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The Siracusas
Age: 35 (Emanuele), 30 (Romana)
Hometown: Siracusa, Sicily, Italy (Emanuele) and Torres Vedras, Portugal (Romana)
Quote: “Every place has a story to tell, you only need enough openness and intellectual curiosity to uncover these stories and delve into them. There are no uninteresting places, only uninterested travellers.”
“‘Don’t go there,’ the know-it-all, stay-at-home finger-wagger says of many a distant place. I have heard it my whole traveling life, and in almost every case it was bad advice. In my experience these maligned countries are often the most fulfilling. I am not saying they are fun. For undiluted jollification you bake in the sun at Waikiki with a mai tai in your fist, or eat lotuses on the Cote d’Azur. As for the … Read more »
Most career break literature out there is focused on the employee who requests a leave of absence from his boss. Rarely is it about the boss who takes a sabbatical from his own business. Inc. magazine had this story: Inside the mind of a runaway CEO.
While most office satire is about the workers being stuck in their jobs, this article illuminates that … Read more »
“One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one’s own, and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.” –Freya Stark, Riding to the Tigris
Sarah Muir and Sarah Hasazi
Age: 24 and 25
Hometown: Portland, Maine; Burlington, Vermont
Quote: “We’ve learned to adjust our definition of wealth to mean time and not money, and this was instrumental in the final decision to quit our jobs and take to the road.”
“It was always like that, I knew, when you set out on a long journey; the classic two-week vacation was never enough time to slough off the dead skin of regular life. In some ways, I’d discovered during years of traveling, home life was like an insulating callus you had to wear off before you could even properly see and absorb the new world around you. I knew that would happen eventually, but meanwhile I … Read more »
Looking for an opportunity to express your sage vagabonding advice?
Are you on or about to leave for a long-term journey, excited to share tricks and tips learned on the road?
Vagablogging is getting a fresh new look, and we’re looking for some fresh new bloggers to join the team. These new writers will post once or twice a week on vagabonding-related topics of their choice, from travel tips to destination suggestions to reviews of travel media. … Read more »
The holiday season is upon us. Christmas trees. Thanksgiving dinners. Holiday lights and decorations. Music. Cookies. Going to parties. Shopping. Giving and receiving gifts.
For many people, with the holidays comes travel. Some go visit family and friends around the world. Others take advantage of the much deserved time off and head for warmer weather in anticipation of the cold winter months ahead. For others, it’s time to dream and wish about that next big … Read more »
“You’ll learn more in your first month of travel then in all your years in school.” I’ve heard this sentiment expressed by many vagabonders far and wide. Nothing will get you as interested in history, geography, art, architecture, economics, politics, and religion as being somewhere else. Names on a map become touchstones for memories and faces of friends made.
Tim Ferriss, author of The Four-Hour Workweek (and former Vagablogging writer!) put down these thoughts in … Read more »
“Traveling with a lover creates a sense of forward momentum where it might not otherwise exist. The relationship adopts the motion of the physical journey, eliminating the risk of boredom and making the travelers complicit. It shows each person in a new, maybe sexier, light. A journey can drive two people apart, as they realize the different ways they handle fender benders and lost luggage. But if it doesn’t, it binds them in a filament … Read more »