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When it comes to the ways of love and romance, no aphrodisiac is quite so potent as travel. On the road — freed from the dull routines and restrictions of home — you become more open, more daring, more willing to seize the moment. Away from home, the people you meet (be they locals or fellow travelers) seem … Read more »
I bolted through the airport, dodging slow moving people dragging rolling suitcases.
My flight left in thirty minutes. Plenty of time to get my boarding pass and navigate airport security in the quiet of an early Friday morning.
The lines to the flight check-in counters were empty. I ducked under each fabric line divider and arrived at the … Read more »
Keith Savage of Traveling Savage 
Age: 35
Hometown: Madison, WI
Quote: “The most important lesson for us was the power of a budget.”
The past few weeks have seen a lot of talk of the past, the future and travel. Flux capacitor, Delorian and time travel have been posted in You Tube videos, bantered around Facebook and the stars of Back to the Future even turned up on late night television in celebration of the past actually catching … Read more »
Traveling long-term for the last three years has changed me in many ways. When I take a minute and reflect on who I was before I started traveling, I can only see faint glimmers of that person. As I have wandered the world, experienced other cultures, and tested my limits I have become an independent, free, and well-rounded person.
Travel has opened my heart and expanded my mind. I feel infinitely grateful that it has played … Read more »
This month our friends over at Bootsnall are running a month long Indie Travel Challenge.
Based on the tenets of the popular Indie Manifesto, participants will be asked a question, or given a challenge (or both!) every day for the 30 days of November. Responses will be shared on blogs, and across social media, … Read more »
Becky Ances of Writer. Traveler. Tea Drinker. 
Age: 39
Hometown: Peterborough, NH, America
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.”
Working from a beach paradise, daiquiri in hand, can make living abroad as a permanent beach bum seem easy. In reality, finding a way to create income from abroad can be tortuous. Travel sites post lists of the top 10 jobs that can make working from abroad a reality. While these jobs exist and are possible to get, sipping a cocktail on the beach everyday is not always part of the equation.
A year ago … Read more »
Long- term travelers of all kinds will tell you that one of the most important preliminary steps to taking off is The Purge. That period of time that you devote to deciding which material possessions will still be necessary and dear to your heart after traipsing all over the globe in pursuit of clarity, freedom, connection, adventure, and … Read more »
Lauren had never eaten rice.
Yet she had just purchased a one-way flight ticket to Eastern Europe.
Maybe you’ve dreamed about traveling the world. Ideas of where you’d go, what you’d see, how you’d pack, and those pristine white beaches fill your quiet moments.
But the thought of leaving your comfortable life and its solid routines scares you. It’s an huge world and despite those jaw-dropping beach photos, you’d be tackling this vast unknown-ness by … Read more »