How much I need for Bike Packing?

First time I decided to go for a solo trip was in a few gap months between jobs.

Colleagues did not believe when I said I am leaving, but without any other offer yet.

This is quite interesting if you stop and think about it.

How is it possible that we are able to generate more than ever and we are somehow tying ourselfs to full time jobs (the 9 to 5) for life?

It’s not (All) about The Money

Dont get me wrong, this is far from being a critic to…

Are we doing just fine with the current Status Quo? When was the last time you stopped and thought about your core values, what it is really important for you?

Are you really sure that the latest newsletter from your favourite plane company telling you that you deserve some (very expensive) holidays is not harming you?

Do you really need to upgrade your current phone from last year version to this one?

If you havent come across this concepts - keep them handy: Diminishing Returns and Ego

The need to impress others - Probably buying things that you dont need - Fight Club,by Chuck Palahniuk, anyone?

The budget for Bike Packing Trips

Enough talking about the mindset, lets talk about the money.

How much is going to cost me such a journey?

What	How Much	Why
A bike	100 $	Diminishing Returns
Bike accesories	30$	Buy once, keep long time
Food Daily	20 $	Check cost of living
Sleep	0-40 $	Tent / Check cost of living

Sure, 100$ for a bicycle, this guy just tried a triple from the other side of the field 🏀

Am I lying to you?

Or am I just applying the mentioned Diminishing Returns Principle?

A brand new bicycle might have made my journey through the Baltics more confortable, but would that be x10 times more confortable?

In fact, I made that route not on a 100$ bicycle, but on 70$.

I also did not believe it was possible, but there are some tricks to get a reasonable price used bicycle.

Plus: you will have the possibility to know interesting stories about the seller and the bike

What Avoid

Are you here because you want to be financially free?

Want to live travelling?

There is one simple thing to understand first:

Let me now introduce you the concept of Temporal Preference.

Temporal preferences are the reasons…

1. why we are not able to save money
2. why we are not able to lose weight
3. why we are not able to learn a new language
4. why we are not able to learn a new skill
5. why despite a close group of wise people with a close algorithm say, interest rates at 0 (or negative) are non-sense

They are also the reason why we are not able to go for a bike packing trip when you get terrified of the idea of cycling uphills.

Temporal preferences is not only about not doing things.

It also have tangible consequences. For example: You might see many small shops in your neighbourhood, that are more expensive than the big supermarket.

• Why do they exist? Because they are convenient. They are there because most of us don’t have a meal plan, what I will eat in 2 days is a problem in 2 days, not now.

• They are close to us, and you dont need to plan ahead - you want something and you want it now.

Again, the now act as a gravitational force that pulls your decisions to the present.

If you dont think this have deeper consequences, you are living a lie.

The Opportunity Cost

Imagine you’re going bikepacking for a week. You have to decide where to go: the mountains or the coast.

If you choose the mountains, the opportunity cost is the experience you would have had at the coast. You can’t do both at the same time, so by picking one, you miss out on the other.

Opportunity cost is what you give up when you choose one thing over another.

So, when you make a choice, the opportunity cost is what you could have done instead.

In bikepacking, this might mean missing out on different views, trails, or adventures depending on which route you choose.

This concept applies to many areas of life, such as finances, relationships, and career decisions, where choosing one option means giving up other potential benefits.

The idea of opportunity cost should be present in all of us, whether we are ‘viajeros’ or not

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Private Property…of the work?

AI will take my job?

Is there such a thing as my job? does it resonates with progress?

When humanity steped up from using its time to gather food, thanks to the increase in productivity, most of us dont need to use our time to generate food for us not for others and we can focus on other ways to give value to others

What would have happened if at that moment people said: this is my job?

Actually…trying to keep the status quo is what most monarchies were trying to do at the time.

Now again: Do you embrace progress? or love current status quo?

Privileges: the only way I could win Michael Pelphs

What would be the point to be the best swimmer, of I am the one who put the rules to the competition?

I am not the faster swimmer in the world. Guess would it is the only way I can earn a gold medal - Tying rest of the participants hands

Again, does that sounds fair? does it sounds as we will actually achieve or get better at something?

Change is the only constant, and we are afraid of the changes

This is the reason why your colleagues did not believe me and the reason why your friends will tell you that you are crazy to even think in such adventure.

Its all about the Mindset

All of this sounds trully impossible when I was living in Seville.

I was rise to live a normal life (a regular XXI century life in Spain) - Study, go to college, be a good employee, have your few weeks of holidays a year and just dream about how different it could be.

Because some people makes it different, but I am not one of those…or wait, am I not?

Your travel starts with your change of mindset - aka: Stop doing the same and expect a different result

Books for Thought

You can start your journey from the ground up. Ideas will get your further:

1. Enquiridion
2. The millionaire Fast line
3. Digital Minimalism
4. The psychology of Money
5. The signal and the noise