Say hello to Henry and Jourdan Ziegler. Please be aware that they do not live a life that remotely resembles yours and read on.
Henry, before he stopped working, was responsible for the “care and feeding of the ultra rich”. As a partner in the prestigious law firm of Sherman and Sterling headquartered in New York City, he looked after the legal affairs of extremely rich clients all over the globe. In his last stint in the workaday world he was the CEO of the American office of Deutsch Bank. To say that he was well connected globally, working like hell and very wealthy himself would be an understatement.
Jourdan Arpelle-Ziegler has had an active art career in the Big Apple and Germany. (see www.jourdanarpelle.com) She painted, she sculpted, she made prints. To say she was engaged with her career and working like hell would also be an understatement.
It happened in 2007. On May 4th to be exact. They quit. Not like play-golf quit or take-up-bridge quit. QUIT! Sold-the-house quit. Gave-their-car-to-his-son quit. Stored-the-bulk-of-their-clothes quit. And just took off.
They spent a month decompressing, doing yoga in an ashram in western Massachusetts and then they stuffed what they had left of their clothes into a Tumi satchel (one each), a back pack (one each), a carry-on bag (one each) and left their old lives behind. They had no place to return to and were not even sure where they would go next. They just went. As Henry put it, “We went from career to creative self.”
A few facts about their life currently. They maintain a legal address and a manned mail drop in New York City. They keep the clothes they are not using in an on-line “closet” called www.garderobeonline.com. When the Zeiglers go to a different climate they send back the stuff from their Tumi satchels they no longer need and get sent the things they intend to use for whatever new temperature zone they will be in next.
So far they have crossed the United States, traversed Asia and flown around the world, stopping where the spirit moves them.
This nomadic duo has been doing this for three years so far. They have no idea when they will stop. Their blog is www.jaztravelweb.com.
Henry misses playing the piano. Jourdan, content for now, occasionally dreams about walk-in closets.
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