Plan big, Dream bigger
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Merry Christmas!
When you and your kids live in three different states, you need to make every second count when you are all in the same place at the same time! Emma and her boyfriend Ed will be traveling to Japan over her holiday break from school, so there is no better time than the present to…
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Reconnaissance Missions
Before we decided to list the house, we talked about where we wanted to move if and when we sold it. We knew that we wanted to move to a warmer climate and be closer to the ocean. But where? So many options! We wanted to be fairly close to an airport for ease of…
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Sunrise, Sunset
Cue the Fiddler on the Roof music… Two of my favorite times on the beach are sunrise and sunset. Peaceful and serene. Time for reflection and gratitude. Moments in time that seem to happen in slow motion and yet if you blink it’s over. Today when I was alone at the beach watching the sunrise,…
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Refrigerator Magnets
Leaving your house with all of its personal touches to go on the road is strange. Each place that we are traveling to has been viewed online too many times to count to make sure it is the perfect place for us and Sunnie. But each place lacks one thing–our personal touch–family photos hanging on…
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Step 3–Say Goodbye!
Step 3 was to say goodbye to family and friends. This was harder than we thought. Our house had always been a great house for parties and we enjoyed hosting numerous holiday parties, fall bonfire parties, slumber parties, cocktail parties, and tea parties. We would entertain up to 100 people at our annual Fall Bonfire…
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Step 2–Sell the House!
Step 2 was to list and sell our house. We had no idea how long this process would take. Would it be a month, six months, a year? When our friends and family said “your house is going to sell so fast” we laughed it off and didn’t believe them. We knew our house was…
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Step 1–The Purge!
Our process for taking the leap and following our dreams took about four months. Step 1 was to declutter, organize and purge! It is truly a “freeing” experience to purge your possessions. We felt like all of our stuff which we accumulated over the past 26 years of marriage was bogging us down and distracting…
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Hello!
Welcome to our blog! We are Jim and Jill Frey AKA the Free Range Freys. We are empty nesters or as we prefer “bird launchers” that sold our house in Pennsylvania, on September 15, 2023, gave away most of our possessions, and started on a travel adventure. We will be traveling for the next 6…
Empty Nest Travel with the Free Range Freys 