I am Leaving for an Around the World Backpacking Trip
Posted on March 08, 2010 at 02:08 PM
I have left my full-time position at Hoodiny Entertainment Group to pursue new horizons. The wife and I will take a couple months off work to travel the world. After working nonstop for the last 10 years of our lives we are in desperate need of a mini retirement.
Photo by: ccdoh1 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ccdoh1/400731487/
We started entertaining this idea quite a while back and have taken all the necessary steps to make this happen. We sold our condo, we got rid of our cars. We have now freed ourselves of most material possessions in the interest of practicality and portability. I can’t express how great of a feeling that is. The ability to fit all that you own in a backpack and travel the world searching for new experiences.
I will continue to run my company Bopia albeit I’ll be slightly less involved. I am really glad to be able to leave it in the hands of extremely talented people that work with me in this venture. I am sad to be leaving a talented team at Hoodiny (I may continue to advise). They are in route to success and know that they will continue to make strides in the right direction.
With extremely few material possessions and no kids to attend to we are free to roam the earth. Our plans are somewhat vague as to where and for how long we will be gone. I will have a camera and a laptop with me and will be blogging most of my experiences my new travel blog TravelingShorts.com.
I am keeping an extremely open mind about the whole process. I am not sure how much or how little work I will be doing, I may write a couple web apps, pick grapes vineyard in the south of France, or teach english in Thailand. That’s the beauty. I don’t know, I don’t have to know, and that feels great.
This blog will likely be seldomly updated in favor of TravelingShorts.com yet I will keep it live. The travel blog will include pictures, latest tweets from @brupm and reflections from the road. You will also be able to contact me as you wish, all my latest contact info will always be on BrunoMiranda.com.
Someone asked me yesterday what I plan on doing when I get back. I honestly don’t know. I have been developing and designing software and web applications for most of my life. I want to perhaps be more involved with the business side of things. I am not sure exactly what kind of business. I am open to suggestions, so if you have any interesting ventures, please do contact me.
If you’d like to find out more and stay current with our journey, subscribe to the TravelingShort’s RSS feed. I will be posting where we plan to go/start soon.
I may still occasionally post here while away about non travel related topics.
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Go ahead Bruno! Hope to see u in Meia Praia :)
Good luck partner!
Good luck buddy! I hope you enjoy the experience a lot!
I’m waiting your visit here too!
Wow, awesome. Have fun, be safe and take lots of pics.
P.S - Travelingshorts.com url is broken, it’s missing an “r”
Thank you! I am super excited.
Nick: fixed, thank you.
What a great adventure! Be safe and have a great time man!
Good luck and good adventure. Congratulations on moving to this new SUPER BIG house.
Can I have your iMac? :)
Pete: sure, I’ll send you an invoice :) Actually paula already sold it.
Your doing what most of us only dream of. Looking forward to your updates. It was great working with you. I’m sure whatever direction your life takes you will be very successful at it.
Good Luck and be safe!
Stay gold, Ponyboy…Stay gold…
I hope you and your wife really enjoy this trip, I’d liketo do the same some day, at least 1 or 2 months of travel.
It is just a pity to lose a great coworker like you, but we should wish the best for our friends and is it what I wish for you.
I hope to hear many stories about your adventures around the world and hope this experience brings you good opportunities in your life.
Good luck buddy!!!
Hey dude! Really, really nice! I wish you the best during this trip. If you happen to come to Brazil, don’t forget to visit Aracaju again. You guys will be welcome here!
It seems like a great adventure, one that I want to take myself, maybe even next year or so.
Have a great time, enjoy it. Can’t wait to hear the stories about your trip!
See you around, mate!
Wow mate! That’s sounds great!
Good luck on you journey and enjoy every single day of the different places, people you’ll be visiting.
Cheers
Thank you for all the support. I will be more than happy to stop by and grab a beer.
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