Tag: Travel video

  • One foot out the door

    We are on the downhill run now. We have successfully packed up and cleaned our home of 15 years, no easy task. For weeks, I have been slowly putting stuff into storage, a little at a time. It might have been easier to just schedule the last week and do it all in a blitz.…

  • Towards no fixed address

    When I decided, after so much deliberation, that I was going to leave my career, I had no idea what would happen next. I mean, I knew I would not be going to an office everyday. Instead, I could spend my time as I pleased with no outside pressure or deadlines. I had falsely assumed…

  • Oops…found a major budget mistake!

    Oops…found a major budget mistake!

    “If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.”    -Dan Rather Before we started to seriously plan our 2017/18 travel year, I created a detailed budget as a proof of concept. I wanted to make sure the numbers added up and that…

  • A big year starts with a single booking

    A big year starts with a single booking

    A Big Trip! We are 4 people in our family. Me, the middle-aged mother and my husband. Our son, who is 15 years old, but will be 16 when we leave. Our daughter, who is 14. We live in beautiful British Columbia, Canada and will rent out our house on a one year lease. Sounds…