In 2016, when I was 35, and my wife Courtney was 32, we sold our house, a 4 bed, 2 bath 1,600-square-foot Arizona home, moved into a 200-square-foot Airstream RV with our two dogs, and set up our new home in a KOA campground in Tucson.
It was the first of many big changes for us.
By that point, I had saved about $900,000, enough to give myself some breathing room, and quit a job that I hated in software development. Courtney, a rocket scientist, joined me in throwing off the bonds of a 9-to-5 in 2017, and we hit the road.
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Over the course of the next three years, we traveled across the country full-time, filming videos for YouTube and writing about our experience.
At 42, I’m a self-made millionaire. Looking back, that decision to downsizewas one of the key reasons why I was able to …