Thanks for your thoughtful note, and for sharing your own feelings and processes. Am so glad this resonated with you. Regarding making travel a priority, it’s as easy (or as difficult) as making the little (and big) choices here and there to make room for what you feel matters most.

Upon reflection, awareness of how all those decisions you make along the way are connected to one another and also connected to whatever larger goals you’d like to achieve is especially important. Often times, we make decisions by default — regarding how we spend our money and our time — without even realizing it. That’s dangerous to what we really aim to achieve in this life.

Thank you for re-igniting some thoughts on this important topic. Good luck to you and all the best on your journey!

Reading this article is good timing for me because I am getting married soon and my wife and I have both decided we want to make travelling a priority. I only hope we can stick to our ambitions, compromise, and make things work, just like you guys did. I would love to one day be able to sit down and write an article about our amazing adventures.

Good luck on all your future travels!

WIll do, Aaron! Glad to hear it and thanks for your support.

Thanks, Tina. Glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks, Izy. No shortage of upcoming trips, it seems. Stay tuned!

Mike, I know. You nailed it. We’re nuts. Bona fide. And it is a Disney script. I just struggle to consider which one. Maybe The Jungle Book?

Big gap between what we think we “get” and what we really get. If there’s something the human race has a weak macro and micro view of, it’s risk.

As for careers and such, we often forget that risk is double-edged. Just as we evaluate the risk of leaving, we ought to evaluate the risk of staying. Always. Not easy, as it means we have a lot of intersections to negotiate and navigate in our lives.

It seems to me that the parsing of anything for two is geometrically more challenging than for one. On the up and down side.

Thanks, as always, for thoughtful considerations!

I mean, who in their right mind would give up a life of reassuringly predictable sorta-comfort for the chance of wild happiness and personal growth through adventure? What is this, a Disney script?!

Risk is a funny thing. The more you explore it, the more likely it is to flip on its head. Making a career travelling the world? Sounds like a risk – but you’ve interrogated yourselves in this post and in others, and you identified other, far less obvious risks that outweighed the chance you were taking in leaving your jobs. That’s smart. You’re good at explaining it, but it’s a hard thing to do, because risk is so often seen as an obvious thing that everyone “gets”, so nobody thinks about it too hard. It’s assumed to be self-evident.

Parsing risk for two people? I have problems enough doing it for myself, so my hat is off to you.

(It’s a nice warm hat and it’s pretty cold today, so, high compliment.)