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When we tell people we are taking a six month sabbatical, we usually get a look of confusion followed by “How do you do that?”  It really is quite simple – quit your job, pack your belongings and hit the road!  Okay maybe it is not that simple, if you quit your job how do you pay for your travels, where are you going to go, how are you going to get there, what do you do with your house,  and the list goes on.  Believe me when I say we have asked ourselves these questions more than a few times and this decision  to go on sabbatical was not made on a whim after a night of one too many cocktails!  It is actually something we started planning way back in 1985 when we said our “I do’s”.

Those who know us best, know that we are extremely conservative and fiscally responsible so this decision was not entered into without a lot of planning and thought.  While Linda’s home based business and Greg’s positions in corporate America have provided us with a comfortable middle class life, as most know, management positions in corporate America allow for very little vacation time.  In fact the longest vacation we have ever taken in our 30+ years of marriage is a couple of 10 day trips when we took the kids out west to “see the country.”  The reality is, a 10 day trip to see the country is just the tip of the iceberg!

So some of you are probably thinking why not wait until you retire and then you will have all the time in the world to see the country.  While that is true, we also recognize we are not getting any younger and if you are a fellow baby boomers, we probably don’t have to tell you that the aches and pains seem to get turbocharged the day after that big birthday!  So we decided we want to travel the country while we can still hike to the top of the mountain and not regret it the next day!

With our financial house in order and our biggest liabilities and greatest contributions to the world, Gretchen and Megan, financially independent of us, we feel like there is no time like the present to take a leap of faith and hit the road! Linda’s business will continue to operate on the road and Greg did not retire, he is just on sabbatical! And so the fun begins on May 1, 2017! Hope you join us on our journey with Cheyenne (our little red Jeep) and our Little Lilly (our new R-pod 179 travel trailer) as we venture across America and Canada!