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I met my wife, Cece, in 2014 at a music-video shoot in Austin. A mutual friend invited a group of us, we got talking, and we had our first date the next night. Loading audio narration… Two weeks later, she flew to Australia. After nine months of long-distance, she moved…

Three years ago, my partner and I packed everything we owned into a bright yellow campervan and decided to live on the road full-time.Since then, we’ve been to 49 states and nine Canadian provinces and territories, and have experienced once-in-a-lifetime moments along the way.The experience has been overwhelmingly positive so…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Matthijs van der Ham, 44, an architect and woodworker. For seven years, he and his 13-year-old son have lived in Minitopia,’s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. This piece has been edited for length and clarity.Seven years ago, when our landlord told me the apartment…