Preparation. My life has been all about it over the last 16 months. Now, as we stand on the verge of heading out on our imminent journey, the number of responsibilities is finally waning, and the space and time for relaxing into the experience is thankfully beginning to gain purchase. The planning for this adventure has amounted to the single largest collection of related responsibilities I have ever taken on in my entire life. For…

I had been contemplating the possibility of traveling around the world with my boys for a few years, dating back to just after my wife died in early 2014. I held the notion close to my heart, but yet far enough away from my head so as to allow a sense of excitement to rise without being attached to any of the myriad external realities of making it happen. That was not something I did…