Opening the Aperture
Laura PayetteWe’re a family of four (2 adults and 2 teens) from the Western US (mostly Colorado and California) who hit pause on the life we knew to explore the world and broaden our perspective. Follow us here and on IG at @openingtheaperture.
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Beginning to Register the Enormity of What We Did
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I happened to have mentioned to my dad that I’d be bringing some items back to California and he made it clear that there wasn’t room in their closets and our stuff wouldn’t keep well in the garage, since it...
Change Is Afoot in the World
Last week I woke up to the election results in Serbia and Brazil. As I made coffee in the kitchen, I started crying. The kind of tears that feel soul cleansing. Like you’re offloading an elephant you’ve been carrying on your back without ev...
Opening Our Unintentional Time Capsule
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We positioned ourselves in the bit of shade available and dove into our storage units with gusto, each of us taking a vault. It’s one thing to know in your head what’s inside and quite another to see the item...
Bay Area to Redmond or Bust
Passing through Portland
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Fourteen hours. That’s how long it takes to drive from the Bay Area to Redmond, not factoring in breaks. That’s two hours longer than it takes to fly from Rome to Singapore. I knew t...
Why People Pay for Storage Units Longer Than They Think They’ll Need Them
When we left the US to travel nomadically in fall 2023, we cleared the California house of our personal possessions, leaving a few suitcases of stuff in the loft of the garage, plus some things with my parents. That may seem like we had ful...
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Adventurer and documenter of our family's global travels to broaden our perspective. Departed from: US-California, November 2023. Visited 13 countries in 9 months. Now spending a year in Albania. Follow along! IG: @opening-the-aperture
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