As we are slowly saying our goodbyes here in Tahoe, my emotions keep getting the best of me. I get teary eyed and a bit sad thinking of leaving all these wonderful people who have made such an impact on our lives this past year.
When saying this though, I feel like we have written this same blog in every single single city we have lived in regardless of where it was in the world. People, relationships, friendship they all make an impact. We all believe that we have made a positive impact on everyone we have met, and vise versa.
As I explained to Gavin the other day when he was sad about us turning in our leased car, Blackie… toys, friends, homes, cars, they all come into our life. We enjoy them, love them, use them (not people, you know what I mean), have experiences, be fully invested and involved with them and then we go on to the next to experience more, meet more people, play with new things.
We would be so lucky knowing we made as much of an impact on other peoples lives as they did on ours.
So, thank you to all of you, for all you have done and given us over the years. Our lives are not the same because we met you. XO
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Travel with your family
Because the conventional lifestyle stopped feeling like the right fit. Most families who choose long-term travel describe a moment of clarity where the trade-offs of staying still began to cost more than the trade-offs of moving. The calculation is different for every family but the feeling is similar.
It makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar. You stop assuming that the way things work at home is the only way things can work. Kids who grow up traveling tend to be more comfortable with ambiguity and more genuinely curious about people who are different from them.
Yes for families who treat it as a real lifestyle rather than an extended vacation. That means financial planning, rhythm and structure, honest conversations about what is and is not working, and building community wherever you are rather than always moving before roots form.
Community. The friendships that come from being in one place long enough for people to know you. The familiarity of a grocery store where you know where everything is. The ease of not making decisions about basics. These are real losses and the best travel families acknowledge them rather than pretending otherwise.
Intentionally and incrementally. Most families do not leap from conventional to traveling overnight. They build remote work capacity, pay down debt, test longer trips before committing, and have increasingly honest conversations with each other about what they actually want. The leap feels bigger from outside than from inside.
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