(Relaxed) Travel Is Good for Your Health
Monday, October 31st, 2005 Posted in General, Long-term travel, Work/Life/Travel Balance | No Comments »"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live." - Author Lin Yutang When we are toiling away at our jobs, trying to make a living and dealing with all ...
Charities Block Famine-Relief Savings
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005 Posted in General | No Comments »If you want to read something that will make smoke come out of your ears, pick up a 10/26 issue of the Wall Street Journal (not on line, but available in most libraries) and check out the first page story, ...
Do Your Homework Before You Travel
Monday, October 24th, 2005 Posted in General | No Comments »If you go to the Caribbean during hurricane season, should we still feel sorry for you? Here we go again. All weekend the U.S. news channels were showing stories about poor sunburnt vacations hunkered down in crowded government shelters in Cancun. ...
Yo, What About Guatemala?
Wednesday, October 19th, 2005 Posted in Destination reports, General | 1 Comment »As the fine blog at Worldhum noted last week, coverage of the natural disaster in Guatemala has been conspicuous in its absence, especially in the media of its almost-neighbor to the north, the U.S. Courtesy of the Tyndall Report, here's a ...
Money for Travel - a Matter of Priorities
Friday, October 14th, 2005 Posted in Long-term travel, Work/Life/Travel Balance | Comments OffWhen I got back from my first trip around the world, after spending 12 months circling the globe, the questions from friends and family were amazingly predictable. "What was your favorite place?" and "How could you afford to travel for ...
