Travel tips you probably won’t find in too many places
There are all sorts of travel tips online. Almost every single travel blogger has done at least one general post sharing their tips. Yesterday Brandy of It’s One World, Travel! and I were chatting, and I decided to do a different kind of travel tips post. Hope they’re helpful to you. Absolute #1, most important tip of all time! Are you ready? Maybe I should save this one for last so you’ll read the whole post and not muck with my...
The travel closet
I’m a big believer about living outside the closet, but travel has really challenged that sometimes.
Unexpected challenges of the nomadic lifestyle
Earlier this week we traveled with some friends to the Perhentian Islands of Malaysia. During our time there, I came to realize there are some unexpected challenges and consequences to this nomadic lifestyle. When people think about the nomadic life, I imagine they first envision people like the Berbers of Morocco and other Saharan countries. Thanks to social media and the Internet, digital nomads is a more commonly known term. We...
Can you backpack with your kids?
The road to reaching your epiphany moment – when you decide to eschew the conventions of a practical, typical life, and follow your dreams – has many different routes. Life-altering changes such as personal health scares, the death of a loved one, redundancy or some other moment of crisis are often cited as the trigger for people to take destiny by the horns and pursue the life they long for. Luckily for me though, I...
Living like a local in Paris and our 1st giveaway!
When planning our trip to very expensive Paris, we partnered with Wimdu.com. We prefer living like a local as much as possible when we travel, and we wanted to give it a try before recommending their service. They provided us with a few nights’ accommodation so we could test it out. We liked it enough that not only would I recommend them, but they’re giving us a $200 USD voucher to give away to one of you lucky people!...
Oh wretched man that I am
Oh, wretched man! I stood in the corner pretending to gaze out of the open window, my face turned away from the crowded room of people. People filled with hope. I clutched my camera against me as I willed the tears to go back up their ducts. I was desperate for a breeze, not just to relieve me from the sweltering heat of the conference room but to also evaporate the damning evidence from my face. I know the power of tears. And...
