As the nationwide movement on extended travel and career break – Meet, Plan, Go! recently took the world by storm on September 14th 2010, inspiring countless travel aspirants to break away from their daily grind and escape from their cubicles,  the Tours4Fun team experienced a strong dosage of inspiration themselves. And it seemed utterly natural to allow this feeling to flow into words, as some of our favorite travel crushes – Sherry Ott from Ottsworld, Janice Waugh from Solo Traveler, and Lisa Lubin from LLWorldTour were the hosts of this terrific event across several cities.

Tours4Fun has always been fascinated by world travelers with whom they’ve had the privilege to connect with in the last few months – The Meet, Plan, Go! Masterminds, Nora Dunn from Professional Hobo, Brian Peters from No Debt World Travel, Barbara Weibel from Hole In The Donut Travels, just to to name a few, who have taken the momentous step to fulfill their dreams of blending into the diversely fascinating hues of this colorful world, not by being an outsider, but by being a deeply curious soul who wants to connect with the world “one on one” and make a difference.

Are you ready to take the big leap? When is the right moment to take THE step towards a life-transforming journey and life sabbatical or "gap year"? When do you exactly know that this is it…now is the time. If you nod in pensive agreement to our 13 Career Break Symptoms quoted below, then it surely is the time for you to Meet, Plan, and Go!

You know you ought to take the plunge:

1. When you want to stop running on the treadmill of life and control your pace on an unpredictable, yet exciting terrain, replete with thrilling and liberating twists and turns
2. When you want to know how it feels to call the world as your home
3. When you want your life to be like an open field where you can take charge of the reigns and direct it the way you want; spread your wings and fly
4. When you realize that if not now then never
5. When you’re convinced that the ‘real’ learning experience comes from knowing the world beyond your boundaries and cannot be quantified as the number of years on your resume
6. When you know that there are too many fascinating things to be experienced, explored, and embraced…and you know that is actually possible to not let your life go by and miss them
7. “When” becomes more important than “How”
8. When Nationwide movements like Meet, Plan, Go and literary acclaims like Eat, Pray, Love stir something inside of you
9. When you want to marvel at the infinite wonders of the world through your eyes, and not through Travel Channel, and write your own travel stories and inspire others for a change
10. When you can’t suppress the hunger of discovering a new life and a new you
11. When you truly want to have a relationship with you and not be oblivious to what it means and how it feels
12. When you want to paint your life with kaleidoscopic colors and not feel content with one uniform, consistent color
13. When you perceive career break as not only an act of self-indulgence, but also as an effective means to share the things that you feel fortunate for and enrich and enlighten yourself by soaking  in the wisdom and extraordinariness that exists in the world