After seven months on the road with her parents touring the Western U.S., Europe and Morocco, Mali headed back to the United States to resume her young adult life. She was interviewed by her parents as an exercise to attain some closure and a touchpoint for reflection before embarking on the next chapter of…
Several friends have asked a bit about our everyday life on the road. What do we do to fill our time? What didn’t we know that we wished we had known? How have our habits changed and which therefore leads me to wonder how have we changed? Our lives have finely slowed down significantly, as…
A question we are asked all the time is “How can you afford to do this?” People often assume that we must be wealthy to afford to travel as much as we have and do a trip like this, but actually, we are quite average. As a teacher and a librarian, our salaries were not…
It took us June and July to finish the house renovation projects, prepare the house to sell, find a home for everything that didn’t fit into our 5’ X 10’ storage unit or our one car, all the while simultaneously planning and packing for our new life on the road. The first huge leap came…
One might think that being stricken with acute wanderlust is something to envy; however, as the host of this deep yearning, acquired through generations of my family traveling the earth and a childhood steeped in outdoor adventure, this need to fulfill my travel itch can sometimes feel like an addiction that consumes each thought.…
January 29, 2014 It’s amazing how a seemingly innocuous moment, like washing the dishes and chatting with your family, can be that definitive moment that has the potential for exponential transformation. Yet several nights ago, my husband and I, with our teenage daughter’s buy-in (and help with the dishes), decided to go forth in pursuing…