When we came home from our third and “final” round the world trip in 2009, we never thought we’d do it again until retirement. That trip was kind of our last taste of freedom, our last hurrah, before settling down to the real world of kids and a mortgage. So, here we are, seven years later with two beautiful kids ages 2 and 4, a mortgage, decent cars, and even some quality furniture in our bedroom in place of the cardboard boxes that we had used as nightstands for as long as I can remember. Yep, we really are living the American dream in our picturesque California coastal town. The problem is, when you have traveled like we have, completely free of ties and worries, seeing the world with nothing to your name but the contents
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