I don't know that we ever would have unless we made that decision to leave everything comfortable,

which it was so amazing and comfortable, and move and be pushed and

stretched and expanded in the way that we were.

Hey, we are Shan and Ryan Tripp parents of five on a journey to discover what it takes to raise great humans while enjoying the heck out of life along the way. Sometimes it's easy to let the weight of everyday life, parenting, marriage, finances, get in the way.

But what we've found is that as you break out of the

norm and do life a little bit differently a whole new world can open up to you.

So if you're ready we would love to invite you on this journey with this as we pull back the curtains and have a whole lot of fun along the way

And it's true what they say life's a trip. This is our story. How will you write yours?

Let's go.

Welcome back, listeners.

This is the show.

This is the Life's a Trip podcast.

I'm sitting here next to my beautiful wife. She's looking absolutely gorgeous today,

kissed by the sun, showing a little skin. We are in Hawaii.

Live from Hawaii! Which is why the audio quality may not be quite as good as it is when we're at home and we have our

nice fancy podcast microphones, but we're coming to you real, we're coming to you raw, we're coming to you from the iPhone, voice memo,

this is just how you roll, when you're traveling and you're just trying to...

We have five children, so to carry a podcast equipment is just a no can deal.

We thought about leaving Bow at home and taking the podcast gear but in the end Bow was a

free lap infant on our flight so we decided to take him with us.

So you guys is so special for us to be back here because you know four or five years ago we made the decision

to sell everything and move our family across the ocean to Hawaii.

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