: 16 Countries, One Van A Dog: NRI Couple Live The Travel Dream Without Leaving Jobs #IndiaNEWS #Adventure It was a dream that Smriti Bhadoria, who goes by ‘Sim’, had harboured for years — a

16 Countries, One Van A Dog: NRI Couple Live The Travel Dream Without Leaving Jobs #IndiaNEWS #Adventure
It was a dream that Smriti Bhadoria, who goes by ‘Sim’, had harboured for years — a “maybe one-day�? dream, to pack her home and life into one vehicle and head on out where adventure awaits, to explore what the world had to offer on her terms.
When she met Kartik Vasan a few years ago, he decided to make this their dream.
Mesmerised by Mohan’s (played by Shah Rukh Khan) RV in Swades (2004), or the story of Gunther Holtorf and Christine, who traversed six continents in their G-Wagen, the Toronto-based couple have made a 45-year-old campervan their home. Their partner in crime is Everest, a Border Collie-Labrador, with whom they have spent 16 months covering seven countries across over 27,000 km. The adventurous trio is on their way to enter their third continent soon.
“Getting to finally live the dream was the result of many small steps we took over the last five years,�? Sim tells The Better India. “We knew very well that the western concept of ‘we left the 9 to 5 to live our dream’ would never work for us. As Indian kids, our careers came with a set of responsibilities, so we decided to take a more secure path, which would help us sell this ‘van life’ idea to our parents. �?
“We switched our career away from management roles to more technical ones. From 2018 onwards, we were both working full-time remote jobs in our respective fields,�? says Kartik, who is an IT consultant. Sim, meanwhile, works in digital marketing.
Sim, Kartik, and Everest have travelled over 27,000 kilometres in their home on wheels (Source: brownvanlife)
It was the same year that the couple found their new home lying in a field — a 1977 Dodge Van, which they have since dubbed the ‘Brown Van’. It had no breaks or a working engine, and they spent the next two years fixing the mechanics. “Our goal was to hit the road for our next big adventure in 2020,�? Kartik says.
He adds, “Our parents took some time to come around. For them, living in anything but home was a bizarre concept. Living in a van gives them an illusion of us being homeless or not accomplished. So we had to educate them a lot on how many couples are out there, living a full-filling life by exploring the world, and assuring them that all their concerns like jobs and security were taken care of. �?
Their parents also suggested that the duo tie the knot before they embark upon this journey.
And so, in February 2020, Sim and Kartik had their “big fat Indian weddind��Y�ܙHH�ՒQLNH[�[ZX��X�ˈ8�'��[��ՒQ][�[݈�X[��[YHܘ�[��ۋ��HX�YY��]�ؙY�H��[��[��ܛ[��Yۈ�[��[��H[��[ܜ�وH�[�8��^�؝Zˈ

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