When travel gets boring
Generally speaking, travel can be exciting, adventurous, and fun, but sometimes it’s mind numbingly boring. And I’m not just talking about 27-hour bus rides and multiple days of air travel. I’m usually one of those in the “only boring people get bored” camp, but lately . . . I think it’s easier when you’re doing holiday travel. When you only have 2 or so weeks to explore a place, I think it’s really hard to be bored. There is so much...
Get Lost!
Don’t take it personally, but yes, I do want you to get lost. When you travel. Why? Some of my best experiences have happened when I’ve tried to get lost. Yes, I try to get lost. By this I mean we head out in a specific direction and take side streets, turns, etc., with no goal in mind other than to discover whatever we run into. Obviously, if I look down an alleyway and the hair rises on the back of my neck, we aren’t taking that...
Two years of nomadic life!
Can you believe it? I can’t! It seems like it was just yesterday when we left the US for Mexico to begin our nomadic life. Year #2 began while we were in Ecuador. Since then we’ve added 8 countries on 3 continents to Tigger’s passport: Ecuador Peru back to Mexico Spain Morocco France Thailand Malaysia back to Thailand and now we’re in Vietnam. For me the highlight of the last year was living on an oasis in Morocco for 2 months. It was...
Rethinking long-term travel
In the last 2 years, we’ve visited 14 countries and over 100 cities, many of them multiple times. While the nomadic life has specific challenges, I’m also coming to terms that I need an attitude adjustment when it comes to long-term travel. Mindset Most people traveling on holiday have a very limited time period in which they have to soak up everything possible before it’s time to leave and return to their normal life. Even people...
Why you shouldn’t travel with kids
I’m sure this title confuses people. You mean you don’t expect to find an article on avoiding travel with kids on a site that deals primarily with family travel? Well, I’ve seen the light. I had an epiphany today while dragging my 11-year-old through temple ruins in the former capital of Siam. It was hot and miserably so. Even in the shade, we still sweat profusely. Sometimes it takes radical challenges to help us be more aware....
Safety for children
We had just finished a wonderful evening with new friends, and we were waiting for the train to take us back to our condo. Tigger was being himself and bouncing around the station when suddenly my Daddy sense went off. My kiddo was fine, so I scanned the area. There were only 3 other people besides our group. That’s when I spotted the source of my discomfort. A man was standing there leering at my child. I’m used to my son eliciting...
