How is it that you can go on a trip around the world, enjoy incredible foods and a relaxed lifestyle, and still manage to lose weight? Well, the secret is not in the travel; it is in the habit that long-term travel creates. You can easily [...]
What is it like to travel around the world? (Reader Questions)
August 16, 2011 By 31 Comments
Most people are curious about someone who lives a completely different life than they do. I know we are. So it isn’t a surprise that we get reader questions about our experience traveling around the world. Instead of answering these one by one, we decided to start a video series to share these responses with [...]
How to see the world by house sitting
August 12, 2011 By 79 Comments
House sitting! Our email inboxes are overflowing with questions on how to see the world by house sitting, and we can see why you guys are so interested. House sitting is a great way to see the world, meet new people, and learn to live like a local in some of the most amazing places [...]
Learn the secrets to the good life: meet new people
August 8, 2011 By 35 Comments
Editor’s Note: This is part 1 in an 8-part series on How to Live the Good Life. Interested in more? Sign up for our Try New Things email list. We’re going to help you walk the talk! You may recall in our first exposé that we spilled the beans on the 7 reasons we live the good [...]
Welcome to Brussels, Belgium
August 1, 2011 By 28 Comments
Ah, the land of beer, frites, and chocolate. What’s not to love? We arrived in Brussels last week via the Eurostar after our 3-month tour of the UK. We loved our time there, but we are happy to be back on unsteady feet again, grappling with the language and customs of a new country. It’s [...]
Learn the secrets to live the good life
July 26, 2011 By 58 Comments
Editor’s note: This is the first post in a series on how to live the good life. Check the links through this article for more posts on the subject. There isn’t a day that goes by that someone doesn’t tell us what a cool life we have and how jealous they are of our trip [...]
Does it scare the shit out of you? It should.
July 22, 2011 By 49 Comments
Q: Why are you doing this? A: Because it scares the shit out of me! Pushing your boundaries Have you ever heard about something so fantastic and out of this world that a little piece of you is just crying out to try it while the rest of you is cowering in the corner saying [...]
Memory Lane: 7 Great Posts from our Journey to Date
July 19, 2011 By 19 Comments
We love to go back and review the posts we have written over the last 3 years. So, we where were recently nominated by The Road Forks to participate in a fun project called My 7 Links through Tripbase.com it was a great opportunity to read what we have written. In it, we are asked to list [...]
And the challenge will be…
July 15, 2011 By 21 Comments
First of all, thanks for making it easy on us. And by *easy* I mean, you guys have got to be kidding. You really want to ship your children to Thailand to hang out with us for a week? To catch you up on this potentially criminal plan, last week we had a great interview [...]
“If it’s not Scottish, it’s crap!” (or, how we fell in love with Scotland)
July 12, 2011 By 16 Comments
After five weeks of living amongst the Scots, we have just one thing to say: cheers fur a stoatin time! (That’s “thanks for a good time” in Scots to all you English speakers out there.) We loved your country, your people, your beers, and your attitude. You are the hardiest people we’ve met on our [...]
