Blog posts about United States.

My father in law described our travel segments using the word ‘jaunt’ and I love it. I’ll be using that from now on — well, at least for as long as we continue our current cadence of traveling for 5–6 months at a time and returning to the US during the spring and again in the fall.

On our second transoceanic cruise we’ve now had more opportunity to experience using them as a means of transportation between countries. We’ve also gotten to experience two different cruise companies. This post is about our experiences so far and my feelings about these cruises.

Maybe we just weren’t gone long enough? Maybe we just heard too many warnings. But our first time back to the US after 6 months of nomadic travel was… not strange at all.

I have to start this off by recognizing the incredible, absolutely incredible amount of privilege we have been graced with in being able to have experienced this adventure. Yes we made significant sacrifices in order to make this happen, but being healthy enough, wealthy enough and fortunate enough to possess a passport that was welcomed by the places that we visited are all paramount to having made this possible. Not to mention the incredible facebook communities that helped us to learn and plan this journey of a life time.

The last month or so of our time before leaving the US for extended slow travel around the world has been filled with hundreds of goodbyes, some forever but many only temporary.

Financial Independence, Retire Early movement.