5 Things Everyone Asks a Travel Writer
Sunday, January 20th, 2008 Posted in Family travel, General, Work/Life/Travel Balance | 6 Comments »"What do you do?" It took me a few years to get to the answer I wanted, but I was pretty darn excited when I could start truthfully answering, "I'm a travel writer." Now that I've been answering that ...
The Cheapest Places to Live for Retirees
Thursday, January 17th, 2008 Posted in International living/working, Work/Life/Travel Balance | No Comments »The last post ran down some cheap rent cities to live in the U.S., but of course you can do better if you look abroad, especially if you can qualify for retirement benefits. If you subscribe to International Living, you get ...
Cheap Rent Cities in the U.S.
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in Destination reports, Family travel, General, Work/Life/Travel Balance | 1 Comment »There's a silver lining to this housing price decline in the U.S. if you're a renter or a buyer: cheaper prices to get in either way. If you live in Manhattan though, going from $3,000 to $2,950 for a studio ...
Travel Leftovers for Lunch
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 Posted in General, Perceptive Travel, Work/Life/Travel Balance | 3 Comments »I've got three article deadlines staring me in the face this week. Where did the holidays go? So it's time to do the lazy man's blogging trick and point to other people's hard work... Brazen campaigning. Apparently I've been nominated in ...
In Praise of Doing Nothing
Thursday, December 27th, 2007 Posted in General, Work/Life/Travel Balance | 2 Comments »In my book Make Your Travel Dollars Worth a Fortune, I tried to lead each chapter off with an appropriate quote that went beyond the Mark Twain norm. There's one from the Chinese author Lin Yutang that I particularly love: If ...


