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Are you up for a little challenge?

Joy for Beginners book cover

Who doesn’t love a good challenge? Well, most people, actually. But we know you are different, and so are we. That is why we are embracing the challenge by author Erica Bauermeister to do something new, difficult or scary in the next year and the opportunity for one of you to win a copy of [...]

Decision made and we are going to…

Warren and Betsy at the Bow Bar

Can we have a drum roll, please? We’ve made our final decision on where to settle down for the winter, and it is… Wait! Let’s do a quick recap first. You remember we first talked about settling down for 6 months this winter to work on our business to help fund our trip indefinitely. We [...]

Kitchen timers, writing, and discipline

If I just close my eyes and wish at the Writer's Court I will become a writer!

Remember when I wrote about Resistance and how our lower selves work really hard to keep our higher selves from achieving big things? Well, I’m happy to say that I’ve mostly kicked my lower self into submission on this book writing project in Edinburgh. I say “mostly” because there have been times she’s reared her [...]

Bagging our first munro

Ben Cruachan with clouds

                The phrase “bagging a munro” sounds suspiciously like a snipe hunt or wild goose chase, doesn’t it? I confess that it did not strike us as overly impressive the first time we heard it. I mean, we climbed in the Andes at 14,000 feet, remember? We scaled [...]

You always hurt the ones you love

Warren leaves Betsy hanging at the kissing gate

Let’s be honest, though. Sometimes they deserve it. As you may recall, when we first made the decision to travel it was for a year-long career break. Then it became two years. Finally we just sold everything we owned and made it an open-ended journey, a trip that would take our savings completely to zero [...]

Back to work

May Day musicians in the UK

We made a pretty big decision this week. (cue the musicians) This round-the-world “trip” of ours has just been expanded. Yep, that’s right. We are going to be citizens of the world, settling down when it suits and traveling in between. (high fives all around) Life will be one long fabulous journey of exotic destinations, [...]

12-mile marriage therapy

Betsy and Warren at the top of Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh

The straw that broke the camel’s back You know how it goes: you get upset with your lover about something you know is small so you try not to bring it up. You don’t want to seem petty or nitpicky. But then other small things pile on top of it, and one day you just [...]

Do the work

Shakespeare's grave in Stratford-upon-Avon

Rule of thumb: The more important a call to action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it. ~ Steven Pressfield, Do the Work Resistance. As an independent-thinking woman, the word is not necessarily a negative one for me. Resisting a one-size-fits-all status quo is sorta my thing, don’t [...]

Your ideal life strategy

Cobwebs on statue

When you hit a nerve, you can feel it. Recently I wrote about a serendipitous kind of day where we made fantastic circular connections and celebrated all that is good about the kind life we have chosen. The day was the result of following our “ideal life strategy” – though this was the first time [...]

Are we speaking the same language?

Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon

“England and America are two countries separated by a common language.” ~ George Bernard Shaw We were so excited to get to England. After six months in South America, we realized how much our trip was impacted by not being fluent in Spanish. We missed the little things (and some big things) by not completely [...]