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.