'The logical part of me knew this feeling could just be part of 'adulting,' the realization that the bloom can’t stay on the rose forever. But the voice inside me that I'd learned to listen to to get me the career I had said I needed a breather.'
I’d been working full-throttle since college, and my career in TV had turned out better than I’d ever imagined. I’d moved to New York at 21, landing an entry-level job at CNBC at the height of the tech bubble. I worked my way up to a producer position, then made the jump to network news as a senior producer for Good Morning America at the age of 30. I worked with Diane Sawyer, and later Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos, and was part of the team that took the show to number one.
So that night, when he asked, “Should we go travel?” I didn’t hesitate. I pictured a year of uninterrupted dates and going to sleep at the same time.To be clear, I didn’t want to eat, pray, or love. I wasn’t in the dark days of a breakup, and my job hadn’t ended. I didn’t need to find myself. There was no crisis , but I knew that a preemptive strike was needed. A pause for pause’s sake. It wasn’t so much an epiphany as that internal voice, telling me this was the right thing to do.
We sublet our apartment, packed up our things, and by January 2015 we were on the road. On my last day at work, I set an auto-reply for my emails that said, “I’m out of the office, taking a trip around the world.” This remains my favorite use of email ever. For the 13 months that followed, we traveled to 26 countries on six continents, everywhere from the Amazon to Patagonia to the Sahara and Siberia and New Zealand. We spent a month living on an olive farm in the mountains of Mallorca, where we learned to herd sheep and received room and board in exchange for six hours a day of manual labor around the property. There wasn’t another house in sight, and at night the mountain went completely dark.
Somewhere in the back of my mind, I decided I’d be back to work within a month of arriving home, and it was go time. Reality had other plans, and I did not start a job that month or for the rest of that spring. Looking back, it was the universe telling me we weren't ready. After 13 months away, we were shell-shocked to be back home. We sat on our newly moved-in sofa and stared at each other. Big grocery stores were jarring. We didn’t want to see friends. It felt like depression.
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