With 2014 coming to a close I am reflecting on all of the things that inspired change. The things we needed to keep our dream alive and bring it to reality. I read this quote for the first time back in 2012 just after we decided to change our situation to travel. The process to get on the road was a lot harder and longer than we thought it would be. I referred back to …
5 Things I Did To Stay Positive When We Were Waiting To Travel
Oh, it was a long 4 years without a vacation as we prepared for perpetual travel. A very long and painful 4 years. The first 2 went by the quickest, we had a lot of distractions that helped keep the passion for our dream burning. But when those distractions started to disappear: Our careers were over, the home business was wrapped up and most of our house contents were sold or …
Making decisions… like your life depends on it
What if we pursued every passion we had with the same commitment and urgency we would have if our life depended on the success of our pursuit? No time for pause or procrastination, this means your life. Would more of our dreams come to reality, would the life we dream become the life we are living? Would all the things we want to get done, actually get done? This is the …
The Road Less Traveled on Oahu
One hour and forty-five minutes west of Honolulu, up the leeward coast of Oahu is the Waianae coast. Waianae is not a tourist destination like The North Shore or Waikiki, no pink hotels or expensive surf shops down this end of the Island. Thanks to shows like Dog the Bounty Hunter Waianae gets a bad rap for drugs and violence, people perceive it to be violent. There are some …
The Start For The Expat Experiment
South America has always been the continent we wanted to visit first on our adventure. Where to start in South America has changed a few times. If we had sold our house 2 years ago it would have been Cafayate, Argentina or a year later would have put us in Ecuador. We searched Ecuador, from Otavalo to Cuenca then up the coast as far as Esmereldas and settled on …