"When one of my favorite graduate school professors died just weeks into her retirement, it hit me: I didn't want to spend my life working toward a future I might never get to experience. 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."
"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. By June 2015, we had about $40,000 in the bank, walked away from our lease, and flew to Prague on one-way tickets."
Toccara Best began her career as a high school counselor while her husband worked remotely as a self-published author. They used school breaks to travel and started a travel blog, ForgetSomeday. A requested year of leave was denied, so they quit, cut expenses, sold belongings and saved roughly $40,000 before departing on one-way tickets to Prague. They traveled through Central and Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia, funding extended travel with blog income and housesitting gigs. The intended one-year gap grew into five years. The birth of their son brought them back to the United States, where traveling with him was easy but reentering full-time work proved difficult.
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