When people hear that our family lives apart, the first thing they usually think about is distance. What they don’t always see are the costs layered on top of it. Travel costs are the obvious ones. Plane tickets. Gas. Hotels. Rental cars. Fees that add up quickly. We’ve spent thousands of dollars not on vacations, but on short reunions squeezed into school breaks or long weekends. Every trip is calculated and budgeted down to the last detail. Then there’s time. Time off work