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- Espiritu Indomable por el mundo
- Jul 19
- 5 min read
The beginning of a transformative experience. From Ushuaia to Alaska.
We're Mica, Martin, Oliver, África, and Paris (our old dog 🐶), and together we co-created Indomitable Spirit, a way to live life traveling as a family.
In this blog, we're going to tell you all about every destination we visited and every culture we explored.
Thank you for joining us!
I don't remember exactly what day it was, but around January 15, 2024, it was the most sincere moment we had as a couple. We sat down to talk, and we both agreed to align our energy and actions to achieve what we had long dreamed of.
We've shared this dream for 12 years. Since she was very little, Mica dreamed of traveling the world. And Martin had also dreamed of traveling for many years.
Our main goal was to move to Spain. In 2023, we had the opportunity to obtain citizenship, which was the thing that had always "held us back": the fact that we didn't have papers. But bureaucratic procedures don't understand the timing of dreams and the human impulses of the heart. That process took approximately 9 to 24 months. And in the meantime, we had already decided to close the business we had together in Argentina, which was no longer aligned with the life we wanted to live.
And now what did we do? Waiting so long in a place we didn't want to be was going to become agonizing.
That January 15th, our hearts met once again, and almost as a joke, we said, "Shall we travel in a motorhome?" It was all we needed for this project to take root and never stop.
A few days later, we went alone to a glamping site about 130 km from where we lived; it was Martin's birthday present. That was the moment we needed to enjoy together and know we were on the right path.
Today, September 3, 2024, as I write this, we've been building this life for several months and are just a few days away from starting this long-awaited lifestyle.
I'm not sure how to organize all my thoughts to describe what this process of completely transforming our lives is like. I'm sure every traveler or traveling family, as well as anyone who dares to pursue their dreams, goes through a very personal and unique process. But we surely all have some commonalities or emotions that we share.
Throughout this trip, we will try to write down everything that happens to us and everything we experience at each destination for two reasons:
First, it will be a memory that will stay with us forever, something we can return to whenever we need to, and so that our children, when they grow up, can read it and remember this adventure. Personally, writing is a way of integrating what we've experienced. It's a way to relive it all over again.
And on the other hand, I would like this story to also serve as inspiration for anyone on the other side who needs it, so that no one ever gives up on their dreams. So that fears aren't an obstacle.
From January to today, we haven't stopped for a minute. Every day, we take actions that bring us closer and closer to this dream, a dream that has actually already begun, one that excites us so much that we often want to cry with emotion or scream out loud.
We took it upon ourselves to dismantle the entire business we had and our entire lives. We sold everything we owned because all we needed was to get by with "something we were wearing."
The synchronicity of the universe, when we align and are authentic with what we desire, makes magical things happen. One day in January, while Martin was searching the internet for motorhomes for sale that fit our budget, he showed me a YouTube video from several months ago of a little house he'd loved. When he went to search for it on Instagram, just to check it out, oh, synchronicity of the universe had just put it up for sale!
He came to show it to me, and I fell in love. I felt a surge of emotion in my chest that I can't explain. It was so us! It seemed tailor-made. After seeing it, there was nothing we could have liked more than it. Martin contacted the owners. He chatted and chatted for months. At that point, we didn't have the money to buy it yet. But I was absolutely certain that if it was meant to be, it would be, and we trusted in that.
Six months passed, and finally, the little house arrived in our lives. It was waiting for us, because it had to be! It arrived at the perfect time, along with various personal situations that were happening to us. If you like labels, we don't, haha. Not all of those situations were good. There were obstacles we had to overcome, but everything happened at its perfect time, and nothing could be any other way because that's how it was meant to be. And this was our way of thinking and feeling with each step we took.
Our little house needed to go into the workshop, to be checked, pampered, and tuned up. And the truth is, more things started to appear than we had planned. A month in the first workshop. A month in the second workshop. Entering a third workshop and back to the first workshop. The timeframes seemed longer than we had anticipated, and at times, seemingly endless. But today we're just a step away, and we can only feel grateful for the decision we made.
There's something really crazy happening to me personally, Mica, and it's that I've always had high expectations for everything I did in my life. And I always imagined the best-case scenarios, grand or overly perfect things, but then reality would hit me hard, and frustration would set in. After two years of working hard with personal development tools, that version of myself was left behind.
However, I'm struck by my lack of expectations.
Today I have no expectations for the journey, not one, and it feels really strange, ridiculous, curious, I don't know what to call it. But I don't. I don't imagine anything. I don't assume anything. I'm simply open to whatever may come and ready to receive everything the world has to show me. I feel almost as if I know nothing, and I'm letting myself be surprised at every step, learning everything again for the first time, or maybe not again, but in a different way.
It's a feeling I've never had before. It feels light. The uncertainty that this would have generated in other times, I no longer feel today. Or at least it doesn't worry me, affect me, or destabilize me. We don't need to know everything.
When we simply allow ourselves to follow what we feel in our hearts, which may not make sense to our minds, the universe never abandons us; on the contrary, it accompanies us and pushes us toward what we desire.
We are here, dedicated body and soul to this new experience we have chosen to live as a family.
Life is simple, but we can make it as complex as we want.
Feel, love, live this simply. Why do we need more?
We invite you to join us on this journey, on this adventure, on this new way of living more slowly and more connected to what truly matters: our authenticity.
We are Indomitable Spirit; we don't believe in limiting beliefs or forgotten dreams, and that is our greatest driving force.
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Welcome to this journey!
Martin, Mica, Oliver, and Africa.
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