"I started my career in education as a high school counselor. My husband, Sam, was a self-published author who could work from anywhere, so we took full advantage of my school holidays and long summer breaks, jetting off to new places whenever we could. We created a travel blog, ForgetSomeday, to share our stories. But the trips we took during school breaks left me yearning for more, and I approached my husband about taking a year off from our careers to travel full-time."
"We decided to move forward with our plan anyway, not wanting to wait until retirement to make this dream a reality. Over the next year, we slashed our spending and saved more than $30,000 by cutting out anything nonessential. We sold our car for $5,000 and brought in a bit more by selling smaller items, storing the rest in a 10x10 unit because we thought we'd be gone for just a year."
Toccara Best worked as a high school counselor while her husband Sam wrote remotely and they traveled during school breaks, launching the travel blog ForgetSomeday. After a favorite professor died early into retirement, she sought a year off but was denied due to budget cuts; they quit anyway. They saved aggressively, sold a car, stored belongings, and left for Prague with one-way tickets in June 2015. A planned gap year stretched into five years sustained by blog income and housesitting gigs. The birth of their son brought them back to the U.S., and returning to full-time work proved difficult.
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