What About Healthcare?

A very common question we get asked is, “What do you guys do for health insurance?” The short answer is… Nothing. Once you leave the USA, healthcare becomes much cheaper. It’s actually affordable. Most doctors and dentists, that we’ve come across, have all trained in the USA or Western Europe prior to moving to wherever …

Vehicle Insurance and Registration

Many people would be surprised at how the insurance industry works outside of the United States. There are a couple of countries that you can insure your personal vehicle and have the same kinds of coverage as you would have in the USA. However, those vehicles have to be 10 years old or newer or …

Communications Abroad

  Do you ever have those times when you just want to disconnect from the world? Where you just want to turn your phone off, switch off all your electronic devices and just decompress? Yeah, us too. With the amount of information at our fingertips, sometimes it’s good to just disengage, unplug and unwind. When …

Money Matters!

Nobody likes talking about finances, well hardly anyone. In the USA it’s pretty taboo to even speak of money in conversation. However, in this post, I’m going to address some issues of money matters while traveling abroad and help inform you readers of what you can expect if you’re planning on visiting another country and …

What About Sex?

When we tell people that we’re traveling the world in this ambulance over the course of the next 8 years, a very common question is what we do about having our adult time and how to have sex in such open and close quarters. The answer? It’s difficult. Constantly having to be quiet, or not …

Are we Programmed to Fail?

What Does “Failure” Look Like? So often, we as American’s have been told, you work hard, study hard, get into a great college and the universe will open itself up to you. Is that really true? The reason I ask is twofold. First, factually the universe has been open up to anyone who can physically …

Searching for a Purpose

After spending the better part of 10 years as a cop and having my career lost due to an injury, I was left with a gut wrenching decision to make. That decision was “What do I do now?” See, I never thought I’d lose my career, after all, I’d spent countless hours in college and …

It’s the Little things

In the last 10 years, Bronson and I have traversed 16 countries, countless cities and most of the states we actually care to visit. We always travel lightly, so any time we’re flying, we take a carry-on backpack. If it doesn’t fit, it doesn’t go. I’m 100% impatient, well maybe now I’m like only 96% …

Leaving the “American Dream”

          8 Years Global Who would be crazy enough to leave great paying jobs that allow 2 months of vacation every year, a brand new custom built home and a community where the kids can still be kids and ride their bikes a mile or 3 to a friend’s house without …