A few days ago, I got word that a fellow traveler, Stephanie Simpson from the UK, had gone missing.  Her body was found on Valentine’s Day (after a five-day search) by...

“Guadalupe is part of France,” our French driver mentioned offhandedly yesterday on our Sancerre wine tour.  “Same politics, same benefits, it’s basically mainland France in the Caribbean.”  Damn, I thought,...

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...

Noosa, Australia I am a guest here, volunteering through a company called Workaway, receiving room and board for 5 hours a day of work…  but it’s hard to call it...

A Trip to Sydney After traveling 53 hours to get to Sydney, Australia, you could say I took the scenic route.  With an unexpected 12 hour layover in LA and...

It was just an experiment… These last 3 months were a trial run in a new lifestyle experiment.  The goal was to be a house sitter up and down the...

“I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious.” –Albert Einstein The word ‘curiosity’ has been getting a lot of attention lately.  So much so, in fact, that it...

Of the 9 different places I lived in by the time I was 22 (including Germany, Florida, California, Colorado, NJ and Pennsylvania), the most extraordinary one has always been our...

“Are you going to move forward?” I looked up from my phone. My internet was suddenly working at top speed and I was absorbed in reading all the Facebook comments from...

According to my travel-tracker app, PolarSteps, in the past 13 months, I traveled 41,698 miles, through 21 countries. My homes consisted of 13 different apartments (one for each month), but...