Paring Down for Adventure
The list of decisions that must be made before beginning a year of full-time travel includes everything from where to go to how and how to get there to what to pack and how much to spend. But one of the biggest decisions is deciding what you do (or do not) leave behind. What will you come back to? For a decade, Chris and I have lived in the house his parents built more than 50 years ago. We meant it to be a short term stay while we cared for his father in declining health. But his father died just weeks before our planned move, and we spent the next year in transition as we cleared out 50 years of accumulated possessions, updated the home and pared down our own belongings. Somehow five years passed as we both changed jobs, lost more family members and spent several months traveling each year when we took up house and pet sitting. Then…Covid. Finally, in 2023 we began to seriously plan for lifestyle in retirement. What type of home did we really want and where did we want it to be? ...