Before embarking on our trip, we promised to share our expenses with you. On some level, we don’t want to do this because we know any money discussion is fraught with peril. However, we also know that having actual dollar figures is very helpful in determining when/if you can afford similar travel and how much…
who are the watsons?
We are a 30-something married couple who decided to leave behind our home, careers and comfortable Silicon Valley lifestyle to try a new course. Join us as we travel the world to learn about other cultures, lifestyles and ways to generate income beyond the traditional 9-5.
Category Archives: Travel Preparations
The power of FREE
Sometime in the middle of last week, Brian and I hit a wall. Neither of us is what you would call a detail person. We’re best at planning an overall strategy or figuring out how elements fit together into a larger system, and we struggle with keeping track of the little things. When you undertake…
Moving Day
Today is moving day. Movers are arriving at 9am to carry our must-have items to our new storage unit in Sunnyvale. As we’ve shared, our original plan was to sell most of our belongings, keeping only sentimental items and things that don’t have any resale value (hello, Tempur-Pedic mattress). But we’ve had trouble selling big-ticket…
43 Hours in Paradise
Brian and I just returned from a quick trip to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. The antithesis of our travel style for the big trip, our Mexico hop lasted just 43 hours and served to activate our international health insurance (which requires departure from the U.S. / Canada within 30 days of initiation). It also provided…
The big purge
For the last several months, we’ve been telling friends and family not to gift us with anything. No presents, no hand-me-downs, nothing… Our goal has been to cut down our possessions to the bare essentials (or to the we-can’t-part-with-this-for-sentimental-reasons level), so inviting anything new into our homes was undesirable. Before the end of the last…
