OK so I've got some money saved and my work contract ends before the new year, so I'll be unemployed by 2011. My plan was to fly to the USA, buy a cheap bike and tour for a few months, stealth camping along the way and living cheap. When I ran out of cash I'd sell the bike and head for home.

My dilemma is whether I should continue with this plan or use the money I have saved to buy the bike I really love, get another job, save some more money and do a more ambitious adventure next year - RTW perhaps? I might even be able to do a bit of touring more locally around the UK and Europe to quench my thirst until then.

I've been a mature student for 5 years with the last 18 months just working a poorly paid dead end office job whilst finishing off my post grad studies and saving for the aforementioned trip. I'm not yet on the career ladder and I've had a change of career interests but I do want to crack on with life and get a proper job. Trouble is I really don't know what I want to do anymore... I do have interests and options but they'll all entail a commitment.

All I do know is that I want to ride and that my impending unemployment is a good opportunity to get out there and travel. However, the idea of getting my dream bike, possibly taking a short burst through Europe, coupled with the dream of a more ambitious adventure next year is too tempting to pass up.

I need a break to recharge my batteries and figure out my future but I am patient and I can wait another year if I must. And I realise I don't have to do it all right now but life is too short for dress rehearsals and waiting in a cubical for my chance to live. Indeed, its the only life we get so I want to fill it with living now.

The career can wait and I'm not bothered about trotting off and returning with nothing, I'll be enriched from the experience I'm sure. I guess the choice is whether to take the adventure now or wait and have a bigger one in a years time. I'm very tempted to just get on the bike I have and just ride east until I can ride no further or until I run out of money?

I'm conflicted... what are your thoughts?

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