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Age: 34
Hometown: Peterborough, NH
Quote: “Most of our problems arose from our connections to our hometown. On the traveling side we had problems every now and then, but it is just easier to roll with it.”
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Age: both 28
Hometown: Thom’s hometown is the market town of Shrewsbury, Sean’s home town is the capital city of Wales – Cardiff
Quote: “Looking forward to not thinking about tomorrow.”
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http://blogs.bootsnall.com/malia
Age: 30
Hometown: Honolulu, HI
Quote: “When I returned home, I not only appreciated what a beautiful place it is, I also was able to see my hometown through the eyes of a traveler. This was an entirely new way for me to view my own community.”
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Age: Late Thirties
Hometown: Vancouver, BC
Quote: “This is my dream, let me live it.”
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Age: 30 (Kyle), 27 (Bessie)
Hometown: Chicago, USA
Quote: “It’s hard to travel just for the sake of traveling; there needs to be some other goal or reward beyond seeing all the sights there are to see. Eventually sitting on a beach will get boring and you’ll want to do something more valuable with your time.”
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Age: 32
Hometown: Toronto, Canada
Quote: “The best way to understand a culture is through its food.”
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Age: 37
Hometown: New York, NY
Quote: “I knew exactly enough to have a great experience.”
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Age: 25
Home: Boston, MA
Quote: “Taking this trip is as much about seeing and doing things as it is proving to myself that I can do it.”
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The wonderful website Traveling For The Young, Fabulous, and Broke has an article entitled “The Motivation for Long Term Travel.” This interview series profiles 11 long-term travelers, and is packed full of useful, inspirational, or interesting links.
The most interesting part for me was the inclusion of children in this vagabonding lifestyle; when I was a kid, I was a kid with a single mom, and all my other friends were kids with single moms, and so it never occurred to me that other people might actually have TWO parents. Similarly, with all this talk of vagabonding for solo travelers or vagabonding for couples, we forget that kids can go vagabonding too…or that vagabonders can conceive and give birth abroad! While it might open you up to some interesting legal issues (where is your child a citizen of? where do you get their birth certificate or passport issued from? what about places where home schooling is illegal, like france? what about health insurance?), it’s still out there.
Obviously I know there are some well-known vagabonding families, but it’s just nice to see more. And obviously, nice to see more websites, resources, and profiles of totally nice, friendly, normal people to keep us happy in our vagabonding path.
http://thetravellerworldguide.com
Home: Ontario, Canada
Age: 25
Quote: “There is only so long you can talk about your dreams of traveling before you have to stop talking about it and actually do it.”
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