When Jeremy and I were getting ready to trade in our address and 9-to-5 jobs for a nomadic life and a lot of question marks, we pulled out just about every trick we could find to save money to travel the world. To be honest, we got a bit ridiculous about it. But you know what? We don’t regret a single penny-pinching move that we made, and we didn’t mind…
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I’ve made no secret of my love of lists: just a month ago I shared my annual birthday list with you guys. Today, I want to share a different list tradition. When I was a teenager, I first came across the idea that grateful people…
It’s that time again: I’m so excited to say that in less than one month, we’ll be boarding a plane and heading off on our next multi-month adventure! Why Central America? When laying out our initial RTW trip plan (a plan that has officially gone…
Looking back on it, the long journey that led to me looking at Jeremy one year ago and asking, “How would you feel about selling our house and going on that RTW trip right now?” started with a book about studying for the LSAT. I…
Jeremy and I are coming up on the two month mark of our RTW trip, and so far our homesickness rate has been… just about zero. I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the lack of homesickness, and so far haven’t had a single moment that I’ve…
Y’all. This is really happening, and it feels more than a little unreal. As this post goes live, we should be sitting in an airport for the first of two gigantic layovers (30 hours of travel time is the cost of getting from San Antonio…
You know that high that comes when you buy something? The lightheartedness of consumption, the airy happiness bought with fresh packaging and a new smell–whether for a book, a car, a piece of clothing? Well, as it turns out: the joy of unloading items and…
I have written and deleted and rewritten the opening paragraph of this post at least a dozen times. It appears that the words just aren’t going to come out right on this subject, but I am so ready to have them out there that I’m…