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.
Hawaii
My husband Jim and I honeymooned in Hawaii. It was magical for so many reasons. Not only because we arrived two days after our wedding, high from the excitement of having our closest friends all in the same room and feeling so loved and so celebrated, but because Hawaii feels like magic. The vibrant colors of the plants, fruits, and vegetables, the wildlife, the sounds of the ocean – the fact that, even though it is a very popular tourist destination, we found ourselves alone on beaches or volcanic trails more often than we could have imagined. There were many magical moments that I still think about 15 years after that trip. But one moment – one special moment, magical moment – I think about almost daily.