Lydia & Chris | The Roving Balys
🇦🇺Midlife 50+ empty nest travel from Newcastle, Australia
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🎥 Watch on YT | ✍️ Free itineraries on the blog: It is what distracted us from what was going on in the real world and gave us hope that we could all travel once again. To be honest, it reminded us of
what we were like when we were younger. I said to Chris, that if I had my time again and vlogging was available to us when we were younger and travelling, we would have jumped on the bandwagon too. We continued to travel with our children and to raise enough funds to do so we either had a side gig of selling DVDs to second-hand clothes on eBay, then renting out our house. We did what we could to get some extra dollars and to save enough flyer miles to take the family away as often as we could. We are avid Disney fans and have taken the kids to Disneylands in LA, Florida, Tokyo, and Paris. Our inner child is alive and well. Now that our children are 20 and 22 and starting to live their own lives, it has given us time to ponder what is next for us. Rather than sulking at our empty nest situation, we have decided to distract ourselves by planning our next few holidays. We then had an epiphany, why wait? You are never too old to follow your dreams! I mentioned to Chris how good would it be if our favorite travel vloggers put a course out on how to vlog? I kid you not, the very next week they published such a course! We decided that our New Year's resolution was going to start Vlogging our travels and bringing the fun back into our lives. If no one else watched the videos apart from us, our kids can have a giggle and say how silly their parents are and we can sit back and rewatch the episodes when we are in our rocking chairs in a retirement home wondering what we did yesterday. We all get one shot at this thing called life and rather than follow the lemmings and wait until retirement, we say why wait? Let’s pave a new road forward, follow our passion, and live every day as if it were our last. Forever in gratitude
The newly named “ The Roving Balys”
