It's a Gavination

2021-2024

After completing our stint at the ranch in Colorado, we worked a summer position in Alaska. While we enjoyed the seasonal employment, we craved a home base, so we returned to Ridgway, Colorado, and started a business doing ranch caretaking and maintenance.

2020

The “Great Lockdown”—After quitting our jobs in Destin, Florida, we were laid off from our summer ranch jobs in Wyoming due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. We found ourselves unemployed for the spring & summer but were blessed to land a Concierge Couple position at a ranch near Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

2019

In April, we moved from Ridgway, Colorado, to Destin, Florida, to be near family. We worked hard to establish ourselves in Florida for the sole purpose of buying an investment property, which we plan to use as passive income while we work elsewhere. By the end of September, we accomplished that goal. We purchased a lovely 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom condo – with amazing views of the harbor and deeded beach access a short walk away. Here are some before and after photos of our condo.

2018

After 36 consecutive months of travel, we had visited 4 continents, 21 countries, 27 states, and 16 US National Parks. But in April 2018, as funds dwindled, our adventure came to an end. Those three years and the experiences that came from them changed us as people. Our perspective on people, governments, politics, nature, ourselves, our dreams, and our goals all shifted compared to who we were before this adventure. We were determined to settle down in our favorite stateside mountain town… Telluride, Colorado. Unfortunately, we couldn’t create an affordable combination of housing and jobs in Telluride, so we moved down the valley to Ridgway.

2015

By May, just six months after coming up with the idea, we shoved off. At that point, we had sold everything we owned (e.g., cars, motorcycles, house, furniture, clothes, etc.) except the gear we needed to enjoy our adventures. We were left with a PO box, a 10′ x 10′ storage unit, and an eye on the horizon. And so our three years of full-time travel began.

2014

Sadly, our beloved dog Jasmine died on December 20th after 15 years of a beautiful life. As sad as this was, she had set us free. A week after she died, we sat down and made a bucket list of everything we wanted to do… climb all the 14ers in California, climb in Nepal, climb Denali, see Lions in the wild, see the Northern lights, shark dive in South Africa, scuba dive the barrier reef, see the great pyramids… the list went on and on. So we started to list out the best times of year to do things, how much it would cost, and how much we really wanted to invest in the idea.

On August 15, 2014, we got married!

2010

This is the year our adventure together began in earnest. Liz gave up an amazing job teaching in Leadville, Colorado, and moved back to the Denver front range to live with Sean – as he owned a home. This step presented us with new and unexpected challenges, some of which we faced with grace and compassion and some with reluctance and antipathy. But we could work through them by embracing vulnerability and working through our fears, shame, and thoughts that held us back. As a result, those experiences forged us as a couple and as a team. We started a business together, traveled as often as we could, and did countless weekend warrior adventures together, and we solidified the kind of life we wanted to live together.

2007

In December, we took our first international trip together, and over the next three years, we spent time hiking, climbing, skiing, diving, and traveling. We spent endless hours on trails, talking, listening, becoming best friends, and falling madly in love.

2005

Mutual friends introduced us… and our story together began.