke. But I hope I can achieve my future goals - living in an RV and going anywhere I want at any moment, not being limited to a single period of time. I already am self employed, working over the internet, so I don't need a stationary place. But the ideal situation would be, if I could live off of my passion, a fully animated show I am working on. In any case, I can't put myself into the perspective of fully stationary people - those people, who get born somewhere, never really leave this place, live their entire life within like 5 miles of their birth place and die there at some point, especially when it's some tiny place, where NOTHING ever happens. I always need change in life, moving towns every couple years. With an RV, I could have change by the day. Always seeing new and unknown places keeps driving my creativity. Sitting in the same apartment every day kills it on the other hand.
@@prakharmishra4198 i checked again the comment, seems i didn't read your question well, I thought you are asking it from @mark_fuchs_1985 (because he made animations too), but seems you referee this channel animations. Im sorry for misunderstanding bro i dont know about this anims, hope you find it
To leave it all behind, to drift with the breeze, Is to find your soul in the whispers of trees. The road may be long, the journey unknown, But in nature's arms, you're never alone. A heart unburdened, a spirit set free, Is where true peace in the wild will be.
U know what I solo traveled to south of newsealand just 2 months after wa5ching this video. I just couldn't believe it.best thing I ever done in my life.Thanks lazy owl.just amazing.
There's always some catch in every journey. It wont solve any problem, but you'll get anything else. Either joy, solitude fear(which often overwhelming). Been always solo travel. With no plans except the destination. Sleep in front of closed shop. In front of church and mosque. Wondering will i see tomorow or still can continue. Hope i can do it again in the future.
I'd like to thank you for the video, LazyOwl. It reminded me of appreciating the little things and helped me connect to myself more. To feel at peace. 🌱☀️ - Best regards, M.
Some times you need to take your head out of the water, deep breath, oxygen your brain and your soul. we get overwhelmed and usually nobody ever taught you how to deal with this, how it feels, how to solve it. I like the analogy of the tree and the forest, some times where are so focus in the sorrounding trees that we can't see the forest! Then you understand you were running in circles; not finding the directions, no finding the help, not looking the tools infront of you. I liked your video, I was expecting a different content when was suggested by the algorithm (I watch a lot of traveling videos), but were a valuable 5min 30secs. Thanks for that.
"Life moves pretty fast. If you dont stop and look around you might miss it" - powerful words!
Powerful words from a certain movie
Yeah a tip of the hat to Ferris Bueller's Day Off would have been appropriate.
From Ferris bueller my quote to live by
@Magst3r1Lifted without credit, I might add.
What every person has to hear.
I bought a 25' sailboat when I graduated college. Three years later, my girlfriend left me, both my jobs cut my hours, and I kind-of hated myself. So I took my boat and left. Sailed from Lake Ontario to the Bahamas, living aboard for 6 months. It was lonely, and difficult. But it was also, beautiful, and empowering. I relate to the message of this video perfectly. I think, sometimes we have to invite hardships into our lives to overcome them and become ourselves.
You have some guts, man👍👍🙋
@ it's more like, I felt like I had nothing left to lose.
@@tench745 U really inspired me brother.
Thanks for sharing your insights,these kinda feelings really matters to me
I lost my job during the pandemic and ended up unemployed for nearly two years. I really wish I'd taken the time to do this with my boat.
