{"id":10100,"date":"2016-02-12T00:31:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T08:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tillthemoneyrunsout.com\/?p=10100"},"modified":"2016-02-12T06:16:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T14:16:05","slug":"what-we-have-learned-after-five-years-of-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tillthemoneyrunsout.com\/what-we-have-learned-after-five-years-of-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"What We’ve Learned After Five Years of Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"

We used to be the type of people who started things with intention, people with an idea of where we wanted our paths to take us. Five years ago that all changed when we headed off on an adventure with very few intentions past seeing what there was to see on our savings before settling down to “adult life.” We had no timeline in mind, and when a family friend asked us incredulously “why?!” we wanted to travel the world we didn’t even have a solid answer. Now we find ourselves looking back in wonder at the path we ended up following.<\/p>\n

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Photo on 2012-02-12 at 08.25<\/p><\/li>

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Ubud 2016<\/p><\/li><\/ul><\/noscript><\/div>\n

Today, we are in Bali celebrating an anniversary. It has, amazingly, been 6 years since our first date, 5 years since we started traveling full-time, and 4 years since Tom proposed the last time we were in Bali<\/a>. I never expected to still be traveling five years later and it has put me into a quite a reflective mood, thinking back to that goodbye dinner five years ago and how I would now answer that question. <\/p>\n

Why do we travel?<\/h3>\n
We travel because we want to live a life we love. For us that means not being tied down by schedules or specific days of the week. We\u2019re free to go where we want, when we want. We are free to spend our days working on projects we love; relaxing in a hammock, playing with some new friends, or hiking to explore ancient ruins. We are free to book flights on a whim. Heading to Greece to get my wedding dress made<\/a> or to Mexico to eat as many tacos<\/a> as humanly possible. We are free to spend time in a place exploring a passion; like yoga teacher training, glass blowing, kite boarding, or to spend way too much time in front of our computers for weeks to work on our business. Our schedule is dictated by what inspires us, not by specific hours of the day, days of the week or months of the year. <\/p>\n
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