Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Okay, so I just started reading a book that I really am enjoying, recommended by my editor, Inc.

Jessica, she did a profile on this book because it was actually a Tim Ferris recommendation and it's called

Vega Bonding an uncommon guide to the art of long-term world travel. How about

that? Whether or not you're interested in world travel long term, I think that you will enjoy this episode because I'm like yes, I mean this is something that I think about all the time,

and I want more and more people to think about this

because we're so much more free than we realize.

And this book is very, very practical.

It talks about traveling long term as a lifestyle. It's something that actually

starts while you're at home in terms of living more simply. It's just full of incredible

eye-opening advice. But there's a couple of paragraphs in the book I wanted to read to you

and then to share with you a personal story. Okay? Here it is. He says, the author Rolf Potts says,

A few years ago, a magazine editor named Joe Robinson

spearheaded a petition called Work to Live.

The goal of this movement was to pass a law that would increase American vacation time

to three weeks after one year on the job and to four weeks after three years.

The rationale was that Americans placed too much emphasis on work, that we all have to look forward to,

that all we have to look forward to from day to day is a long tunnel of 11 and a half months of work every year.

The leading casualty of all this is our time, said Robinson,

the commodity that we seem to have so much of, the commodity we seem to have so much of back in

sixth grade when the clock on the wall never seemed to move.

Robinson's campaign was a worthy one and it found plenty of support at the grassroots

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