At some point around the middle of last year, it occurred to us that the need to pay for our house and all the stuff in it was keeping us from doing what we truly loved – being together as much as we’d like, living a simpler life in touch with nature, having a plethora of new experiences, meeting and helping many more people, making spontaneous decisions based on how we felt on a given day, and living our own adventure instead of just following the conventional and “safer” path in life. We were trading away the best years of…