Our Story

Why do we travel full time?
Is it all the beautiful places we get to experience?
Is it for the adventure?
More time together as a family?
Financial freedom?

To answer that question we would have to go back a couple of years. To when we were living in our house that we had just bought on property out in the country in Michigan. I drove a brand new jeep, had my dream job working at a salon as a hairdresser. Alex worked full time in his corporate job. Some might say we had a perfect life, but to us, it was just the life society told us we should want.

We would leave each day and go live our own separate lives. Alex and I to work, declan to school, and Hadley with a nanny. The nanny would pick declan up from the bus stop and watch the kids until we got home from work.
She would have dinner ready when we got home and we would have about two hours together before it was time to go to bed and do it all over again.

Weekends were spent catching up on all the things we didn’t have time for during the week. Housework, yard work, grocery shopping.
Before we knew it, it was time to start the week again and do all the same things, in the same place week after week. Some people find routine to be comforting, they enjoy knowing what to predict, but I’ve learned that’s just not us.

There was so much we were missing out on. I was at work when Hadley took her first steps, Alex missed the first time Hadley and Declan said “Dada”.

We realized what good is all this stuff we have if we aren’t able to enjoy it? Why are we working so hard for a life that we aren’t living to the fullest? If the most important thing to us is just being together as a family, why are we spending so much time apart?

We learned money does not equal happiness and that it’s about the people in your life and how you spend your time that determines how happy you are.

We were ready to live a more simple life. A life that is slower paced. No more rushing around, running late and then getting frustrated because you spilled your coffee all over yourself (if I had a nickel for every time I did that!) and didn’t have time for breakfast. A life not stressing about paying the mortgage. A life not focused on making sure your lawn looks as good as the neighbors.

We traded all of that for a new view outside our door all the time. For the moments when we’re sitting around a fire sharing stories of our adventures. For a life spent making memories with our kids. For a small simple home that can take us to amazing places. For the most epic mountain sunsets outside our windows. For a life lived on our terms. For that feeling we get when we look around and the view leaves us speechless. A life we never need a vacation from. A life lived to the absolute fullest and with no regrets.

If you can relate to this, I just want you to know that you don’t have to live your life the way society tells you that you should. You don’t need the house, the cars, the corporate job that does not value you more than your family does, in order to be happy. Your life can be whatever you want it to be. You just have to be willing to make the change. Taking this leap of faith has been the best decision we’ve ever made and we haven’t even thought about looking back.