Travels with My Mortgage
My blog is called Travels With My Mortgage because my one consistent travel companion in the last 11 years has always been my house payment. I didn’t start traveling extensively until I was in my early-30s, after my husband I had bought a house and we had a monthly payment. Behind all my travel stories around the world is a wonderful home, a finanical obligation, and decisions about how we can budget our lives so that I could follow my passion.
Morocco
When my twin sister Erin and I turned 30 in the summer of 2012, we started a tradition of traveling together every five years to celebrate our birthdays. The first trip was a two-week trip to Europe to celebrate our passage into a new decade. The second — in 2017 for our 35th birthdays —I decided that we would travel to Morocco and Senegal, and to make the trip extra special for Erin, I did my best to keep the location a secret. The first leg of the trip was from Washington, DC to Casablanca, and I made it my personal goal to try to see if we could get all the way to Africa without her knowing where we were vacationing.