One of the chief reasons some people curse / hurl soda cans at folks who travel extensively is the assumption that travel cost Megabuck$ unattainable by the average lad or lass. While sometimes this… [Read More]
Trip Planning and Packing
Reactions to a RTW Trip, or: Shaddap!
What happens when you tell someone you’re going to take the next eight or more months traveling around the world? Spin the wheel of reactions… where will it land? A. Denial: “You’re not really… [Read More]
Call for topic requests!
A major goal of mine during this trip is to create written pieces that are both useful and interesting to an audience of: friends, family, former students, former coworkers and their current students, and… [Read More]
Why Each Destination?
Before New Years, I knew I was going to take the coming year off to travel, but the plan at the time was to live in Barcelona, Spain (simply because I heard it was… [Read More]
How the RTW Ticket was Born, or: How You, too, Can Finagle an STA Deal!
Being commitment-terrified, I planned initially to do this Round the World stint through last-minute-purchased one-way legs along the way. Stumbling, sunburned, at 11pm to a travel agency in Cambodia to purchase a trip to… [Read More]
Intro: WHY Around the World?
Testing, testing, tap-tap-tap… Thus begins my first full blown Mama-Kahuna BLOG! The reason: After 6 years teaching high school English in Boston Public Schools (more on this wonderful time later), I have saved enough… [Read More]