So for those of you who may be wondering what we are up to, my husband Joe and I came to the decision that he should leave his demanding law job and take some time off to figure out a better way to live our lives.  We decided that we wanted to try our luck and travel for awhile, even though we have two very young children.  We know children thrive on familiarity and routine and we have chosen to try it out anyway. We currently live in Houston, Texas but are selling our house and the plan is to figure out where it is we want to be and what it is we want to be doing over the course of our travels.   We don't have an exact plan yet of where we are going to travel, when, or by what mode.  We are just going where the wind blows us.  Right now we are at the start of our first big trip to Spain & France.  We will be here for five weeks.    I apologize in advance if my blog entries are about bodily fluids and sleep schedules.  I never said it would be a riveting read.  But I promise that it will be an honest account of our experience.   I hope to inspire my readers to take a chance if they aren't happy in their current situations and are wondering if there is a better way.  And I also hope to offer some on the ground expertise to anyone else with small children who think they might want to try this kind of thing out.  This could be a very quick, failed experiment.  We very well may realize tomorrow or next week that our kids (or all four of us) just want to go home and forget about all of this.  I hope that isn't the case but if it is at least we tried!