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Our Hard-Earned Advice for Downsizing | Full-Time Travel Prep

Ep.112 Viewers have been asking us how we made the transition from living in San Francisco to full-time travel, so we decided to create a series to help anyone who wants to travel more or just simplify for their retirement. In this episode, we talk about our best tips for making these process easier and more stress free.

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Health vs Wealth: We retired early, should you?

Ep.67 Money isn’t the only factor to consider when deciding when to retire. It’s the easiest to focus on, but we think you should consider what activities you want to do in retirement and how health issues could ruin those plans. We share a frank discussion about why we retired early and how our lives have changed as full-time travelers.

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Why are we back in the US so soon?

Ep.31 After a few glorious weeks as digital nomads in Southern Italy, we decided to fly back to California. This wasn’t our original plan when we were leaving San Francisco, but you know how our plans don’t always go as planned.

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Living in Limbo! (But we want to be in Europe)

Ep.22 Join us as we sit on a beach — with the Golden Gate Bridge as our backdrop — and discuss how we’re going to get to Europe. We’ve planned 3 different paths and received plenty of signs that we should pick one now and go faster. But various life events keep holding us back from moving forward.

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Are we oversharing?

Ep.21 We try to share both our successes and our failures in our videos. By keeping it real, we hope to make real connections with you, our viewers. But how much sharing does it take to turn it into oversharing? In this episode we try to answer that question.

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Cappuccino Time - A Sneak Peek

Finding Gina Marie is moving to Saturdays at 8 AM Pacific Time. Here's a sneak peek at this Saturday's episode, where Judy and Kevin use a cappuccino break to slow down the day and enjoy time together.

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A pause to share an emotional moment

Ep.18 At the end of March, 2023, Kevin will be the same age his dad was when he passed away. When he realized our plans will overlap that date, it triggered a flood of emotions. We felt we needed to pause our downsizing and share this moment with you.

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This is the easy stuff? 50 years in 5 suitcases

Ep.17 This episode is about getting rid of the things we’re not using daily or just don’t love. The limitation of 5 suitcases is a good plan, but since we don’t have our European destination finalized, emotions still come into play. Some of this turned out to be harder than we had expected.

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First contact with my birth family using 23andMe

Ep.7 Only a month after returning from Italy, DNA results led to first contact with a cousin. Soon after that, the floodgates poured open and more family was connected. The best was yet to come when Judy listened to her voicemail. Episode 7 is packed full of special moments… including finding Gina Marie.

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A Surprise in Italy - 23andMe Results

Ep.6 While traveling in Italy at the end of 2019, Judy got an email with some amazing 23andMe DNA test results. In this episode, we talk about what led up to this moment and share pictures of our trips to Rome, Florence, Milan, and Venice. Finding Gina Marie was suddenly closer than we ever expected.

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Downsizing our lives - Houston to San Francisco

Ep.5 We decided to flip our lives around 180 degrees and move from our multi-car, 6 people in a house, lifestyle in Houston to a new biking/walking, apartment-dwelling, empty nester lifestyle in San Francisco. Not only did we have to change every routine in our lives, but we accidentally set ourselves up to be much closer to Finding Gina Marie.

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