Bro trench 745 I’m going through the exact same thing the exact same situation my girl left me my job is gone I got fired and I’m losing so much that I’ve fell in despair and I feel like I can’t dig myself out and hard to go on knowing that this is the only thing on my mind rn
This channel is such a hidden gem
I know right
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it's basically trash for children or no-lifers
Fr bro
@Alexey and yet your here commenting on the video lol
the ending remarks were beautiful. i solo backpacked around europe for a month right after breaking up w my girlfriend & felt the exact same way. it didn’t solve my problems but it let me be my true self for a month. it showed me there’s more to this world than what i had known my whole life
Well said! Same experience here backpacking around Europe for a month after some major life shakeups. It didn’t solve any of the issues back home but it certainly gives you a new perspective
That is from a movie
At age 27 I solo backpacked for an entire year (20 countries). I had spent most of my 20s working jobs I hated, drinking away the weekends, and feeling so lost. I fantasized about disappearing, meditating in the woods, and "Finding myself". Man, I was not prepared for how many people I would meet traveling or how much human connection I'd encounter along the way. I didn't solve all of my problems in that year, but It did reshape how I approach life. Looking back, I remember a lot more of the bad times than I do the good. Those times when I was stranded in the rain, forced to hitchhike, or eating canned sardines on a pier on Loch Ness. Most importantly, the experience taught me that with enough planning, effort, and patience, I can achieve almost anything I set my mind to. So can you...
If I can ask, i'm 16 year old and i've been pretty much a dream to go on backapacking trips when i turn 18, How much did you have in term of money for your year backpacking? Was it difficult to find places to sleep how was it? what was your experience? i'm really curious to know how it was and if you enjoyed it ofc :)
How much did you save up to travel 20 countries? Last year I did 4 countries at once as I’m a budget traveler myself, but love to know how you managed 20.
@@petitqc9425 fr im 16 too and I was going to deadass ask all the same questions, I definatly would love to spend my twenties on the road and travel the world. Im still trying to figure out the logistics but ill make it happen somehow. I would love some incite if you can!
this is eerily similar to my situation and my plan later next year to backpack for a year (when i'll be 27 as well). thanks for sharing your experience, helps me temper my expectations and know what to expect :)
@@iammyslef12 Good luck on your trip! At the end of the day, it's best to have a general plan and then be open to the flow. No need to try and account for every scenario, you'll adapt as you go.
“Running away from them didn’t help. My problems were still there patiently waiting for me.” So real.
6 years disconnected from my past.
The best 6 years of my life.
what’s your story ?
@@Jinnsengsome things are never meant to be told, that’s the beauty of it, the idea of so many stories, so many tragedies and loves, millions upon millions, and we will only truly only know ours.
6 years? Man thats very big time span
God... I can kinda relate. After graduating from high school and enrolling and college and meeting a bunch of people that didn't knew me or have a mold for me. It was empowering, and freeing.
I traveled the road on my own for a month straight, From the Keys to Detroit. It was awesome.
You have no idea how I relate to this. I’m a freshman in college right now and this itch is just unbearable. I hate just sitting here and not being able to find myself, I need to do this and experience the world that’s out there, while I am still young and healthy, by gods grace.
fellow indian here mate! I feel what you feel. I just graduated this year and ik what you feel. I tried going to a random place by getting in a train into the Unreserved coach and got a ticket to the last stop. Just had 2 pairs of clothes, a tooth-brush, 3500 rupees & my mobile's charger. If you're south try north and vice versa to live through new experiences & new emotions. You'll meet new people and the society will eventually talk to you even if you don't initiate any convo (words coming from an introvert). At some point they'll get down the train and you remember that you forgot to ask their name. This blissful experience is something that you can experience if you travel alone to a place unknown and learn Life's lessons. Try this out mate! Cheers to your travel.
Same :( All I want to do is travel, and although college is important I think learning about yourself through adventure and experiencing new things is equally as important
Just finished my first semester of year 2, and the burnout is rough. I feel you.
I was in a degree path I had zero interest in, just doing it for the sake of saying I did. I made the decision to "drop out" of school (I say that in air quotes as I'm still with the university, but I'm in a different program that I won't be getting a degree from). I'll be in a new program next semester to get a certificate in a trades job. It might not sound like the most glamorous thing, but having that hard reset has made me the happiest I've been in a while.
Long story short, sometimes we've just got to stop, take a step back and just go a different way to find happiness.
I just don't click with college as a Sophmore, and have some money and just want to buy a nice little boat and just sail around the Carribean for a while. I don't think I will, but I think about it fondly and often. So maybe some day.
