• At long last, Aloha from Hawaii!

    It’s official, we’re here! After years of discussing something  like this and deciding on Jan 1 that we were going to go for it, it’s great to finally arrive. It was a long, long day, with a 3:20 am wake-up call and a 6 am flight out of Dulles.  A…

  • Here we go!

    Following your dreams can scare the crap out of you. It doesn’t look like I’m having the time of my life, but I did about 2 seconds after this skydiving photo was taken in Oahu last year. For the jump, all the hard work was done at the point you…

  • A Random Motivational Boost

    Just over 3 weeks to go and the final blitz has begun.  It’s really crazy trying to get everything squared away. I happened to be searching through photos tonight and came across this one. Kirsten and I took this while eating dinner in Kailua-Kona in January when we went to…

  • How “The 4-Hour Workweek” Freed Our Minds

    For years, Kirsten and I had dreamed of doing something different with our lives. We didn’t know exactly what that something was, other than we wanted to live somewhere new, get more adventure in our life, and be more entrepreneurial / less dependent on the “corporate world”. Beyond the aspirations,…