It’s been one year since we released the site!

Well technically, it wasn’t THIS site, it was Fmy401k.com, which is still live under that domain but currently on hiatus/under eventual-renovation (the name didn’t work for the direction we decided to go with this site, but it’s too cool a name to give up!).

But for all intents and purposes, one year ago today we started our website for the trip.

We had “come out” to all parents about the trip, to Ray’s work, and my job required only the typical two weeks’ notice so I’d not yet told them, but it was close enough to the end that if they did catch wind of it, it wasn’t the end of the (saving money) world. And so we could FINALLY officially announce our trip plans to our friends and the rest of the world, and we did it with middle fingers turned up loud to the gutter-bound economy, and to taking the prescribed safe and acceptable route for our lives.

We were pretty angsty in those days.

You would have been too, if your biggest, proudest life-project to date felt like your “dirty little secret”. I’m sure most anyone else who has planned a big long-term trip knows how it feels.

But things have changed since then, as has the itinerary, and the site. We’re not angsty anymore, we’re just happy. Really, really, really happy. And we wanted to wish the site a happy 1st bday and thank everyone who has supported it and us on this great journey.

There is still much to come!