By now it’s no surprise to our closest friends and family that Tim and I are planning to sell our home after the holidays. What they are surprised at is our plan beyond that. See, we’re lining our ducks up in a row so that we can live a life untethered for…well, we’ll see how long, but we’re thinking maybe as much as a year. So we’re charting a course for 2010.
What will that look like?
Our plan is to sell one of the cars and any of the “stuff” for which we will have no further use (think: Formal dining room furniture! Lawn equipment!), grab Felix (our cat), and just go. Initially to coastal Maine, a place to which we both feel spiritually connected, but we also plan to see the old classic baseball parks, national parks and monuments, and explore both coasts and as much as possible in between, traveling throughout this great country of ours.
One of the “ducks” we’re lining up is a “portable” business we can take with us wherever we go. Much of the consulting work we do should translate well into a virtual business model, and we’re contemplating other online businesses that would complement our personal interests. More on that later as our plans develop.
We have a “home base” in South Philadelphia, a home we purchased with our daughter a couple of years ago in which she now lives. Depending on how things work out, we may decide to live there periodically throughout the year (in short bursts—in case our daughter happens to read this post, I don’t want to scare her!), in between trips to wherever our imaginations take us. Tim will photograph the spectacular, interesting, and unusual, while I record the whole adventure in prose. I suspect there could be a book in there somewhere, but at the very least a legacy of words and pictures for our daughter and (maybe someday) grandchildren so they will know—really know—who we are/were.
I don’t honestly know if we’ll ever buy another home and live in one place full time. We’re not rich—far from it—but we’re passionate about pursuing this dream we’ve held for over 20 years now.
As they say: If not us, who? If not now, when?
I hope to gather a tribe around this blog who will follow us to parts (as yet) unknown who will want to learn and grow with us. But more than that, I want to be able to show you—not just tell you—that it can be done. You can “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, live the life you have imagined.” (Thank you, Mr. Thoreau!)
Stay tuned—2010 promises to be interesting!
Trackbacks/Pingbacks