Out of the Comfort Zone

Hi. I’m Amy. In the summer of 2016 I packed our belongings into storage, sold our two cars, rented out our house and moved to a foreign country where we did not speak the language, didn’t know anyone, had never even visited the city before.  We had very little possessions other than our luggage from the plane and 3 large boxes that I sent ahead of us.  Our 2 cats came, too. Living outside our comfort zone was the motto of our adventure.  We were away for 2 years but we’re back in our California house now.  In that time, we traveled abroad 11 times, by every means of transportation (including EVA Air’s Hello Kitty Jet!), and we discovered that the world is big and wide, yet the coincidences we stumbled across made it feel small and wonderful.

In 2 years we traveled all around Japan, from Hokkaido in the north, to Okinawa in the south.  We went to Malaysia, Bali, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, South Korea and Taiwan.  My sons also went to Italy, the Philippines and additional school trips to Malaysia, Vietnam and South Korea.  I planned all of our travel.  I learned a lot about traveling with a family, about booking travel for myself and others, and about the vast educational opportunities that traveling brings.  I want to encourage this passion for travel in others.  I want to plan amazing trips and learn about places in the world through other people’s eyes.