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. She even mapped out trips to work on her passion for genealogy, but she passed away from cancer just eight months before that day ever came.That truth haunted me. It reminded me we were all waiting too long—for the grandkids to grow, for the business to settle, for the mythical “right time” that never arrives with a calendar invite.

So, one day, we stopped waiting., a business that sends daily international flight deals to our subscribers, helping them find affordable ways to explore the world. Along with our travel blog,, we created a small income stream that allowed us to continue living our dream. We

, cut our expenses to the bone, and used our savings to fund this adventure. We tracked every dollar and vowed to live with a lot less. After a while, we realized we missed having a "home base" when we returned to the U.S., and the cost of renting Airbnbs was adding up. So we bought a small condo, which we use when we're in town and rent out on Airbnb when we’re not., where we rented a villa with a private pool for $900 a month. We swapped Target runs for market stalls, dinner dates with $1 noodles at warungs, and errands in the car for scooter rides through the jungle to discover waterfalls. At first, it was unnerving. We didn’t speak the language, we had no plan beyond the next month, and we didn’t even know if we’d like it.

But in the stillness, something shifted. We were living with less—and somehow feeling more.

Travel didn’t just change how we saw the world—it changed how we moved through it.“If we're truly pro-life, we should also be fighting for the life of those children who are raped and molested,” said the author of the bill, Democratic Rep. Delisha Boyd, who argued that under Louisiana's current law young victims of rape are forced to carry babies to term.

Among those who opposed the proposed exception was Democratic Rep. Patricia Moore, who spoke publicly about being conceived after her mother was raped as a young teenager. While speaking against the bill, Moore discussed her religious beliefs and said she has struggled with her decision on the measure. Even ahead of the meeting she said she asked God to “show me something in the Bible that can address this.”Moore said in the area of Louisiana that she represents, she is aware of a nine-year-old who is pregnant; “I’m struggling because life and death, according to our Heavenly Father it's in his hands. I’m like, ‘God are you wanting this child... to have a baby? What good can come out of this?’”

“I know we got to protect our children, but to this point right now, I cannot vote ‘Yes’ because I’m constantly hearing that God would take a bad situation and turn it into good,” Moore said.Like Moore, Boyd has