• When Toccara Best's request for a year off was denied, she quit her job anyway to travel with her husband. • Their "gap year" stretched into five as they kept traveling through blog work and housesitting gigs. • Their son's birth brought them back to the US. Traveling the country with him was easy; returning to full-time work wasn't.

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. We created a tra

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