Are you kidding me? The extent of you 'finding yourself', will end in playing video games, or some other such nonsense. You will not do anything. If you had it in you to truly trek out and "find yourself", you would just do it. You're all talk.
Doing something like this is everything I want out of life. Just go - see the world. Live by its whims, on its schedule. I'm at a crossroads in my life right now. I lost my life partner. I feel empty. Nothing brings the joy it once did. But the road still calls to me. I'm 10 years from retirement. Should I get to the end of the career shaped road and enjoy the spoils then, or do I take a page from this video and just - go; live in the moment? Decisions, decisions. Beautiful video by the way!
no one knows the right answers ... we all just make the best decisions we can. good luck with yours.
If you feel like it go for it, perhaps you'll find a new meaning.
Do it
Planning it means it will never happen. Just up and go. That's if you didn't already up and left.
@@Armeanu91 I've been balancing a life between the two - work and pleasure. If it was just me I'd go, but when my partner left, she left more than just me. I have mouths to feed, and children to love.
"It's by getting lost that you find your way".
That is what I learnt with my very first trip all by myself, just like you did, bud. I was running away from a feeling of uselessness and going to a dead end. But it helped me overcome the problems.
I encourage each and every one of you all to experience it at least once in your lifetime.
Peace ! ✌️
I've spent about the last 8 years doing a similar thing, wasting time in my room on video games and only really leaving for food and work. Lost jobs, lost relationships, lost what feels like everything.
I've just bought my first motorcycle, 86 Honda that needs a little work, but when she's done I'm taking a trip and we'll see what I can figure out for myself.
Thanks for making this video
I've done something similar but with a Volvo from 1983. If you manage to take it on a good trip, believe me: you'll always relive the moments of that trip.
@@martij30 If this bike doesn't do it I plan on buying a RE 650 and doing it on that
@@TheWhoamaters Ah.... Amazing taste. I am looking into the Shotgun650, looks like a great all-round bike for street use.
@@martij30 I've never been big on cruisers myself though it does look good. I'm more interested in the Bear, scramblers just look sweet
@@TheWhoamaters Rode a Classic 500 across India with my mate, best time I ever had.
I've been traveling solo since 2020. I was scared at first, faith helped a lot. Within a year I was used to my own country, Im still getting used to everywhere else
How do you make money?
@ I teach ESL online, however I’ll be switching to IT after I finish a few certs. I still want to teach on the side though.
How did you deal with covid whilst travelling?
The more i watch your videos, the more I feel I can see some insight into your own life. From what I can tell, you are a beautiful person. Who am sure has flaws, but in of the day, you understand life is a gift that you are not willing to just let slip by.
True satisfaction takes years and decades. Failing shows were we need to improve, its a necessary feeling growing up. Nothing to be afraid or ashamed of.
"Life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop, and look around once in a while, you might miss it."
I felt that.
"you'd be a nobody. no expectations, no judgement. so, instead of acting how people expect you to be, you act how you really feel with complete agency and without feeling guilty for not trying hard enough." this is exactly what i have thought for years. that, if i just packed my bags and moved to a completely different country, where no one knew me, i could finally be myself. i could finally live my life the way i want to, without feeling like i'll be judged by people around me. thats exactly why im scared to change how i live, despite how much i hate myself and my life. im afraid of what people around me will think. maybe one day i'll finally be able to escape all this, and finally be able to move somewhere else. but that sure as hell wont be any time soon.
3 months ago I left my job and family to live out my car and travel the country for a while. I can definitely say this has already been such an amazing and life changing experience and it’s not even over yet
Man! Reminded me of the amazing feelings I had doing this same kind of trip last September. It was only a week long, waking up in the morning, driving a bit, finding a rural spot, be it a lake, river, big tree - whatever looked interesing - hanging out, meeting local folks... but what an absolute blast. I don't exactly know what was so special about it, but I can't wait going on the road again!
