Travel and vacations

Those five weeks were absolutely incredible, but also exhausting and frustrating. Though there were many lessons taken from that time, one stuck with both of us the most: the chasm between travel and vacation.

So many of our friends expressed how jealous they were of our five-week “vacation.” But I can assure you, this trip could not have been further away from that.

The word vacation connotes relaxation -- the type of trip where no alarms are set, you have no responsibilities and no worries and you have people doing things for you.