Choosing Full-Time Travel Pt.1

How did we know we wanted to do this?

The short answer is that we were looking for a way to reclaim our time and energy and find a true sense of autonomy. We wanted to own our choices and experiences instead of feeling trapped beneath some perceived sense of entitlement. Living nomadically offers us all of that. But the long answer? It’s a little bit deeper than that.

Before we transitioned to this lifestyle, we lived much like everyone else. We invested nearly two decades into building a conventional life together. Despite all that we achieved, day after day, year after year, we were growing increasingly more stressed, less inspired, and less mentally and physically well. Despite all our hard work and sacrifice to “tick boxes”, we weren’t finding happiness or health. It was only when we allowed ourselves to be honest that we realized nothing about our hard work honored our individual beings. Focusing on work, using weekends to recharge, and scraping up the leftovers to afford moments of joy wasn’t how we wanted to spend our life. From there, it was easy to see that the conventional lifestyle we bought into was never going to lead us to fulfillment.

The clarity there was empowering and we became inspired by the idea of living “off-script”. We spent a good year prioritizing the exploration of what brings us joy and what weighs us down. In fact we started each day with it, ensuring we were giving this idea our best energy instead of whatever was left the end of a day. Through that intentionality and open communication, it was made clear that the flexibility and adventure of a nomadic lifestyle would serve us better than a conventional life ever could.