We didn’t just up and decide to take this trip on a whim. Actually we sorta did. But it had atop our bucket lists for many years.

It started, for us, when I helped put together a panel discussion of several local families who had done this very thing. I pretty quickly decided this was something I wanted to do, someday. Then I made Adam attend the discussion, figuring (correctly) that it would plant the seed in his mind too.

I fantasized about what we’d do and see and experience while hanging out the laundry. We’d kick it around on the plane home from every vacation we ever took. And every time we had a major event, like a job change, or the realization that we were starting a new era of parenting, we would talk about how that affected this someday dream.

Then one day,

I also blame these guys, who went first and made us think it could be done:

http://worldtripfamily.com/

http://onebageach.com/