skydiver88 0 #1 February 6, 2008 just got up and left. left where you lived where you are right now went and did something crazy im not talking about drinking/partying/etc... im talking about you leaving and going to another country... you leaving the state and doing something... something absolutely CRAZY... just wondering thanks(and please be somewhat serious) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shermanator 4 #2 February 6, 2008 I've thought about it before.. well, moving to a different state, but i can't do it. I still want to, but can't manage to do it.. Having zero savings doesn't help either.CLICK HERE! new blog posted 9/21/08 CSA #720 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lindsey 0 #3 February 6, 2008 I have. It was a LOOOOONG time ago. Was living in Conway, AR one morning. No intention of moving. Next day lived in Florida. That was 24 years ago. YIKES!-- A conservative is just a liberal who's been mugged. A liberal is just a conservative who's been to jail Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
guppie01 0 #4 February 6, 2008 Quote just got up and left. left where you lived where you are right now went and did something crazy im not talking about drinking/partying/etc... im talking about you leaving and going to another country... you leaving the state and doing something... something absolutely CRAZY... just wondering thanks(and please be somewhat serious) If Romney wins the presidential election, I'm up and moving and changing my citizenship! g"Let's do something romantic this Saturday... how bout we bust out the restraints?" Raddest Ho this side of Jersey #1 - MISS YOU OMG, is she okay? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jewels 0 #5 February 6, 2008 Leslieb posts on here once in a while, and she's doing the great travel experience. She packed up, rented out her place, and last I heard was somewhere in Australia. She may have moved on by now, but good for her! Not everyone makes that break and just turns everything inside out.TPM Sister #102 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IanHarrop 42 #6 February 6, 2008 Back in 1983 I left Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and moved to Calgary, Alberta. About 400 miles. Left the company I had worked hard to build and was part owner of, had no friends here, but I had lined up a job. I was the ripe old age of 27. Does that count?"Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
diablopilot 2 #7 February 6, 2008 Yep. More than once in my life. Doing it again.---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
guppie01 0 #8 February 6, 2008 QuoteYep. More than once in my life. Doing it again. Where ya goin now JP???? edited n when... Steve just got his PPL BFR and we were looking forward to flying up to see you! g"Let's do something romantic this Saturday... how bout we bust out the restraints?" Raddest Ho this side of Jersey #1 - MISS YOU OMG, is she okay? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrewwhyte 1 #9 February 6, 2008 When i was 17, just out of school I picked the university (in the country) the furthest I could think of and went there. It was 400 miles away. A few years later I hitch hiked up to Yukon for the summer; stayed for ten years. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
selbbub78 0 #10 February 6, 2008 I left a good company in NJ at the end of 2006 to go to a random new state 4,000 miles away... CReW Skies, bubbles (oh ya... best decision ever... well kinda)"Women fake orgasms - men fake whole relationships" – Sharon Stone "The world is my dropzone" (wise crewdog quote) "The light dims, until full darkness pierces into the world."-KDM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnealtx 0 #11 February 6, 2008 Quote If Romney wins the presidential election, I'm up and moving and changing my citizenship! g I'm already good if Hillary wins... just so long as the contract holds out, anyway!! All my moves have been work-related...Mike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
diablopilot 2 #12 February 6, 2008 Not going anywhere, just changing paths, this will be a slower journey but fun as all heck... ---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kell.nl 0 #13 February 6, 2008 I moved from the Netherlands to the US almost 2 years ago. Although it wasn't getting up one day and moving the next day, since there was visa stuff involved and such, I did not have to think for long when I got the job offer. I gave almost all my stuff away in the Netherlands (made quite some people happy, since I was/am a nerd, and I had way too many computers ). The stuff I couldn't give away, I threw away and I ended up with moving here with only two suitcases full of stuff. And one of them was almost only filled with DVD's That was also when I was the most scared I ever been. Imagine having all your stuff in 2 suitcases, checked in at the airport, having an eight hour delay on the first flight, which means staying in a hotel, with all your belongings staying on the airport overnight, only to find out the next day that the transport band at the final destination was completely unprotected (people can just walk into the airport and pick something from the transport band). But luckily they arrived safely. I've never been so happy to see two plain, grey suitcases Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #14 February 6, 2008 Quote...im talking about you leaving and going to another country... That's exactly what I did. When I got out of the Army, 2 months later, I packed a duffel bag, threw my guitar over my shoulder and went to Europe as a professional tourist for a year. One of the two best years of my life.My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
futuredivot 0 #15 February 6, 2008 I packed a duffle and hit the road out of high school. Day labored around. Seeing the country is cool, seeing it piss-broke is less coolYou are only as strong as the prey you devour Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mayberry 0 #16 February 6, 2008 Back in my early 20's I hated my life & needed a good kick in the butt so I joined the Army. Got sent to Germany & did a lot of traveling throughout Europe while I was there. One of the best things I ever did. Don Here's to friends! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wmw999 2,555 #17 February 6, 2008 I quit my job and moved 1800 miles away a fairly large number of years ago. Left everyone and everything; ended up working for a dropzone as a rigger. I stayed until the season was over, then went to Florida for the winter jumping, and then came back home. It was a fabulous adventure that I don't regret for a second. I'm very glad I did that. Pieces of me have wondered since then if I should have stayed. Wendy W.There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
