In early May I plan to launch on Iron Pig (my touring bike from REI ADV 1.1) starting in Westfield IN on a journey to Fairbanks Alaska. This is my first Vlog to document the adventure and also work on blogging skills!
That is a great question…
I know, scary! In all honesty I did quit my job but only after spending approximately two years preparing. Preparing means saving, 
and to this end we accumulated savings in cash sufficient to cover one year with no income plus another 25 to 35 percent emergency funds for the unplanned events in life like basement floods (yes this did happen and will be title of subsequent blog “Headwinds”).
Two days before Mark and I left on our trip, we were in Michigan for a family wedding. Our niece was married on a sunny but teeth-chattering cold day. We were lucky because both Amber and Jesse were able to attend (although our son-in-law Andrew could not), and we all did the 5-hour drive together.
That’s bonus time, because it almost never happens anymore. We had 10 hours of drive time over the course of that weekend to chat and laugh and chill with our kids.