Is it possible to feel homesick for a place you've never been to?
If you could afford the best schools in the world for your kids would you feel like you would be short changing their life by sending them to one?
My--or our--answer to these questions is "yes."
Daddy-o and I have been talking (a lot) about moving to Idaho for sometime now.
Here in Tucson we feel limited by our space and in Idaho, if done right, our only limitations will be ourselves. How awesome would that be!
We feel that teaching our children how to sustain themselves is more important than a college degree. That piece of parchment may provide them a paycheck to buy the essentials but why not cut out the middle-man and just get them yourself? Not to mention that they will be an indentured servant for that piece of paper.
If we teach them how to be sustainable with their own hands and off their own land they will never have to rely on others to keep them fed, clothed and covered by shelter.
These feelings and ideas are nothing new. It's what our great-grandparents did. It's what they had to do!
In searching the Internet this past week we found our dream home and land. It's only $800,000 over our budget so yesterday I hit up a Circle K for some lottery tickets. Actually, I expect to be there weekly now.
Unless we come into a windfall of money we know this dream of ours will take many years before it can all come together but everyday we will wake up and stay on our path that will take us to Idaho some day.
Here in Tucson we feel limited by our space and in Idaho, if done right, our only limitations will be ourselves. How awesome would that be!
We feel that teaching our children how to sustain themselves is more important than a college degree. That piece of parchment may provide them a paycheck to buy the essentials but why not cut out the middle-man and just get them yourself? Not to mention that they will be an indentured servant for that piece of paper.
If we teach them how to be sustainable with their own hands and off their own land they will never have to rely on others to keep them fed, clothed and covered by shelter.
These feelings and ideas are nothing new. It's what our great-grandparents did. It's what they had to do!
In searching the Internet this past week we found our dream home and land. It's only $800,000 over our budget so yesterday I hit up a Circle K for some lottery tickets. Actually, I expect to be there weekly now.
Unless we come into a windfall of money we know this dream of ours will take many years before it can all come together but everyday we will wake up and stay on our path that will take us to Idaho some day.
These photos capture part of the every day life we want for our kids on our dream property.
We just got back from a camping trip in Challis Idaho, it's so beautiful there. I could see myself buying some land in the mountains we were traveling through and living happily ever after off the Salmon river.
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