Our family dreams of travel. Constantly. We thrive on adventure and seeing new places and hiking and backpacking and canoeing and rafting and snorkeling. We are discontent when it comes to just doing the daily grind. We discuss travel over dinner. We look at maps longingly wishing we could cover more area of it. We reminisce over past trips and discuss possibilities for new ones. We long to travel together more often.
Unfortunately, the bills just don't pay themselves. We haven't quite figured out a way to fund full time travel, so we deal with what we have to work with. We spend the entire year socking away what we can to fund our summer adventures. We rarely eat meals at restaurants. We use coupons when we can. We drive 10+ year old vehicles. We wear lots of clothes from the thrift store. We never go to the movie theater, nail salons, or concerts. We certainly have all that we need and plenty of what we want, but we would all give up all of our "things" for more travel adventures. We have never regretted a single cent spent on travel, but we have many times regretted splurging on unnecessary "things"
This quote on this photo has become sort of my "motto" lately. I have the picture printed and hung on my refrigerator as a reminder. Just there to remind me that another adventure is always just around the corner, and I can do without whatever it is that I am wanting to buy.
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