We never intended to stay in Santa Cruz, California long before pushing on, back to our travel life. We’re just making a fuel stop, we told ourselves and anyone who asked. We needed one or two years to put money back in the bank, take a break from homeschooling our kids, and rest from our oftentimes seat-of-the-pants style of travel. We needed to hunker down and plan for longer, slower, more purposeful travels. That was the intention, anyway.