About
We had a good life. We wanted a different one.
We're Curtis and Ericka. We spent years building demanding careers, a marriage, a family life, and the kind of stability we once worked very hard to reach. Changing Orbit began when we admitted that success did not have to be the end of the story.
Two people, one next chapter
The thing we wanted most was not an RV, a retirement plan, or a list of destinations. We wanted more of our life to belong to us together — more conversation, more adventure, more laughter, and more room to decide what mattered next.
We do not always agree on how to get there. That is part of the story too. The goal is not to look polished. It is to build a stronger life together and tell the truth about what that takes.
Curtis
Curtis is curious, analytical, and happiest when he is learning something new. He is drawn to the freedom of a life with fewer outside priorities and more shared adventures.
Ericka
Ericka keeps bringing the question back to the relationship: are we listening, deciding together, and actually enjoying the life we said we wanted? Sparkly shoes are also part of the answer.
Before and alongside
The life behind the redesign
We are carrying a lot with us: decades of work, mistakes, discipline, family, friendship, habits, and a marriage that has had to keep evolving. Reinvention, for us, means deciding what still serves the life ahead and what we are finally ready to set down.
Prior chapter
We are proud of what came before. The careers, responsibility, and hard-earned experience are part of the energy we bring into whatever comes next.
Shared life
This is the part we care about most: being outside, talking, laughing, cooking, walking the dogs, trying new things, and learning how to do life together instead of beside each other.
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