We are Rachel and Al. In July 2021, we both retired from jobs we loved to begin the next great adventure in our lives. We hatched the plan as an interesting idea to talk about, far in the future: someday we want to live in a different country each year, for a full year, for ten years. Now the future is here! Our kids are grown and scattered, our health is still good. We seized the opportunity presented by an early retirement offer to fast-forward the time frame, sold nearly everything we owned, and here we are, exploring the world, one country at a time. COVID has surely complicated things, but, like everyone else, we have learned that things can change in an instant, and we just need to adapt. If you’re interested in following along with our adventure, sign up below! If you want to learn more about us, click on About. If you want to learn more about the plan and how we launched it, click on the links to other articles we’ve written. And if you want to catch up on where we’ve been and what we’ve seen and learned along the way, check out our Blog and Photo galleries (above).
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An Unexpected Guest
Nobody plans to get sick. As a person who assumes good health, and typically ignores any indication to the alternative, I suppose I was especially ill-prepared when I started to feel like I was dragging my heels through Buenos Aires’ famous Recoleta Cemetery. I even found myself apathetic about seeing the culminating site of our…
Weather Patterns
“There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing,” said my son’s preschool teacher many years ago during a particularly foul Boston winter. At the time, bundling up my three-year-old like the Michelin Man, I nodded in agreement. Now that I am living the life of a perpetual traveler, I am not so…
Glaciers, Fjords, Cliffs, and Penguins
Patagonia is a place where geological time is what matters; where we are scurrying ants next to the power and scale of environmental forces. It’s a place where mountains are still growing, ice-cold rivers run Caribbean teal, and ancient glaciers are still in motion. It’s a place that calls to people around the world; where…
Seeing the World, One Year at a Time 