One Family. One Year. One Adventure.
When my husband and I decided to embark on this grand adventure and take a year to unplug from our regular busy lives and travel, we knew it would change us and our kids. Naively I thought it might take a few months, something around 6, but things started shifting within 3 weeks. The main reason […]
I had big plans for today. For months I envisioned all five of us packed into our Rav4 with a suitcase each, waving goodbye to our house with plans to only return to officially pack everything up in our POD around the closing date of our house sale. I had envisioned us clapping and singing in […]
A few months ago when we announced our plans to take an Gap Year to travel with our kids between our boys 5th and 6th grade year, we contemplated getting an RV. It seems so iconic. Get and RV and see the US National Parks. Take your house with you. Stretch out on the road. […]
As I pulled the covers up over my shoulders and turned to my husband to chat, I felt a wash of relief come over me. “We don’t have to push so hard to accomplish everything by June 1st do we?” “No,” he said. “This is supposed to be about reprioritizing our lives, not driving us crazy.” Up until […]
A few months ago we decided that our goal was to sell about 80% of what we own before we start our Gap Year because stuff drives us crazy. Besides clothes, books and two nice lamps, I’m pretty sure my husband and I could be minimalists. But our house doesn’t reflect that right now…with 3 […]
Nearly a decade ago my husband and I decided to leave a very comfortable life in search of a little adventure. We were musicians living and gigging in Chicago and had amassed quite a music teaching studio. Life was good. We walked to the grocery store. We took naps at random times during the day. […]