Sometimes you get so stressed that you just have to go. On a whim I drove from NY To Colorado. It took me 3 days of driving. I met up with a family member and her neighbor taught me how to do interior painting to make some cash for my stay. I met a girl out there as well. Experience is everything
Having done something similar last year I feel very much the same way.
Having never really traveled but always dreamt of going to Japan and to go backpacking I booked a ticket and skipped Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka to go straight to Shikoku to walk the Shikoku 88 pilgrimage. Never have I ever met kinder and more amazing people, or been happier and felt so much at peace for the months I spent just walking and exploring.
It's not for everyone, but never let fear of being alone hold you back from realizing your dreams. If no one will come with you, you will make new friends on the road.
i dont know what it is about the videos from this channel, but i feel so alive watching them
Up until now, I'm still having bouts of depression and sometimes it can swallow you whole. One thing that relaxes me is solo motorcycle rides. No destination, just cruising for a whole day, stopping by to eat street food, and taking some pictures. Sometimes it's just a few kilometers, but every now and then it becomes cross-country. That feeling of the wind on your face and that sense of solitude wherein you don't have to think much, just you and the road, man, it feels great.
After watching the end I m immense and packing my tourbag for a trip thanks owl
Go for it!
that last line from Tennyson fit very well, Kudos
glad that someone caught it ;)
i did this. left most of my belongings behind, packed what i could into my truck, and just drove. saw the whole country which was awesome. was misjudged as a criminal a few times which was not awesome. want to do it again, but next time with a better setup haha.
I drove from Ky to Seattle alone in my truck and stopped at every national park along the way. I recommend everyone do it at least once. I found who I really was and became comfortable with the solitude and eventually love the feeling of being completely alone.
Travelling by myself in France for the summer really needed to see this merci beacoup
God! The animation the writing the ambience everything is just a masterpiece and so relaxing!and this story/video is so good! This gives me goosebumps and made my eyes tear up a bit. Finally the nostalgia-like feeling that I never got?... Thanks for this channel😌
Man I love your vids, they got something that make u feel relatable and real, thanks for making them...
Nothing worse than friends pulling out on plans but to be fair it has led to some of the greatest memories of my life by just going solo
This is what I’ve spent my life saving for, there’s some things that keep me from traveling at the moment but when those responsibilities are completed I will backpack to my hearts content everywhere.
My friend, I did the same thing from Massachusetts to Florida. I made plans with my friends to go there but nobody came. So I had to decide. You reminded me to try another long road on june lol.
I remember when I was 21, visited EU and thought "yeah, I will have a tons of travel and exploration in the future". Then boom, few study years, CoVid, war, and I'm near the 30, full time job, another study year, burnouts, zero money, happy in some things, but I feel I lost my moment, my time to explore the world freely without thinking about anything.
I think I will have a travels later, but you know, like an elder persons do, with family, booking a good hotels at the sea resort or cruise liners. Yeah, it's cool, but I feel I lost a chance for a wild adventures with a bike and myself or hitch-hiking Siberia or Middle-East exploring the things casual tourists would never see. It feel hard sometimes
Thank you for the video, man. This found me at a good/bad time in my life, and is reminding me that problems are just that - problems, daunting but always with an answer. I’m scared of the world and my place in it, but you know what? I think I’m ready. I’m ready to take the plunge.
Dude you saying those words at the end was so trippy, my high schools motto was "to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield" crazy ahaha
Wow, I usually dont commnet youtube but this video hit me hard. Been a hikikomori and hated socializing. I decided to solo traveled and traveled more than 15 countries. I do not regret it at all. The best part was meeting super awsome travelers telling story that I will never forgets.
I’ve been sick to death on a cross country train trip, truck broken down on a trail with no reception, sprained ankle on a backpacking trip, etc. solo travel is hard and sometimes sucks. But it is also, in my opinion, the most rewarding and liberating experience one can do.
