New Chapter

I did not expect it. I didn’t even anticipate it. To change our lives entirely in 2 months, but we did. On June 7th, my husband was downsized with all the rest of the Americans at his corporate position. So it goes in business – one day you are in, another day you are out. I took to the bed for a day and hatched plans. I’m good at hatching plans.

I remembered the best move we ever did was getting rid of all ‘the stuff’ and moving across the country in 2010. From Colorado to back home in Vermont. We had thought of moving down to Costa Rico, but the kids were little and needed proper schooling. Costa Rico was not going to work. Thus we stayed in America and went back to our roots in Vermont. We moved onto Shelburne Farms. A place both of us had visited in college and over the years since. It was magical. Kenny and I loved it. The kids hated it. Typical.

Fast forward 13ish years, including several more cross country moves and we found ourselves in a big, old, blue house in Keene, NH. A nest. A lovely nest painted and adorned with our lives. Yet it was a nest we no longer needed. The kids needed flight. The nest was costly, yet oh so valuable. The nest needed a new family to caretake because life was calling us to a new chapter.

It was time to ditch the nest and fly ourselves.

And then I remembered an old dream. A dream of living abroad. Probably the only life regret my husband and I had was neither of us studied abroad in college. Well, why not now? Sell it all and hit Europe. Why not go? The dream spoke to me loud and clear – GO!!!! It’s just crazy enough to work. I can write and take pictures. My husband can work remotely in the outdoor industry. We just have to be creative. Well, we’ve got that in spades. Who doesn’t want to chuck it all and GO???

Well, we did. The nest went under contract in one day. We ‘closed’ on August 3rd and on August 12th we flew to Copenhagen. Here we are. Tucked into a brand new day. Come what may…