TRAVEL+WORK+PLAY

As a kid, I wore a life jacket when I was learning to swim. I thought it was the only thing that kept me from sinking and I was reluctant to take it off. In adulthood, the careers and "normal" lifestyle that my wife and I had built were beginning to feel a lot like that life jacket. They were keeping us afloat, but holding us back from a more fulfilling life together. Like the life jacket when I learned to swim, the house, our 9 to 5 desk jobs with 24 hour obligations, and the lifestyle we'd grown accustomed to needed to go.

We made a plan to live