You were a young boy living with your parents under their protection. Likely they didn't care if you find a job within 6 months while they were helping you since you are their precious child (most parents do the same). That is not the same as blowing 80k while having fun acting like you couldn't find any survivable job for 2 years.
Someone I vaguely know made the recommendation in print that, if you lost your job, get something at Starbucks the next day. Don't really agree but the one time I lost my job, I did start doing regular professional job hunting the next day which materialized in fairly short order through my network. Had that not worked out, I'd probably have done something survivable absent any particular severance package.
It was sort of a dismal time in tech in general (dot-bomb) so I wouldn't have just taken a couple months to travel even if I could have afforded to do so.
