{"id":2061,"date":"2017-10-04T09:04:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T03:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2018-10-01T09:12:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T03:42:33","slug":"five-real-life-travelers-who-went-outside-the-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/article\/five-real-life-travelers-who-went-outside-the-norms","title":{"rendered":"Inspiring Travelers &#8211; Who Went Outside the Norms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">These travelers live on the edge. They make us feel shame on the kind of stale life we are having. They took the conventional travelling ideals into to the trash. For them the entire world is \u2018Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam\u2019. Nothing stops them. Having a family of three children doesn\u2019t stop Derek and McKenzie from travelling; being deaf doesn\u2019t stop Calvin young and so does heights and distances doesn\u2019t scare Hans and Rehage. I am sure there are several others who travel amidst several odds but here\u2019s the story of five travelers who lives on the edge living their dream.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 28px;\"><strong>Calvin Young &#8211; The Deaf\u00a0<\/strong><b>Traveler<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2063\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Calvin-Young.jpg\" alt=\"Calvin Young - Traveler\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Calvin-Young.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Calvin-Young-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Calvin-Young-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Calvin-Young-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"\/pictures\/upload\/image\/youtu.be-image%20(2).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Copyright:\u00a0Calvin Young<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This man is deaf, but being handicapped doesn\u2019t stop him exploring the world. <a href=\"http:\/\/seektheworld.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Calvin Young<\/a> \u00a0started travelling when he realized that the companies he owned was not helping him realizing his dreams. He saved some money, quit his job and started travelling. Over the last years, along with his deaf friends Calvin has explored more than 20 countries and right now he has started a blog which inspires and gives advises for millions of aspiring travelers across the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 28px;\"><strong>Derek and McKenzie &#8211; Five Take Flight<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2065 size-full\" title=\"Derek and McKenzie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/FTF-Israel-five-2-1024x987.jpg\" alt=\"Derek and McKenzie\" width=\"1024\" height=\"987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/FTF-Israel-five-2-1024x987.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/FTF-Israel-five-2-1024x987-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/FTF-Israel-five-2-1024x987-768x740.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"\/pictures\/upload\/image\/youtu.be-image%20(1).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Copyright:\u00a0Derek and McKenzie<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Family of five, father, mother; three children under the age of five sold their house for travelling around the world. Crazy! Right, but not for them, until now they\u2019ve visited more than five countries and plans to do more. <a href=\"http:\/\/fivetakeflight.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Derek and McKenzie<\/a> couples along with their three small children and a nanny whom they choose from Over 24000 applications started travelling at the start of this year. Now they are on an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCT6tuNpuSw4euBnCkDTmzzQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exciting journey<\/a> which last for a year and after taking a two weak Christmas break they will be back on track.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 28px;\"><strong>Scott and Collette Stohler &#8211; Couples Travelling For a Living<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2066\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Scott-and-Coco-Flamingo-Dance.jpg\" alt=\"Scott and Collette Stohler\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Scott-and-Coco-Flamingo-Dance.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Scott-and-Coco-Flamingo-Dance-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Scott-and-Coco-Flamingo-Dance-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Scott-and-Coco-Flamingo-Dance-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Scott-and-Coco-Flamingo-Dance-640x640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Scott-and-Coco-Flamingo-Dance-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"\/pictures\/upload\/image\/youtu.be-image%20(3).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Copyright: Scott and Collette Stohler<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Work hard for a year, save some money and then travel the world. This is the travel most of us are following for a long time now. But this couple made their dream into a livelihood. They travel and explore to earn and then take some time off to sit back and relax in front of a TV. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a9G5hO1rlqE&amp;t=4s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scott and Collette Stohler<\/a> run the travel website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roamaroo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roamaroo.com<\/a>. During the last seven years they\u2019ve been to over 50 countries. While travelling they support themselves financially by \u2018destination marketing campaigns\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 28px;\"><strong>Christoph Rehage &#8211; The Longest Way<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2064\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/christoph-rehage3.jpg\" alt=\"christoph Rehage \" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/christoph-rehage3.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/christoph-rehage3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"\/pictures\/upload\/image\/youtu.be-image%20(4).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Copyright:\u00a0Christoph Rehage<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">4500 miles, one year and all the way across china on foot, this guy seriously wanted to get \u2018essence\u2019 of China. <a href=\"https:\/\/christophrehage.com\/about-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christoph<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/christophrehage.com\/about-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rehage\u2019s<\/a> original goal was to walk from Beijing to Germany but stopped after one year and 4500 miles. During this journey on foot he crossed Gobi! Last year he took another stroll and that was from Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan which started from July 31st, 2016 in Khorgas, China until January 25th, 2017 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.Watch one of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5ky6vgQfU24&amp;t=243s\">videos<\/a> and walk along.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong>Hans Kristian \u2013 Sky running<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2070 size-full\" title=\"Hans Kristian\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/last.jpg\" alt=\"Hans Kristian\" width=\"918\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/last.jpg 918w, https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/last-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/last-768x355.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 918px) 100vw, 918px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"\/pictures\/upload\/image\/youtu.be-image%20(5).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Warning; Acrophobic people don\u2019t read this and don\u2019t even think of watching the video. It \u2018ill will be fatal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Sky running is an extreme sport. It\u2019s not something for the soft hearted. It\u2019s for the people who have nerves of steel and muscles to back it up. Hans Kristin along with his team <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/skyblazers\/hans-kristian-smedsr%C3%B8d-a3e64f0c5774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018sky blazers\u2019<\/a> have conquered almost all of the peaks in their home country Norway and they are not stopping. Sky-running competitions are held world wide. The winner is the one who reach the highest point with least time. Well \u2018sky blazers\u2019 can 15 hours straight! Watch this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PO-BLGUZ1W4&amp;t=47s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a> and you will get the chill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">These travelers and explorers are living their dream through conditions most of cant fathom. Some of them could seem to be quite unrealistic or mundane but in the end none of that matters if they are happy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","ub_ctt_via":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-offbeat"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Travelers-Who-Went-Outside-the-Norms.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Rohan","author_link":"https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/article\/author\/rohan"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Travelers-Who-Went-Outside-the-Norms.jpg",905,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Travelers-Who-Went-Outside-the-Norms-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Travelers-Who-Went-Outside-the-Norms-300x133.jpg",300,133,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Travelers-Who-Went-Outside-the-Norms-768x339.jpg",640,283,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Travelers-Who-Went-Outside-the-Norms.jpg",640,283,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Travelers-Who-Went-Outside-the-Norms.jpg",905,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Travelers-Who-Went-Outside-the-Norms.jpg",905,400,false],"master-business-thumb":["https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Travelers-Who-Went-Outside-the-Norms-380x360.jpg",380,360,true],"wp_review_small":["https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Travelers-Who-Went-Outside-the-Norms-65x65.jpg",65,65,true],"wp_review_large":["https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Travelers-Who-Went-Outside-the-Norms-320x240.jpg",320,240,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Rohan","author_link":"https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/article\/author\/rohan"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"[&hellip;]","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2069,"href":"https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions\/2069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trodly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}