I quit my job to travel for a year. Here are 5 things I'd do differently.

Maria Laposata quit her job and traveled around the world with her husband for a year — there are a few things she'd do differently.

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• Maria Laposata quit her job and traveled around the world with her husband for a year.
• Looking back, there are things she would do differently.
• She would have bought a different type of backpack and better budgeted their return home.

I retired at 29. Well, sort of. I took a "mini-retirement" — sometimes called an "adult gap year" ...