The couple known as Two Backpackers chose to live as migraters, moving from one country to another since April 2009.
They live the life as husband and wife with adventures in climbing a cliff in El Nido, Philipine; got carried away by a wave when paddleboarding in Honduras, and joining in a line of demonstators in Bangkok.
There are many things that they must sacrificed to run this life. They must be willing to be apart from parents and friends, have no home and sold everything they possesses for the sake of traveling around the woirld.
The only thing they have are backpacks on their backs that are considered light for years of traveling. A backpack with a size of 8kg for Ryan and 13kg for Dina.
"This is an abnormal life, but what is the worng with being abnormal? said Dina in Jakarta.
Before deciding to be backpackers, both ran a normal life.
Dina comes from Surabaya, met Ryan on an exchange student program in Japan. They got married in 2002 , then stayed in Canada and run their own activities.
Dina, a graduate of Chemistry Technique Institute of Technology in Bandung struggling in a lab while Ryan worked in a software company.
"Our initial capital is a life saving," said Dina. She and her husband saved money and frugal living since they got married, eventhough they have not thought about being a backpacker first.
"We did not start from zero, but negative, because we have a student loan that is tens or hundreds of million," said Dina. Their extreme decision certainly had some negative reactions from their close people.
Many of them were not sure that they were able to go on with the decision. There were also people who were dissapointed with Dina and Ryan's decision to leave the life that they have build with such difficulty. But with their strong will, all those worries were unproven.
"At the beginning, especially the first years of traveling, everytime they talk to their friends and families, their talk makes our spirit collapse. But if we can live an abnormal life like this and enjoying it without having to ask people for money and could survive on our own, I don't see any wrongdoing in that?"
Dina and Ryan must think inorder for them to keep migrating for the past five years. They still work in the streets.
Both chose a job that could be done with a capital of an internet connection. Ryan becomes a programmer while Dina becomes a writer and a photographer.
"Travel is not a sprint, a journey is not a marathon, chill out and enjoy the moment." That is Dina and Ryan's principle that they wrote in a Two Backpack blog.
Source : Tempo
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