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    Family Gap Year Post #9: A Plan Takes Shape

    Trying to plan a Family Gap Year during an international health crisis is quite a trip (pun intended).

    A tentative plan is taking shape. None of this has been 100% confirmed at work, but you know I like to plan, even when it’s not 100% certain! Here are the details in case you are interested:

    1. Matt and I would keeping renting out this house. We have had a tenant in that house for more than a year now, and she wants to stay.
    2. Starting in June, we would rent out the house we are living in. Our neighborhood has an HOA that prohibits short-term rentals, so we will find
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    Family Gap Year Post #8: Planning Begins (Again)

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    Those of you who have been around these parts for a while know that I was planning a Family Gap Year to start in June 2020.

    We all know the punch line to that joke!

    Now that Matt and I are fully vaccinated and our children are nearly vaccinated, we are talking about the possibility of a Family Gap Year again, starting next year.

    Here are the things that are different from our original plan:

    • We would go to only one country instead of 13. This change makes me the saddest, but I just don’t feel comfortable traveling all around the world spreading germs right now. We can get
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    Family Gap Year Post #7: Starting Over

    So the big Family Gap Year is officially completely unraveled! I’m not quite sure why I put an exclamation mark there. Maybe because it was a lot of work to unravel it and I’m glad I was able to get it finished? (Because I am definitely not excited that the trip is dead in the water.)

    Every month, we would save money and book an AirBnb. We had booked them in rural Ireland, a small town in the French Riviera called Antibes, a more rural part of Norway outside of Oslo, the hills of Tuscany, Florence, a small medieval town in Croatia, a beachside town in South Africa, a beach … Read More