Getting ready to leave Holland

10 days left…

With the Dutch flag and 16 years in Holland behind me, new adventures are about to begin! September 1st I sold my beloved chiropractic clinic. Also I sold most of my furniture. It was not an easy decision to leave Holland and only time will show if was the right one. I am leaving behind a lot of what I built up in Wassenaar the past 10 years. Friendships and experience will last but everything else I leave behind. However my soul has been restless for a while and I am longing for new adventures; the dormant globe trotter in me wants to be awakened.

Some people say I am courageous; others probably think it is midlife crisis. All I know is I have to make this step at this point in life to find a place I want to settle. But first I will travel to Fiji, Australia, New Zealand and Bali while enjoying the freedom of not having any obligations. I will take a well-deserved six months break.

It is a big step and I sometimes feel I am about to jump off a cliff blindfolded. But I am not blindfolded and this whole process is thought through many times. I will jump, spread out my wings and let the wind carry me. But contrary to my trip in 1982 when I bought a one-way ticket to India with little direction in life, I now have a few more years of experience and hopefully I will find direction as I go.