Work abroad to extend your trip indefinitely Travelers Search for Traveling Jobs Each month about 8,100 travelers search Google for “traveling jobs.” They are searching for a way to balance their wanderlust with work abroad that will finance their globetrotting. Each month, 8,100 travelers look for work abroad, dreaming of getting paid to travel. Imagine…
Traveling With Children: The Diaper Diaries You hear it often enough, biguns encouraging littluns: “Travel while you’re still young! Travel before you get locked into marriage and out of the world. Travel before you are a slave to a mortgage. Traveling with children is like traveling with an alcoholic and incontinent puppy, so travel before you…
It is not uncommon for avid travelers to meet on the road. Since for many a love of travel is a prerequisite, meeting a fellow traveler on a trip assures at least that much in common. But travelers Lisa Niver Rajna and George Rajna’s lover affair did not begin in some far-flung, romantic destination. Like…
Today’s post is a guest post from my traveling amigo Paul Sobczak, one of the most intrepidly unique people I know. I can say with some certainty that some of the strangest things I have received in the mail, was sent by Paul. A few years ago, I wrote about Paul’s I Can Eat Glass and…
Ignorance is not bliss in Antigua; it is dangerous. Antigua, Guatemala has a reputation for being “pretty safe.” But expats who live here and in reality know that “stuff goes down” in Antigua. Things can get real—real fast. People are mugged, more frequently pickpocketed, and in much rarer instances, worse. During three years working as…
Today’s travel tips comes from a Guatemalan friend of mine, Loch Ruiz. Loch’s is originally from Guatemala City, Guatemala. But his time in Antigua, roving with contracting and swelling bands of expatriates, inspired a love of travel in him. That mixed with his natural talent for entrepreneurial thinking has led him to some novel solutions…
I’m planning a trip to Asia this fall. It’s one part of the world my shoes have yet to tread. One thing that I have noticed since adopting a location independent lifestyle is that my trip planning has gone the way of the buffalo. Since I am basically always in a new place to explore,…
“Learning a new language will soon become obsolete because of the advancement of simultaneous translators,” an unpoetic friend once told me. With such a translator, you would speak into a box and that box would translate everything–flawlessly and fluently. My friend dreams of such technology because he struggles with learning new languages. The progression of…
People envy turtles because they do not have an existential crisis every time they visit a neighboring pond. Turtles do not need travel packing tips because a turtle’s packing checklist is simple: 1) Are all my limbs attached? 2) Is there anything nearby that wants to eat me? Like turtles, location independent people carry their…
Let’s admit it. All of us would like a full-time job as a writer working for the likes of National Geographic Magazine. While travel writing jobs likes this do still exist, for most of us mortals, such a dream job is just that. Fortunately, we live in a time where an aspiring travel writer need…
