Paying attention to your partner’s family and friends will improve your relationship, and we’re not talking about sucking up to the in-laws. As we’ve traveled around the world we’ve discovered that our attention to details has heightened dramatically. We pay far more attention to conversations, to the people walking by, and to the scenery around us. […]

Editor’s Note: This personal essay is from Kathleen Fordyce. She looked to an old joy to solve a new pain and found her way back from a devastating loss. Just a few months ago I was sitting in a windowless office, my leg twitching as I took a break from work to scroll through some […]

One thing our journey has taught us is to pay attention – mostly because everything is new all the time when you travel for a living. We have to make decisions every single day on lodging, transportation, food, and activities. In cultivating this habit of paying attention, we’ve had a side benefit of losing a […]

If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear. ~ Roberto Bolaño When you continue to stretch your boundaries, try new things, and morph yourself into the person you want to be, you’re going to draw more attention than the average Joe. And with […]

We’ve watched a volcano erupt, rode camels through the hot Gobi Desert, and weathered a Force-12 storm in the unpredictable Drake Passage, but none of that prepared us for our scariest adventure yet: Returning to the US at election time. We’ve been asked repeatedly since our return to the US about reverse culture shock, and […]