Lesson learned; super fancy wheelie suitcase/backpacks will not stop kids whining. Alpha and Lennox got fancy wheeled/backpack hybrid suitcases for Christmas. I thought, ‘maybe, just maybe they would be so excited by the wheels that they wouldn’t whine about lugging around their own stuff.’ Nope. Lennox was a trooper, Alpha not so much. I’m not […]
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The Reality
(Warning a bit of a rant ahead.) Following on from what I mentioned last time is the ‘reality’. Reality does kind of suck. It’s fun dreaming about adventures, imagining what it could be like, but when you actually have to do the hard slog to get from dream to reality…. well it’s bloody hard. Mostly […]
There's not much you need to do…
Says the person who has no idea what it’s like to undergo this kind of adventure. There’s a ton of work before we leave the country. I think people assume just because we rent, we don’t have as much to do before we can leave. That is not the case. In fact, if we owned […]
"How do you start?"
What are we doing? Well, we’re traveling, we’re taking the kids out of school, we’re building the business, and we’re leaving for an extended undetermined amount of time. No more than two years though. It seems, however, that most people think we’ll fall in love with a country and stay there. HaHaHa!! The thought is […]
Is this a good idea?
I never thought that I would feel too old to do something. But things change. I never thought that age would hit me and that it would impact how I would think about adventure and life long goals. Hell in my teens, the world was 100% about possibilities. In my 20’s I still had a […]