Edited December 2024 Wondering what it’s like to travel full-time? 🧐 Curious about staying in hostels, working in a vineyard 🍇 in New Zealand or volunteering in an orphanage in southern Nepal? How about housesitting 🌏 – would you like to know about this – and other opportunities – for maximizing your travel experiences and […]
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PODCAST: Living The Dream – How It All Got Started
Updated April 2022 If you’re wondering how this “quitting a perfectly good job at a fab company/traveling the world alone and over 50 with a backpack/road tripping across the USA in a VW van” kind of life of mine got started, you should listen to my podcast interview with Cepee Tabibian, the founder of She […]
Hey, Doll! Check Out This Unusual Hike: Crazy Doll Heads in Atlanta
Updated April 2022 When I travel, I like to see the “touristy” sites – after all, that’s what makes a place noteworthy (for the most part). Why go to Paris and forego the Eiffel Tower? Or travel to London and skip Buckingham Palace? But as much as I treasure seeing and appreciating these types of […]
#TRAVEL HACK: Solo Travel: 5 Easy Steps to Get Out There On Your Own
Updated July 2022. “Oh wow. You travel alone? By yourself? Aren’t you scared/lonely/bored?” These questions are asked of me often: Why do you travel alone? Isn’t it boring? Aren’t you lonely? What do you do all day? Why don’t you travel with a friend? (You do have friends, don’t you? 🤔) And always…. I am […]
The Fiery Furnace – 7 Tips for a Successful Hike in Utah’s Arches National Park
Updated June 2022 The national parks in Utah offer so many different and exciting ways to experience their majestic otherworldly beauty. You can hike, drive, photograph, mountain bike, camp, ATV, motorbike or Jeep through these magnificent and amazing places. My favorite way to discover a place is to hike, so… After hiking some amazing but […]
Walking The Way : 8 Helpful Insider Tips and Tricks for a Buen Camino
Tips, tricks and insider scoop to hiking the Camino.
Coastal Hike – Rota Vincentina: Portugal’s Little-Known Stunning Wonder
A magnificent hike along the Southwest Coast of Portugal’s Alentejo and Algarve region – a must do!
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Castles, Caves, Canoeing and the Countryside. The Dordogne Valley.
After four hectic, busy, incredibly amazing famous-art-viewing days in Paris I arrived in the Dordogne Valley via train – an easy, comfortable ride of about 5.5 hours southwest. My friend, Piu, who (whom? Gaah. I never remember which is correct!) I met in Pokhara, Nepal, met me at the station and brought me to his […]
