The back story leading up to this travel adventure...
We have been planning this trip for over 18 months. We wanted to do it the year after Elizabeth's dear mother passed away (partially because it was a reminder that life is relatively short and traveling to Portland every other week for more than a year while working full-time took a huge toll on her). Our son, Martin was a Senior and he wanted to (understandably) graduate from Bainbridge schools. So we decided to wait until Martin graduated and spend a year preparing for the trip.... Herman gave away most of his landscaping clients in the summer and fall of 2019. This way he could concentrate on fixing and finishing things that needed to be done on our property in order to either sell or rent the house. Elizabeth requested an unpaid leave of absence in January 2019 which our school district can grant for a year. Herman did a lot of research by taking books on early retirement and travel from the library as well as listening to countless podcasts about nomadic living, early retirem