Feeling fragile and searching for an anchor, husband and wife, Brian and Liz, are back in England, trying to find a short-term rental in Bath.
They tackle the scary financial reality of their married nomadic life and why they believe spending savings on making memories with their young adult kids is worth every penny.
This is (once again) a deeply vulnerable episode, where Liz shares how a hurtful YouTube comment landed on the very day she was driving to see her brother for the first time since their dad’s funeral, and in turn, sparks a crucial conversation about the real-world impact of our words online.
We hope you enjoy this raw, real, and uplifting look at the cost of living without a fixed address and where to find home when you need it most. We also give you our individual and private husband and wife diaries at the end of the podcast.
Thank you, as always, for being here with us. You are what makes this podcast so special.
My heart beats with yours.
Kia Kaha.
Liz and Brian x
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There’s a feeling you get when you’ve been traveling for months. It’s not homesickness, exactly. It’s a deep, weary longing for an anchor. For a place to close your eyes and know, truly know, you are safe.
This week on the podcast, Brian and I get real about that feeling. We’re back in England, housesitting in a mini-Somerset mansion that feels like something out of a fairy tale, yet we’re feeling fragile, unmoored, and desperately searching for a place to call home for the next three months.
We share the scary, expensive reality of securing a short-term rental in Bath, the town where our kids were born. We talk about the sheer bravery (or madness?) of spending our savings on memories instead of security, and why we believe it’s worth it to be present with our young adult kids now.
But this episode is about more than logistics. It’s about the moments that give us whiplash: from being recognized by a lovely fan in a quiet mall when we felt most invisible, to receiving a deeply hurtful comment on a video where I openly shared my grief.
I open up about lying in bed, trying to recapture the childhood feeling of safety I lost when my parents passed away, and Brian shares the one sound that always makes him feel at home.
This is a conversation about the cost of living nomadically—not just financially, but emotionally. It’s about finding home in your heart when you don’t have one on a map, and choosing to believe that the love and the memories are worth more than any pension plan.
It’s raw, it’s real, and it ends with a simple request: please be kind with your words. You never know what battle someone is fighting when they read them.
