HOW AND WHY WE'RE LIVING ABROAD

And how you can do it too (even for a short time).

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Good Morning!

I’m writing from a new perch, three months into our stay in Hungary. I’ve moved my desk to the street side of the attic, overlooking the village. With the skylight cracked, I can hear the children playing in the schoolyard. It’s tíz óra, or ten o’clock snack; Mátyás will be eating the buttery sonka (ham) I packed him, between two pieces of soft bread, with the warm kakao (hot cocoa) the school provides.

I see a tractor hauling massive, story-book-sized pumpkins from the fields toward town. The villagers pass beneath me, stopping to chat at our doorstep, where I gather only every few words. 

The rhythms of the village soothe me. 

We won’t be here much longer, and every day I struggle to capture it all in photos and words. I shuffle the important aside for the urgent, then shelve it all and dive back into our life. It’s all happening so fast. We are growing by leaps and bounds every day. 

Whenever I’m on the other side of this story–when I see someone else traveling the world, living the van life, world-schooling their children from a hut in a remote village in Australia I think: wow, that’s wonderful, but…how? 

Really, how are they doing it?

It’s no surprise that we’ve heard from a number of you over the last few months with this very question, so if you’re curious about doing something like this (spoiler alert: I highly recommend it), I’m taking a minute to share how it’s working for us–with full disclosure–as a jumping off point—below.