karenmeal 0 #18 February 6, 2008 Yeah.. I've done it maybe 4 or 5 times. Dropped out of school and packed up my car and moved across country without real plans (or a place to live besides the hangar). When my boyfriend broke up with me, within half an hour I had decided to move to Australia for the winter. That sort of thing. Now I've been in the same area for almost 5 years and am getting SOOOOO antsy to move again!! "Life is a temporary victory over the causes which induce death." - Sylvester Graham Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kbordson 8 #19 February 6, 2008 Thought about it. It takes some courage. All of my moves have been planed and controlled - either by the military or by the military minded. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kschilk 0 #20 February 6, 2008 Well....kinda' sorta', I suppose. I met a woman on the internet, from St. Petersburg and we became interested in each other. I'm in PA so I figured....no biggie, Florida ain't so far. Ooops! Having never physically met her, I took off for Russia, with an engagement ring in my pocket. A couple months later, I gave myself a leave of absence (self-employed) and went back for the summer, to get married and do some jumping. I'm just a regular Joe and she isn't royalty or anything but we were married in a huge marble palace, on the banks of the Neva...that was pretty cool. It'll be 8 great years, in June. "T'was ever thus." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LisaM 0 #21 February 6, 2008 I did. It was a combination of things. Fake friends. Too much family taking up skydiving time and when I did get to jump, it just never seemed the weather would cooperate. And I never really found the right people to jump with. Then we had this horrific snow storm of which I spent a ton of time unburying my car only to have the dumb snow plow bury me back in again. I had had it. So I told my boyfriend of the time (Today looking back; I'm sure he was thrilled) "see ya". I told my family "It's just for a couple of years; something different. I'll be back, honest," I quit my job, put my stuff in storage and moved 1400 miles away and moved in with an old friend's mom while i job hunted. Within a few months I was employed and manifesting at a great dropzone and had my own place again. That was in 1999 (I was 25) and I only go back to visit. I found my husband and the rest is history. We talk about moving up there but the cold keeps us here. It was the best thing I ever did and I really can't tell you that I put a lot of thought into it. I didn't take time to save up money or nothing. ~ Lisa ~ Do you Rigminder? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bigway 4 #22 February 6, 2008 Alright..... I was out partying for like every night for a year. I lived for the nights. One day i went to see my mates down the line and we went out every night for about a week just drinking hundreds every night in booze. They lived behind this bar on the beach and i told my mate to go get the clippers and shave my head on the bar. They had shaved heads for years. Got my very long hair shaved off and woke up in a police cell. As I woke up i thought, oh fuck, as i relaised i was in the cells. Then i went to push my hair back and went 'oh fuck' again. In the cells and have my head shaved. Went to court the next day, got out and went straight to a chemist and got my passport photos taken. Went and applied for my british passport and hung in that city for a week or two in a motel waiting for it to get there. When it arrived i got on a bus phoned my mum and asked her to meet me in my home town. I saw her for about 5 minutes and told her i am out of here. I then got her to drop me at the airport and bought a ticket for Thailand. I left 3 hours later on a ticket. After 2 weeks of not having the courage back then to eat meat i was craving meat, just not from thailand... I went and bought a ticket to london so i could go and have some mcdonalds. Once in london had my maccas and then that was where i stopped p[artying and started traveling around the uk, usa and europe. 5 years on and i am now in another country living with my partner of 5 years in her home country. I should add before this bout of adventure i had previously left hom to fly to OZ to meet my birth mother for 9 months and after that i had also shifted to live in denmark with my girlfriend at the time. I have been travelling for about 10 years and lovng it but to be honest i would find it very hard to do it again as i am very worn out from being in a different country every year. I love it here in Sydney and have bought a house, got some dogs, got some debt, a fancy car and a house full of furniture. I have roots here now and love it. MY little sister is on her way to do the same shortly as is my little brother. The downside to all of this though is i have not seen my bro or sis or dad in about 8 years and i only saw my mother for about 5 minutes ago a few years ago. I do however speak to my family every other day and am very close to them, I just have not seen them and to be honest, i have no fucking clue how my little sister and brother who were 16 last time i saw them, i have no idea how they look now at the age of 24. I think i am scared to see what they look like as it would break my heart and it has now been so long that i think i am scared to see my family again or enter their home. .Karnage Krew Gear Store . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Darius11 12 #23 February 6, 2008 I have done that a few times. The first 2 I was not an adult so it was not up to me. The last two were my decisions. Left Iran in 99 with 1000 bucks and a suitcase, then 3-4 years ago moved from NY to RI with work. It is not to hard for me because I have moved back and forth many times so I don’t really have deep roots anywhere. I think it might be harder if you have lived in the same place for the last 20 years or so. I think the longest I have been in the same place is 6 years from when I was born. So i don't really ever get home sick. There are some difficulties with moving all the time, but I am thinking about it again. For me it was worth it. Good luckI'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not." - Kurt Cobain Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DangerRoo 0 #24 February 6, 2008 I'm always doing something crazy, spur of the moment can be fun! (I.C.D#2 VP) ""I'm good with my purple penis straw" ~sky mama Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NWFlyer 2 #25 February 6, 2008 Never without a plan. I did move all the way to Seattle without really knowing anyone out here (couple friends, but I really did have to build a new life out here), but I did have a job lined up and relo costs paid for by my new employer."There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
