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Alyssa right here this sunny afternoon sharing some large information + what I’ve determined is my new favourite video of our time in Japan.
Watching it, I burst out laughing not less than 20 occasions and likewise cried at Eli talking Japanese. Or, not less than, as a lot Japanese as an 18-month-old can muster.
Extremely suggest you finish your week with some giggles and lovely surroundings in our newest video driving the forgotten shoreline of Japan.
OKAY ONTO THE BIG NEWS…
However first, the wind-up, as a result of this story dates again three years.
2020 was a very loopy 12 months for us.
- Heath raised large cash to maintain Campground Reserving rising.
- We had been looking for—and located—property to construct a campground.
- We purchased a home close to stated property in order that we might have our personal house whereas we had been underneath development and whereas we had been hopefully rising child #2.
- Plus it was 2020.
It was a 12 months of main life choices.
Effectively, it’s possible you’ll know the way all these issues labored out.
However when you don’t… TL;DR, we bought every little thing so we might spend time touring collectively as a household of 4.
Final 12 months we spent 4 months touring overseas and barely spent half of the 12 months really in our home.
Which had me asking Heath…
Why will we dwell in a home once more? 🤔
After a lot of forwards and backwards, we determined in conventional Padgett vogue to explode our life plans and begin from scratch.
We’re already taking a number of months out of the 12 months to go overseas. Why not promote the home, pocket the cash, and journey the world?
So the day earlier than leaving for Japan in April, we met with a realtor and listed our home on the market.
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Then rates of interest skyrocketed so we pivoted and located renters for our home as an alternative.
This was a kind of moments the place lets say “Nobody is shopping for homes proper now. We shouldn’t promote. Let’s simply keep house.”
Or lets say “How can we nonetheless make this journey dream occur?” and go for it anyway.
Heath sends me potential Airbnbs from Zillow principally each day so this killed two birds with one stone. Heath can have his “rental funding property” and I don’t should ever say issues like “babe we actually have to weed eat over right here.”
So behind the scenes, whereas we’ve been sharing movies of Japan and tales behind how we’re rising our new enterprise, I’ve been packing up the home.
And in a couple of weeks, we’ll turn out to be full-time nomads once more…this time, with two youngsters in tow!
In so some ways, the previous 12 months of our lives has felt like undoing and revisiting all the selections we made within the tumultuous 12 months that was 2020. It’s been our 12 months of promoting off the outdated companies, shedding the home, and chasing after the issues we love most in life.
It appears like hitting the play button after having life on pause for a bit. Effectively, not on pause, however simply after a slower season.
Heath and I each have fears about what we’re entering into. Having a house to come back again to after travels has felt extremely comfy for us. Nevertheless, we’ve at all times dreamt of spending prolonged time overseas, so why not do it now?
Our plans are comparatively fluid, however we do have two main commitments for the upcoming season of our lives:
1. Two weeks in a motorhome within the UK.
We’re SO pumped about this journey. We’ll be doing a visit partnered with Brit Stops (suppose Harvest Hosts however in England 🍻 ) the place we’ll be touring across the backcountry of London and overeating fish and chips (Heath particularly is happy concerning the final half).
2. Spending our fall in Portugal with a program referred to as Boundless Life.
A 12 months in the past, a few of our buddies spent three months with their youngsters in a program referred to as Boundless. It’s for digital nomad households. There’s a college for the children, a coworking house for us, and many neighborhood occasions with different households.
We did our diligence on the college and determined to provide it a strive, so we’ll be residing in Portugal for 3 months this fall. 😬
This isn’t the primary or (most likely) the final time Heath and I’ve blown up our life plans in favor of journey.
Life is brief.
We need to take full benefit of touring whereas we now have our well being and the power to spend high quality time collectively as a household.
Should you’re nonetheless right here on the finish, thanks a lot for being part of our little on-line neighborhood. The emails we obtain from you all imply the world 💜
See you around the globe,
—Heath & Alyssa