A How-To Guide for Worldwide House Sitting Have you ever thought of house sitting while traveling? Global house sitting has become an exciting and cost effective form of travel- and it's worth looking into. Its benefits include living like a local, having a home with amenities, potentially Continue Reading Babysitting on Kangaroo Island (and other adventures) Where is Kangaroo Island?
My 2nd Workaway experience was on Kangaroo Island, a remote island in South Australia that few Australians could locate and even fewer have visited. Because of its geographical isolation and expensive ferry, this island with a wild past Continue Reading When Summer Means Winter: Health and Wellness in Córdoba, Argentina The Southern Hemisphere is starting to grow on me. There’s more ocean mass than its northern counterpart (20% more), creating an overall milder climate. With less land (50% less) and only 11% of the world’s population, there’s less pollution. All Continue Reading Bears in Alaska: Advice from a Passing Stranger Turnagain Arm below, Windy Point trail ahead
On a very narrow hiking trail overlooking Turnagain Arm, arguably the most scenic highway in the US (a stretch of road from Anchorage towards the Kenai Peninsula), I met a guy named Continue Reading A New Zealand Love Song The nighttime howl of a hound dog kept me awake last night. It pulled at my heart strings and sent my own dogs (Chewie and Rula, my house sitting mates this week) barking. It was also a keen reminder that Continue Reading A Metal Flower, a Cemetery, and Dante’s Inferno: Welcome to Buenos Aires Floralis Genérica
What does a metal flower, a cemetery, and Dante’s Inferno all have in common? The answer: Buenos Aires. A blooming 105-foot stainless steel flower comes to life every morning at sunrise; a spectacular cemetery of Continue Reading
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Posts from 1+ Years of Travel
50,000 miles, 23 countries, 5 continents... and almost 2 years later. I've left the corporate world (and the US) to experience life.
I woke up to the most unusual sound one morning. It was tapping the mopane leaves and the calcium-rich rocks. It was bouncing off the chalet roofs and flooding the...
A red hartebeest wandered onto the the airport highway as I drove back to Windhoek. I slowed down the truck and smiled, imagining the cars behind me with passengers new...
“Connecticut,” I said under my breath, looking up from a bag of onions I had slung into my shopping cart in Opuwo, Namibia. The 20-something represented fall in New England:...
“Sossusvlei is magnificent. It’s spectacular, it’s home to the highest, most beautiful dunes in the world. It is all these things, but really, Sossusvlei is indescribable. You must see it...
I snapped out of my daydream to feel the car coming to a stop. I had been hearing Afrikaans for hours as we bumped along a corrugated dirt road, dust...