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‘We Came, We Saw, We Left’ Takes Us On One Family’s Gap Year Adventure
By Carson Vaughan
January 31, 2021
In 2015, my wife and I renovated a ramshackle travel trailer and toured the Lower 48 states one week, one campground at a time.
It was the most rewarding year of our lives, and yet our adventure seemed to polarize everyone who knew about it especially the baby boomers. They either encouraged the idea, wishing they had done something similar before their health had failed or their life had grown too complicated, or they wrote us off with patronizing jokes about freelancers and millennials, wishing they had done something similar before their health had failed or their life had grown too complicated.