>>1200618Why not? At best, you'll have an amazing life of adventure and living in the mystery.
At worse, you come back defeated, but with purpose renewed. Suddenly, your shitty lifestyle of 9 to 5 makes sense: it's not actually shitty, now, because the choice has been made by you; not people who love you yet are also afraid of the elements.
Backpacking french-canuckfag here. I make plans, but I also allow reality to surprise me with events that turn out better than whatever I had planned. I know generally where id like to go this summer, but the most important thing is that I need experience.
I left last year, worked full time in a hotel for about 10 months, then came back right home quebec. This time id like to go even deeper than the rockies and actually visit this wonderful BC land that ive been hearing about!
The longer I wait, the harder it becomes. This sedentary lifestyle is killing me softly.
Since you have a van, you have place to hide in case the bears find you lol. Me, I think id like to go full-druid, so that the bear would become my locomotion :p