3:02 FISH NIGHT REFERENCE WUOOOOO I LOVE YOU MAN
I'm about to embark on my first true solo trip to San Diego soon. I've been navigating post-grad life and processing a really difficult breakup for a while now. I stumbled upon this video by chance-maybe it's a sign or a blessing in disguise. Thank you for sharing your story and giving me the courage to go for it! I'll let you know how it goes when I get back. Just keep livin' ;)
Last year, I started to get out of the house more and even travel alone. I'm 30 and come from a family of mostly home bodies. This month ( January 2025 ) I'll be taken a trip to a cabin by a lake for two day's. I use to run away from my problems or feeling lonely. But by traveling I grew to appreciate and enjoy solitude. It's a six hour drive but I understand this now. I don't want to sit around wasting my life away anymore.
1:34 tf you mean horror movie, you're describing the perfect scenario man
I love this channel can’t wait for the next video
I did a similar trip. But I brought my bike back from the dead twice, because I wasn't finished yet. The third time it died I knew I was ready for the trip to end.
Reminded me of my solo trip to the roof of the world back in 2012. The trip didn't solve my problems, I had to do that myself, but at least I saw them for what they were... trivial in comparison to the world outside..
This was me last year. Ever since i got my first job in Highschool, I've always wanted to go to japan. But it was just a pipe dream. 12-13 yrs later which was last year, i decided to myself "fk it" im going to jp by myself. I worked my ass off for 6momths to save up lots for a 5 week trip to japan, and actually managed to meet new people, experience new things, met relatives and felt the freedom. Now im going again for the 2nd time in a few weeks with the new friends i met. Just like your video, it reminds me of it.
3 years ago i left my home and moverd to big city. It was difficult, i have problems with loans and health now. But it also helped me mature and be more open to people ant the world. Thank you for you story!
beautiful story honestly, the ambiance created with the art, the music is just really spectactular. good job
Thank you for sharing your story. It just reminded me of my younger version which I thought I lost my connection to - but apparently I didn't. Your video left a spark that gives me not only hope for the future, but enough energy to something to work on for.
Thanks
I'll have my first solo travelling experience starting on tuesday and I'm excited as hell
I'm anxious but I know it'll be good
First time solo travelling and it's the other side of the world ":D
I'm so grateful to be able to make this experience and I'm excited to make the most out of it and grow as a person 💙
I want to do this. I want to get my truck ready fix everything on it, new engine, new transmission, a betting intake system, a fresh paint job, and then I just go, pack everything into it and I just leave, go see things I haven’t seen, talk to people I’ve never known, and be free from it all. It’s be nice to be truly alone for a while nothing but me, the truck, and road.
I higly relate to that feeling too. I walked on the way to Saint Jacques de Compostela, from Paris, for 26 days. I walked +490km, all alone, and I felt so damn good since day one. I discovered the French country, walked through small villages, encountered a lot of generous people that I'm forever grateful for. Paradoxically, it was challenging yet extraordinary relaxing. Because I was walking and living at my pace, my own rythm that was mine and nobody can say a god damn thing about it!
The master of storytelling is right there.
Hats off to you in respect.
This video feels like it was made for me it was so helpful thanks
This was honestly amazing man keep it up
I'm a freshman in college and I relate to this video so much. I have a bucket, and one of the big ticket items of that bucket list is to visit all 63 national parks of the United States. I enjoy the fantasy of dropping everything I'm doing and using my meager savings to visit a park; but I have too many responsibilities to myself. Fear and anxiety weigh me down, the more I think about my dream of visiting every national park, the less capable it seems of coming to fruition.
There is a guy with a motorcycle in a music video called "Siames - the wolf". In the video there are three people who run away from the wolf and the wolf symbolizes their problems. One with the bike is runing from his depression and this video just reminds me of that.
Such a powerful message. Thanks for motivating me.
From a hostel in Hong Kong, I say solo travel is amazing, and I’m glad others are discovering this too!
The best channel ever recommend ✨
You say "10 year old" motorcycle like that's too old hahahaha. Amazing trip, mate glad you could make it
I laughed a bit at that too, I'm currently gearing up for a ride in 2026 on the day my daily turns 40.
