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Moving to another country can feel stressful, overwhelming and exhausting. Moving when you have little kids makes it even more so. But moving abroad is also a huge adventure that comes with so [...]

January on Travelocity! Every month I use my 20 years of travel experience to write for aggregator giant, Travelocity. They call us the Gnational Gnomads. These are excerpts of those stories. [...]

If you are reading on from my previous article about the 7 Startling Realities of Nomadic Travel you would realise that nomadic travel isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. I explained how hard it was [...]

Note: This started out as a very large piece including the pitfalls of nomadic travel. I ended up splitting it for your reading pleasure. So enjoy part 1. Part 2 can be found here.   Perhaps [...]

The wood door stood wide open inviting me into the lush sanctuary held within. It’s open invitation tempting me to step through into another world. Sukhavati Ayurvedic Retreat Bali. With one [...]

Walking the streets of New York – 22,000 steps. 3 days at Disney World – 72,000 steps. Hike to see sunrise – 30,000 steps. Dengue fever – no food for 3 days. If you gain weight on vacation, then [...]

Pastries at breakfast. Food on the run at lunch. Leisurely dinner with plenty of cocktails before and after. It seems so easy to let your week of vacation indulgence turn into months of hard work [...]

I don’t understand these people. They are foreign and strange. But I admire them. If you gain weight on vacation you are not alone you can see why I do here or check out all the other people that [...]

These people feel me. They are honest and real and well, let’s face it, they enjoy all the food delights the world has to offer. They gain weight on vacation too. If you identified with my last [...]

As I stepped on the scales I was afraid to look. The numbers kept going up and up. I closed my eyes and breathed. Behind my closed eyelids the last five years of nomadic travel taunted me. [...]