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Hola. Bonjour. Ciao. Namaste. Welcome to my blog – thanks for joining me on my travels! I hope you learn, laugh and more importantly – go do stuff after reading this.
You’re probably wondering how this crazy life of full-time travel began…
In 2016 I took a leave of absence from my awesome job in Colorado as a national software and sales trainer and joined two friends to backpack an incredibly gorgeous and rugged 130-mile hike in Ireland – The Kerry Way. My very first through-hike! After that, I stayed in Europe for 3 more months and visited the Amalfi Coast and Greece with friends, then traveled solo (at age 55 for the first time EVER!!) to Portugal, Morocco and Spain, staying in hostels (for the first time EVER!!) and meeting people from all over the world.
I was a changed person… I returned to my job in Denver but couldn’t get the travel bug to stop biting. So…I quit and headed out the door with my trusty backpack in December of 2017 to continue traveling, spending 4 months exploring Southeast Asia: Laos, Cambodia, 
Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Nepal, and Bali.
That same summer, I got my first house-sitting gig – a two-month caretaker position in Tuscany!!! at a haunted 15th-century villa.
When that ended I continued traveling – I kayaked in Croatia, hiked in Montenegro, floated in a hot air balloon at dawn in Cappadocia, paraglided over ancient burial sites in Madagascar, volunteered in an orphanage in Nepal, walked the Portuguese Camino, swam in the Ecuadorian Amazon, housesat in Australia on the Sunshine Coast, worked in a vineyard in New Zealand, snorkeled with a shiver of eagle rays in the Galapagos…and haven’t stopped yet!!
In the summer of the pandemic I bought a VW campervan 
and headed east by myself, driving along the coast to Maine. I (safely and carefully) visited friends and family, drove along the Blue Ridge Highway, saw the Liberty Bell, frolicked with the wild swimming ponies of Chincoteague, did wine tastings at the vineyards in the Finger Lakes region in Upstate New York and stayed for a month hiking the gorgeous state of Maine, celebrating my 59th birthday in Acadia National Park.
In the fall I took off for warmer climes: Mexico. I enjoyed exploring Oaxaca, Taxco, Cuernavaca, Puerto Escondido, Guanajuato and Mexico City, renting a tiny studio apartment in Coyoacan – Frida Kahlo’s neighborhood for a month, and then I headed south to Columbia. In Medellin I spent 3 weeks in a Spanish immersion school and then adventured around for another month or so to Bogotá, Jardin, Salento, Jericó and more!
For the summer of 2021, I dusted off the VW van (her name is Tilly) and drove 7,000 miles on my own from Colorado through New Mexico and Arizona and up the West Coast to California, Oregon and Washington, thoroughly loving the Olympic and Hoh rain forests, the redwoods, 
Big Sur and so much more, and crossed by ferry to the San Juan Islands where I camped for a few nights.
Next came a month in the very interesting, delicious and welcoming country of Georgia and from there, a month in Cyprus exploring archaeolgical ruins, 
beaches and villages in the mountains; then Portugal for another visit – this time, to scout areas in Porto for finding an apartment… and to begin living there in October 2022. 🇵🇹
After living and loving and exploring the heck out of Portugal for almost a year and (finally!!) obtaining residency through their D7 visa, I pivoted…I packed up my apartment in Porto to travel full time for a few more months – to Sweden, Denmark, Scotland, Czechia, Poland, and the Galapagos Islands and Ecuador. 
I moved to Umbria in January 2024 to have my Italian citizenship recognized and get the coveted maroon EU passport!!
Wow! The things I’ve seen, experiences I’ve had, the people I’ve met and places I’ve been these last 6+ years of full-time travel have been amazing, educational, awe-inspiring, humbling and magical.
Join me as I learn, hike, drink wine, get lost, figure it out, drink some more wine, explore, take amazing photos and get lost again a few more times (it’s what I do!)
I’d love for you to follow me on Instagram and Facebook.
I post there pretty regularly – lots of pix and inspirational quotes to get ya out the door!
Thanks so much for finding me, following me and hopefully, picking up some valuable travel hacks on where to stay and how to save money, great ideas on where to go and how to make it happen!
Obrigada, merci beaucoup, madloba, dhan’yavada, gracias…
Cindy
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“For once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.”
Pat Conroy