After we got married back in 2010 my partner Natalie and I quit our jobs with the intent to travel the world for as long as we could get away with.
We ended up starting a startup together in Morocco, applied to YC from Luxor in Egypt, got accepted, moved to Mountain View and spent the next three years running a startup before getting acquired.
It kind of ruined the honeymoon!
Natalie wrote up the full story here: https://blog.natbat.net/post/61658401806/lanyrd-from-idea-to...