Helene Sula and her husband moved from the US to Germany and later to the UK. Sula started a travel blog in 2011, which enabled their move abroad and travel lifestyle. She realized she didn't want children, embracing a different life path focused on travel.

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You can opt-out at any time by visiting our Preferences page or by clicking "unsubscribe" at the bottom of the email. Advertisement This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Helene Sula , a travel blogger and author of "Two O'Clock on a Tuesday at Trevi Fountain: A Search for an Unconventional Life Abroad." It has been edited for length and clarity.

My husband, Michael, and I were high-school sweethearts . We met at a party when we were 17. We both went to Catholic schools; I attended an all-girls school, and he went to an all-boys school.

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Advertisement They were brother and sister schools, so they would pair up for dances and things like that. I still have the emails that we sent back a.