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Today I am talking with Pete Heck who happens to be one half of the duo that are Hecktiktravels.com. He and his wife Dalene did what I’d dreamt of doing for years and sold everything they owned to travel the world. On their website Pete is described as the Chief Pretty Photo Maker and as a photographer myself it’s a damn good description. Jump on to their instagram feed and see for yourself for a little travel inspiration!  In 2014 they were named as National Geographic’s ‘Travelers of the Year’ which is just a huge accomplishment and shows just how much they’ve done. From their website: We are Dalene and Pete Heck, a Canadian couple who sold everything to travel the world. Quite regularly, one of us will look at the other and say: “I love my life.” But it wasn’t always that way. Up until the time we boarded a South America-bound plane in fall of 2009, we had lived a life of corporate ladder-climbing by day and retreating to the suburbs by night. We were not terribly unhappy with our lives, but knew that there had to be more out there. And then, during the first half of 2007, a barrage of personal tragedies pushed us to finally discover what that “more” was. We had learned, the very hard way, the impact of the age-old cliche: Life is too short. We made our move. In 2009 we blindly moved from our 2,100 square foot house full of unnecessary goods into combined luggage space of 200 litres. We then began a life of perpetual travel that has been endlessly fulfilling. We’ve taught underprivileged kids to swim in Bolivia, rode camels in the Sahara Desert, kayaked among icebergs in Greenland, and so much more.