What are we doing?!?!

Brittany has had this thought numerous times in the last 6 months and has voiced it: Like, what are we doing?!?! Upending our entire life to travel the world, selling our house, vehicles and possessions, home-schooling our kids, kids missing a years’ worth of activities they love (dance, hockey, flag-football), spending a small fortune to make it happen, the loss of that years’ income = $$$$, the logistics in making this happen is painstaking (Planes, Trains, & Automobiles: “Please. Have...

National Lampoon’s Kress Vacation

This wild Griswold vacation idea started many years ago! Shortly after my first back issue in 2016, I purchased a book called Vagabonding by Rolf Potts. It was my first introduction to the world beyond our doorstep and one I knew my family needed to have in the near future. Two back surgeries, one hip surgery and a wife (Brittany) that was dead set against it all led to its delay. Well, the surgeries are behind us, and Brittany (or...

Teacher ✅

“That’s one small step for us, one giant leap for our world trip!” Done and done. Just over 3 years and my Education degree at the University of Regina is in the books. I am officially a teacher! It was an oh-so-distant dream at one point, and yet, here I am. After enduring two surgeries as a student (one back, one hip), and 40 classes total (14 classes passed in my last year), I ended on my internship, now having...

World Trip

There is under a year until we leave for the world trip. I am excited! but I will miss everything, like my friends, family, and sports. although most people don’t get to travel around the world, I am very grateful to experience new things.  we are travelling for 6 months then we are staying in New Zealand for another 6 months. I’m really excited to travel the world. The one place I really want to see is Paris and Bali....

365 & counting

And the countdown is on! Today we would be waking up in Dublin, Ireland! It is hard to imagine, but we are finally closing in on our epic family adventure and it can’t come soon enough. I’ve had a few people ask me, “What do you want to get out of this trip?” Well, I really don’t have a specific goal in mind or the cliche, “to find myself,” as that is something I was forced to find in my thirties…...