What the hell?
Why on earth would you want to do such a thing?
Isn’t it irresponsible to quit perfectly good jobs and spend part of your retirement?
Four years ago on the Fourth of July, Mason and I were sitting at the pool talking. The previous few weeks I had been courting a dangerous addiction and I needed to come clean with him.
Our conversation went something like this:
Me: So I have something to confess……………
Mason: Dear Lord, what?
Me: The last few weeks I have been reading these travel blogs written by people who quit their jobs and travel around the world for, like, a year. They take their kids and they spend this amazing time together as a family exploring all of these incredible places.
I woke up on a fabulously sunny summer Saturday (alliteration – YAY!) and promptly decided we needed a road trip.
Lily is always the easiest one to convince so I set her to the task of looking through our Travel Iowa book to decide on a destination. By the time the boys knew what hit them, we were on our way to Winterset.
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“It’s always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you’re going.” – Anthony Burgess
Yes, we are taking off on a pretty sweet adventure in September. But we were really wondering how we were going to keep ourselves busy and satisfy our wanderlust until then. And then it hit me.