Self sustain travel stint to learn and research

By Akanksha Bumb Sachdeva on November 19, 2013 16 Comments / 5486 views

I and my husband Jeet are out travelling minimalistically across India. We plan to volunteer – for teaching, cob cottage building, organic farming, running a cafe/homestay, rebuilding/rehab for floods – across India. This will support our travels (in terms of giving us food and shelter). And we will be continuing our freelance assignments to support our other expenses.

It would be great if TRHs can help us with interesting freelance assignments that we can complete online or give us leads to any interesting volunteering activity they know of. Here is our brief profile:

Both of Us

are travel freaks and believe in experience the place as it is and not how we would have wanted it. We have given up on a corporate career and the meaningless hurry and stress that comes with it. We plan to travel across India, learning and experiencing grass route wisdom and reach Himalayas to open our art cafe. We currently freelance for content writing and other such things to support our minimalistic lifestyle. Both of us are 30 years old.

Jeet Sachdeva

is a hotel management graduate from IHM and an MBA(HR) from Nirma University, Ahmedabad (2007). Since then he has worked in hospitality and tourism and had co-founded an adventure travel outfit called 78mmadventures. He has experience with an eco-ranch and with running resorts operation. His last job was with The Tamara Coorg, a resort in Coorg, Karnataka. He is an avid rider and has ridden through Himalayas, Kutch, and Western Ghats.

Akanksha Bumb

is an engineer and an MBA(HR) by qualification. Her MBA was also completed through Nirma (2009). After 3.5 years of corporate HR experience she said goodbye to that life and joined a travel startup called Oddroad, where she planned and organised (& executed) adventure trips around Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Since July 2013, she has been doing freelancing and has been working on her book.

Our next destination is Greater Rann of Kutch where we will be teaching English, training students on horses, and will help run a homestay. Thereafter, we plan to do Goa, Uttarakhand, Odisha and may be a few more. End destination is likely to be Himachal for our cafe but right now we just plan to have a self sustained travel stint and learn and research all that we think is vital for opening our dream cafe and eco community.

But more than the research, this is an experiment – of minimalistic living and de-conditioning ourselves from what we think (or have been made to think) are our basic necessities and must-haves. We will be creating a travelogue in times to come to share our updates.

Comments

Akanksha Bumb Sachdeva

16 Comments

asha chaudhry November 20, 2013, 5:17 am

hi akanksha,

I LOVE WHAT BOTH OF YOU ARE DOING!!!

so when you say content writing – does this pertain only to TRAVEL? pls add as many details as you can so people know exactly what kind of assignments you are open to. do you do photography as well? videos? you should partner with some of our rodinhooders in the travel space for providing content.

am sharing your link with yunus of fitrangi – he really needs someone for his content!

https://www.therodinhoods.com/forum/topics/new-adventure-startup-soft-la…

be in touch with talvinder of tushky – he is also a rodinhooder

there is trek.to

https://www.therodinhoods.com/forum/topics/trekto-in-adventure-weekend-destination-guide

in the meanwhile pls SEARCH these rodinhooders on trhs – akshay chhugani (indian backpacker)

varun khona (tourlandish)

sudipta sanyal (the blueberry trails)

anurag chandna

manish (dayhalt)

gouthami – travel another india (gouthami is based in goa – and though i haven’t met her i can connect you guys)

i’m in touch with shivya nath of india untravelled – she does her own content – but you should stay in touch as they are into volunteering.

the alternative

then there is january the fourteenth

https://www.facebook.com/januarythefourteenth

i could go on and on…

pls send me an email at asha@rodinhood.com & asha@indiadecoded.com and i’ll try and connect you with as many people i can…
Akanksha Bumb Sachdeva November 20, 2013, 5:55 am

Thanks Asha. Will get on it.

As for your question..we can do content on a lot of other things like literature, poetry, HR, hospitality. Although, it makes sense for us to write on travel. We definitely do photographs and can try videos.

Thanks a ton!
asha chaudhry November 20, 2013, 8:56 am

another travel-related rodinhooder – https://www.therodinhoods.com/forum/topics/crowd-sourcing-travel-itineraries-tripoto

but they are into content sharing…!
Saurabh Gupta November 22, 2013, 10:20 am

what an awesome move. well done both of you !
Suhas November 29, 2013, 6:21 pm

Great going !! Love what you both are doing – which many aspire to; but few end up doing !!! suhas katti.
Nitish Mehta November 30, 2013, 6:06 am

you guys are amazing …!!! have a look at this link https://www.leapyearproject.org , might help you
Akanksha Bumb Sachdeva December 8, 2013, 2:48 am

Thanks Nitish! Sorry about the delayed response. Were travelling without connectivity!
Akanksha Bumb Sachdeva December 8, 2013, 2:49 am

Thanks Suhas. Yes! people say it’s a brave move…and then there are some who point out the foolishness of it. Let us see how it works out.
Akanksha Bumb Sachdeva December 8, 2013, 2:49 am

Thanks Saurabh.
Subhra Pattnaik March 1, 2014, 9:49 am

I found it awesome..hope you guys succeed the goals you have set for both you..great going and all the best for future plans 🙂
Rahul Gupta March 1, 2014, 12:55 pm

Awesome life you folks are living, please drop me a mail at rahul@pricecheckindia.com I may have some ideas for you. Please do share your contact details.

Enjoy,
– Rahul
Akanksha Bumb Sachdeva March 1, 2014, 3:35 pm

Hi Rodinhooders..
Been absent for a while. The stint at Kutch was pretty engrossing and it went awesomely well..
Started this blog https://bohemiansnuffbumble.wordpress.com chronicling our experience. Please do have a look and share your feedback. Also, we would really appreciate tips and leads to generate revenue through the blog/travel writing. (Shoe string budget and minimalist lifestyle…remember?)
Akanksha Bumb Sachdeva March 1, 2014, 3:38 pm

Thanks Rahul. Have mailed you from akankshabumb@gmail.com. Stay.in touch!
Akanksha Bumb Sachdeva March 1, 2014, 6:49 pm

Thanks Subhra. Do drop by our blog http:bohemiansnuffbumble.wordpress.com
Akanksha Bumb Sachdeva March 6, 2014, 6:21 pm

Hi Asha

We are doing a stint in Goa. Can you please put us in touch with Gouthami? I would like to meet her and discuss few ideas of working together.

It would be very kind of you.

regards

akanksha
asha chaudhry December 15, 2015, 6:39 am

hey happy b’day akanksha!

long time no word – pls update us on your journeys (pun intended!!)

have an awesome day!