In 2019, Ashley Kaye took a scuba diving trip to Honduras that changed the course of her life.
On that trip, Kaye met someone who travels full-time, and the conversation they had helped her realize she wanted to leave her career and life in Wisconsin behind and continue traveling.
“He told me he wished he had done it sooner because it’s so much easier and cheaper than you think. That changed everything for me,” Kaye tells CNBC Make It. “I went home and worked more and more until I quit the next year.”
Kaye spent three years traveling the world before she started overlanding.
Ashley Kaye
When Kaye quit her job in 2020, she says she had about $37,000 in savings, but what she struggled with the most was not having a job to fill her time.
“I didn’t know how to just do nothing. The first few months were really hard and I wasn’t sure if I was making the right decision,” she says.
“Once I got into my rhythm of traveling and growing my confidence through that experience, I’ve never looked back and don’t have a single regret about