Our Long-Term Travel Goal

I wanted to take a few minutes to update all of you amazing readers on our goals so that everyone will understand our future plans. We always knew we wanted to travel more. We would like to see the world and experience it with our children. We dreamed of traveling the world, climbing mountains, swimming oceans, eating exotic foods, epic road trips, cultural experiences, living out of suitcases, and meeting people around the world. We crave that sense of awe and wonder that one feels when experiencing something for the first time.

Sounds like a great daydream, doesn’t it? The problem with this desire is that we are working stiffs with three kids, a mortgage, debt, and a crapload of stuff. People like us don’t do things like that. It felt like money was the main problem standing between us and our dream. After we decided that we were going to make our dream a reality, we had to break it down into steps. I am now dividing those big steps into small, very doable steps. That is why we started the monthly goals. What we figured out over the course of doing those monthly goals is priceless. We figured out that it was not money stopping us from living our dreams. It was us. We weren’t living in a way to ever make our dream a reality. When we sat down to see if there were any changes we could make that would allow us to travel with our kids, we were shocked to find that we could be living our dream in a few short years.

Our goal is to begin long-term travel as a family of five by the end of 2020. If everything goes as planned we hope to leave in fall. We plan to do a combo of traveling around the United States while I work as a travel nurse and world travel between contracts. We plan to continue the blog while we are preparing and during our travels. We are also flirting with the idea of vlogging but it’s not definite yet. We do plan to try making a couple vlogs before we leave so we can try to learn how to edit video. We have never attempted to edit video before but we are curious to try it. Short vlogs would be a great way to share our experiences with our friends and family at home. We plan to bring Jack with us in the US and only go overseas if we have somebody to take care of him. If it looks like housing is going to be too big of an issue while in the US because of the dog and kids, we may consider a camper/RV. There are still many unknowns but we are working on it one thing at a time.

I never in a million years thought that we would be planning to live our dreams of travel with our kids but here we are. I will write a post about the details of our plan soon so that you can understand everything we need to do over the next two years in order to be prepared for our adventure. Do you have any tips for us on planning travel with kids? Please leave them in the comments!

Thanks for reading!