onerideaway
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Leaving, just leaving without knowing when to come back, making our dream come true and taking the time to do what we love.
Who are we ?
We, Chloé and Sevan, are two lovers, two athletes, two adventurers who live life to the fullest. It all started with a weekly routine: every weekend, we packed our mountain gear and headed out in the van for the weekend. We quickly grew to love this simplicity, this minimalism, this freedom. Until the day...
"Honey, what if we went on a trip around the world?"
From that day on, that dream became a reality. We bought a new, larger van to store the equipment that would allow us to pursue our sporting passions. We spent five months converting it with the specific idea of taking a long trip.
Today: 4 years and 33 countries visited.
We are not finished yet, because the world is vast and has not finished surprising us.
Our goal:
Living through our sporting passions. Whenever we have the opportunity, we take out our gear: mountain biking, climbing, skiing, kitesurfing, etc. We immerse ourselves in different cultures, we give our time, we learn new traditions, and we enjoy spending time with the local people.
One piece of advice:
If you too would like to go and discover certain regions of the world, go for it, face your fears, live fully and simply.
Sevan
Small, when I went up to the boarding school by bus, seeing these holds, a desire to fit out a bus and to be able to fill it with sports equipment came to mind.
20 years later, nothing has changed. Now I'm setting up a first VW transporter van (to warm up), this first one was a bit limited to put all the sports equipment I could dream of.
After seducing Chloe with the idea of going on a trip around the world with a bigger van and our sports stuff totally seduces her. That's when I get out my pencil, my paper and I scribble plans for our new house on wheels. Almost 5 months later, we finally finish the layout.
This wacky childish idea comes to fruition. The result of a long hard work that will become our life, a dream that will come true for two.
Lucky
I'm Lucky, until January 2022 I lived in the mountains, in Montenegro. A veterinarian gave me food and let me sleep outside his house in a kennel, but I was free.
One day, while I was walking on the Vrh Sljemena, I saw Chloé and Sevan coming up the slopes with their long red boards under their feet. I followed them and I liked them very quickly.
As we descended the mountain and arrived at the white metal box on wheels that serves as their home, I made it clear to them that I wanted to leave with them. They didn't immediately accept, but I was able to convince them.
Today, the three of us are discovering the world and I follow Chloé and Sevan in their sporting activities.
Chloe
I'm Chloé, the one who escapes in her dreams, who doesn't back down from anything. The one who has an idea in mind and rushes to realize it. The one who won't let go (hard head what).
You may not be familiar with the expression from the film, tanned people are skiing " I'm going, but I'm scared" That's exactly it. Leave everything to live your wildest dream, go on an adventure, into the unknown. It scared me but not for very long, I didn't want it to take over my inner desire, my dream. The desire to discover the world has been with me for a long time, very early on, I put money aside to make this dream come true.
The craziest part of all this is that when I first met Sevan, he let me know that he had the same desires as me. Leave everything and go travel. I can't believe it, to think that there is anyone on this earth who wants the same thing as me.
