What Started This Journey

Back in May of this year, my finace (at the time) came home from work more upset than she had ever been. She had been unhappy with her job for some time, and was hoping to make a change after our wedding. This day, however, was the breaking point. Over the evening, we finished some updates to her resume, and sent it to a single traveling physical therapy website.

Now, we had discussed traveling before. Traveling physical therapists are used to help hospitals and medical facilities when they need a short-term fill-in for a permanent position. The most common reasons for a traveler include a temporary fill-in after a full-time employee leaves, or maternity/paternity leave. We have enjoyed traveling for leisure since we started dating, and figured that this could be a great alternative for her to work and get paid to travel.

We both went to work the next morning, thinking very little of what we had done the night before. When I picked her up from work that evening, she was extremely excited. During the day, she had received phone calls from five different recruiters for travel health care companies. We went home, and had 5 more emails as well.

Over the next month, we did our due diligence regarding each of these groups. Each of them had different benefits, offered different locations of assignments, and offered differing levels of compensation. During this time, we spoke with her co-workers and peers who were familiar with traveling, trying to find out what the downside was. The consensus that we came to was that the downside was the traveling required of it.

You may ask, then, how does this relate to this blog? We have tried not to eliminate too many locations from the places we are willing to go, because we believe that you can do anything for 13 weeks. We thought it would be sting to document our travels, and the things we notice as a result.

The other side of this lies in the fact that as a result of going with her to these assignments, I am going to be rapidly unemployed. My current employer will allow me to continue to work remotely, while they search for a capable replacement for me. So, at some point in the coming months, I will definitely be unemployed.

While my job training would allow me to take traveling assignments as well, coordinating these would be extremely difficult. So you will also see posts from time to time about how I am earning money, and how we are transitioning to a single income.

I am really hoping that these experiences will be enlightening to us, and that you'll find our writings to be interesting.