A squircle is not quite a circle, yet not quite a square. Our journey promises to be more than circling the globe – not quite a vacation and not quite house hunting but a combo that will be an adventure. 

I’ve decided to blog about the next months of my life because we will be going through some significant changes. This experience may be interesting to share, or could be shockingly boring for the spectators.  Worst case, though, I’ll have a great record for myself and I’m hoping this exercise will keep me in better contact with my faraway friends during the upheaval. 

A little bit about me: I was a corporate and US securities lawyer for the last 14 years, specializing in the insurance and reinsurance industry for the last 10.  (Sounds exciting, doesn’t it?!)  For the last 8 years I’ve been lucky enough to live and work in Bermuda. I’m married to the world’s best (and most patient) husband (affectionately known as AD) and we have two adorable Labrador Retrievers.

I loved the adrenaline of closing a big deal or solving a complex problem so it would be easy to surrender to inertia and continue on here as a corporate lawyer in a beach paradise, but it’s time to pry the Crackberry from my hand and seek new experiences.  

And so the adventure begins. We are selling most of our belongings, giving up our house (and its water view :( ) and traveling around the world to have fun and decide where we want to live next.  AD works for himself and can continue working anywhere that has electricity and high speed internet.  I resigned from my job and will try to decide what I want to be when I grow up.

The blog’s subject matter will likely be all over the map, literally and figuratively, but these are a few things that I hope to explore:

  • the emotional rollercoaster of selling most of our belongings and realizing that we won’t have a place to call home for about 6 months (liberating and downright scary all at the same time!);
  • trying to live an eco-conscious life while on the road and learning from the eco-consciousness (or lack thereof) of the places we visit (and yes, I’m well aware of the fact that air travel alone puts me in a big hole to start);
  • new career ideas, and especially exploring this heretofore unknown concept of  work/life balance.  As a related matter, reigning in my shoe and clothes shopping so that I don’t have to work to support the shopping.  What can I say, I’m weak in the face of fashion;
  • prospects for a new place to call home;
  • different perspectives and opinions we learn about as we travel. Not only in the places we go, but I’m hoping that my amazingly diverse circle of friends (or should I say squircle of friends:) will comment with abandon on the blog so that we can see experiences through different sets of eyes;
  • living out of one suitcase for an extended period of time. Seriously. See above re fashion…

 So stay tuned and share this time with us as we squircle the globe. 

September 9, 2010