What happened to our Etsy shop when we took a five week road trip? Well, if you have followed our blog (and read Should you put your shop on Vacation?), you'll know we don't close our shop when we go on vacation. Yes, we leave our shop open and keep the income coming while we're gone (after all, someone has to pay for our vacation, right?).
My better half retired last year (thanks to our Etsy shop) and we had so many plans for traveling here and abroad (again, thanks to Etsy) since we had no time constraints – we could go wherever we wanted whenever we wanted. …