5 reasons why you should take a gap year in your 30s

We’re completing one month of ’30 on the road’ and to celebrate this milestone, we decided to talk about the advantages we saw in taking a gap year when we turned our three decades of life!

1. Being able to make choices: At this age, we are definitely adults. This is the perfect time to rethink some choices we made in the last few years. Most of them, while we were still teenagers.

2. Background: In 30 years, we already went through lots of moments. We’ve had jobs with lots of responsibility. We’ve learned how to handle different types of situations, how to deal with people in general, how to negotiate… In our 30 years old, we go ‘to the world’ ready to be more flexible to face the challenges that may come.

3. We have a profession: We’ve already built a career path and earned our degrees. They all travel with us and gives us credibility when talking with people on the road.

4. Families adopt us: Lots of ‘parents’ offered us to be our hosts. In general, they justify it because ‘we have children of your age who have left home; come, it will be great to have young people around again’.

5. Self-knowledge: We are sure that if we had gone on a gap year before, it wouldn’t have been this smooth. With maturity, we are more aware of what we like and what are our interests. This self-knowledge played an important role when we planned our trip: what’s the best kind of accommodation, where to go, how to travel around, and what kind of experiences we were looking for… These choices were crucial to making this year this memorable!