April 2007, We've been here almost two years now and feel like we are only partially through our journey. This is our conclusion. We still aren't done yet. For the past three months we have been pushing ourselves to find an answer, to make decisions, to know where we will live, what we will do and how we will earn money ... for the rest of our lives. Well it just doesn't work that way.

I woke up the other night realizing that we have created exactly what we wanted. We have created the open field, the ability to do anything and go anywhere, the freedom we desired. No wonder we can't figure out what's next, we love this freedom. The only challenge of course now is we do have to start earning money and want to move forward with our new lifestyle careers... Okay I say to Jean, here's the answer, calling him from a cafe in Uzes after my Yoga class. "We are still on the journey. Let's not box ourselves in. We don't have to make every decision now. We still need to shed old skins like our house in Tiburon and our house in France. We want to sell both and buy different, new, our dream. But it doesn't have to be now. We are still on our journey and will be for another three years I think.  Recently we read about the couple who took a five year honeymoon. It took Lucy and Peter five years to find the perfect home. Maybe five years is more like it? It feels different thinking of it this way. Phase 2 is about putting our lifestyle careers into action and developing them to support us for the longterm. The house and place will come. It will come...

This feels so much better... I want the journey to continue. I don't want to think of somewhere forever. ...