I'm a little nervous honestly because you know the America road trip how works right? You decide to embark on a big project or change something in your life and you tell all of your friends and family. You announce it to them and because they're watching, your project becomes a lot more real, and your commitment becomes a lot more real.
So let's go. I'm ava and I'm a full-time adventurer. I'm on top of the mountain and there's a view of the sea I'm so lucky every day I wake up and I'm like how did I get here I'm so freaking lucky but I've had a few insights along the way that are encouraging me to change the way I travel and the way I live and here's why the travel niche on youtube is a very interesting little world in the travel niche there's so much pressure to be continuously traveling consistently weekly putting out great content from completely different parts of the world you're expected to be hopping on planes from one continent to the next on at least a monthly basis to share diverse stories from different parts of our planet of different cultures and different tribes and different communities every time something new and something different and something exciting.
and guess what it's unsustainable I've had this battle going on in my mind over the last year since I started Overlanding living and creating with odyssey my truck because I've seen that some of you have commented saying that I now no longer give you these beautiful diverse human stories from all around the world and you know what it's true I get it because I don't do that anymore and I don't do that because four years of doing exactly that have left me feeling really drained on the verge of burnout because it takes a lot a lot of mental energy to try and tell people stories always something new thing exciting weekend and week out I don't think it's possible for me to continue in this way.
because my mental health has been suffering and I've come to realize that I cannot tell these stories deeply enough if I'm just spending a few days living with someone or learning about someone's culture it's not possible so the only story that I can tell really well is my own the story of my own journey that is the only story that I can tell authentically and the only thing that really truly matters is my state of mind if I'm doing something that I love like traveling the world and yet it leaves me feeling bent out because I'm doing it too quickly too intensely what's the point do you know I just want to like take my time so that's what I'm doing to see what it means to be a human living in such a massive world that feels so right to me.
you know I don't want my journey to be choppy and divided by oceans and plane rides I want it to be continuous I want to see how I can grow to create within one very long continuous journey and I'm sure it's going to teach me some patience which is something I solely need okay so my solution to all of this to do the thing I've been dreaming of doing a really massive journey even if that means pivoting on this channel even if that means that some of you will not stick around even if that means risking two years of my life to do a project that I don't know if it will succeed or not I don't know if people will like it or not I just I don't know but I feel like I have to do it for me for myself you know for my own journey.
so let me introduce you to expedition wild I will spend the next two years of my life driving down the longest motorable road in the entire world the pan-American highway yes I'll be all alone and yes I'll be driving in my land river defender odyssey But, to be honest, that's a low estimate; I'd say 30 000 miles or 47 000 kilometers is a better bet. ~Eva Zu Beck
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