I've been riding since 1978 and I don't think this trip would have had the same effect if you're friends had joined you. It would still have been a great trip but in a very, very different way. Bike trips with friends are fun but solo trips are fulfilling.
This this is what I felt when I was so done in life that I've decided or a 2 week trip to Japan. And boy, was that feeling great.
Bro this is just heartwarming I love it
Never knew I would find this channel and I'm glad I did. I have the same feeling of wanting to get away but for me it's about starting somewhere new and meeting new people.
One of the most meaningful things I ever did for myself was a solo ride across the country reconnecting w friends I hadn't seen in years and even some since high school. I was 36 and did the full trip in 21 days. SF Bay Area to Salt Lake City, Chicago, Portland Maine, Boston, Philly, did the entire Blue Ridge Parkway (the parts that were open), Asheville NC, Knoxville, DFW, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and then up 1 the rest of the way back to the bay. All told just shy of 8,000 miles by myself.
Going to do it again this year, but different cities and different friends. I'm in my early 40s now and want to do it again while my body can still handle it.
Y'all, if you ever have the chance and a bike that will not blow up on you, do it. It is life changing.
Those truck stop naps are friggin real. The number of times where I'd lean my backpack against a brick wall and give myself a 15m 'trucker nap' (as my Dad suggested, who was a trucker)
Beautiful video. Beautiful channel. I'm glad I found this
I’ve had many holidays on my own recently, as I’m divorced, & my sons are grown and have their own lives, also my friends are scattered all over the country now and so getting together is getting more difficult, so instead of waiting around for people to organise a trip with me, I decided to get out and travel, you get to meet people and also it’s nice to just spend time on my own, it’s not a new thing for me as I traveled to Australia on my own when I was in my early twenties, don’t wait for other people to have adventures with make them on your own.
I feel this. Last year when the union was on strike i always wanted to take a motorcycle trip so decided to just do it. With no plan i road from up by the Canadian border in wa all the way down to the bay area and back along the 101. It was only a week but man what an adventure. I have never felt so free in all my life
Man I love this channel
Dude this is awesome, great animation, great narration. I had a similar experience, took a gap year, plans fell through, so gaming became the day to day. I realized months later that simply passing the time was not something I wanted. I thought I did in school, oh to have all the free time in the world, but it’s worse than many think.
I did a roadtrip! From CO to NC and finished in California. I never thought to see that feeling of running away that way. How you said that it didn’t solve them (I saw that part), but how you learned that in all these other places, no one knows you, you’re almost an alien taking a tour in a little space ship, at least I felt that way lol.
Thanks man, I honestly struggled to reflect on why I did that roadtrip, and if I was just running away, I derived more meaning after seeing your perspective
Maybe, I'm so tired of chasing things that I don't want, because of the pressures of society. That, sometimes i just wanna leave everything and go somewhere. I live in a city filled with mountains and I feel their calling everyday. I just don't know how to leave. Maybe, I don't have that courage to just go, not thinking about where this road will lead, but I hate every living moment here, always wishing to be free. Neither parents nor friends understands what I want. Everybody have solutions, but nobody wants to listen. Everybody close to me is so busy chasing things and fitting in the society that they don't accept or respect my want of freedom.
Fight / Flight type of childhood trauma response. Go for it! Other kids who quit probably had a happier childhood, but you live your life.
YOU ARE THE REAL MAN! I feel same like you on my last trip alone and good to know exist someone like me there!
We need more of your videos . Thank you so inspiring, makes me realize alot of things 💙
Love your stories and animation. Keep it up.
I'm turning 18 at the beginning of next year and I'm really thinking about taking a month or at least a half to go hitchhiking to the south of Russia next summer. I don't expect it to be a peaceful healing paradise, I had some experience this year and it wasn't so great, but I just feel that it is what I need
Nice job Chris McCandless. you stuck with it and reaped more rewards than you thought you could.
just one word, amazing 💟
I would so love to take a solo journey somewhere. This video hit me right in my wanderlust filled heart. Problems be damned I wanna leave.
TRUTH! I had a similar experience and it was one of the best things I ever did!
I love this channel so much
In my junior year of college I had been mugged and robbed. Never caught the people who did it. The rest of my semester I was depressed and I barely left the house except for classes. When summer came by, I said fuck it and booked a solo trip through South America. Not the safest travel idea but I had such an amazing time and met people I still talk to today. I’ve done a few other solo trips and am planning one for Europe this spring. Solo trips are a beautiful experience.
This was beautiful to watch, thank you so much.
Lovely video, deserves more views. Although a little misleading. The title could have simply been "Wanderlust". Leaving everything behind and disappear sounds more like transitioning into a whole different life somewhere else.
I am 39 already and pretty broke. But I hope I can achieve my future goals - living in an RV and going anywhere I want at any moment, not being limited to a single period of time. I already am self employed, working over the internet, so I don't need a stationary place. But the ideal situation would be, if I could live off of my passion, a fully animated show I am working on.
In any case, I can't put myself into the perspective of fully stationary people - those people, who get born somewhere, never really leave this place, live their entire life within like 5 miles of their birth place and die there at some point, especially when it's some tiny place, where NOTHING ever happens. I always need change in life, moving towns every couple years. With an RV, I could have change by the day. Always seeing new and unknown places keeps driving my creativity. Sitting in the same apartment every day kills it on the other hand.
Hello brother can I know what software he used for making such animations?
@@prakharmishra4198 i'm not sure which software he used but I saw a Blender logo on one of his animations' character
@@HonorLone thanks brother .helps a lot
@@prakharmishra4198 no problem your welcome bro
@@prakharmishra4198 i checked again the comment, seems i didn't read your question well, I thought you are asking it from @mark_fuchs_1985 (because he made animations too), but seems you referee this channel animations.
Im sorry for misunderstanding bro i dont know about this anims, hope you find it
It’s early on the morning and the algorithm shows this beautiful heartwarming piece of art. ❤ty that’s so helpful ❤
This video gained you a subscriber. Thanks for sharing your experience!
Bro u get me chills ❤️✨
LAST SUMER REFERENCE? LOVE IT!!!!!
To leave it all behind, to drift with the breeze,
Is to find your soul in the whispers of trees.
The road may be long, the journey unknown,
But in nature's arms, you're never alone.
A heart unburdened, a spirit set free,
Is where true peace in the wild will be.
U know what I solo traveled to south of newsealand just 2 months after wa5ching this video. I just couldn't believe it.best thing I ever done in my life.Thanks lazy owl.just amazing.
There's always some catch in every journey. It wont solve any problem, but you'll get anything else. Either joy, solitude fear(which often overwhelming). Been always solo travel. With no plans except the destination. Sleep in front of closed shop. In front of church and mosque. Wondering will i see tomorow or still can continue. Hope i can do it again in the future.
I can't explain it but this has the same plot energy that an indie game has
It's really great stuff thank you
loved this so much, hope one day i will solo travel like that for a bit
I will do this one day. I keep telling myself I will! I will do this!
I feel exactly the same with long bicycle trips, or camping, just being umconfortable make simple things tastes better
Beautiful ain't a strong enough word to describe this video and message
One of the coolest stories I've ever heard. Ride On !
I'd like to thank you for the video, LazyOwl.
It reminded me of appreciating the little things and helped me connect to myself more.
To feel at peace. 🌱☀️
- Best regards, M.
Some times you need to take your head out of the water, deep breath, oxygen your brain and your soul. we get overwhelmed and usually nobody ever taught you how to deal with this, how it feels, how to solve it.
I like the analogy of the tree and the forest, some times where are so focus in the sorrounding trees that we can't see the forest! Then you understand you were running in circles; not finding the directions, no finding the help, not looking the tools infront of you.
I liked your video, I was expecting a different content when was suggested by the algorithm (I watch a lot of traveling videos), but were a valuable 5min 30secs. Thanks for that.