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How to Settle Down for a While (Plus a Giveaway from Roomorama)

Relaxed and enjoying Chiang Mai

After a year of travel, we almost forgot what it was like to settle down. So when we made the decision to stay put for six months as we worked on our creative projects and business (and you so kindly gave us our destination as Chiang Mai, Thailand), we weren’t quite sure what to do [...]

What is it like to travel around the world? (Reader Questions)

Warren's mean face

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

House sitting in Ecuador with the perk of a mountaintop hot tub

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 [...]

Welcome to Brussels, Belgium

Betsy and the giant megaphone in Brussels

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 [...]

Memory Lane: 7 Great Posts from our Journey to Date

Warren and Betsy dyed their hair blonde

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 [...]

“If it’s not Scottish, it’s crap!” (or, how we fell in love with Scotland)

Bagpipers on parade

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 [...]

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 [...]

How I See It: UK

Reflection picture

Since we left on our trip over 8 months ago I have taken a few pictures.  OK, I have taken a LOT of pictures. Betsy has been amazingly supportive throughout, patiently standing while I frame shot after shot on our hikes or walks through the city. In addition she has been gently pushing me to [...]

Life Really Does Begin at 40

Warren at 40

Today I am celebrating my 40th birthday.  Last year I wrote a post reflecting on my life but this year I thought I would do something a bit different and flash forward 40 years to invision what life looks like from 80. Today I turn 80 years old and looking back I realize I have [...]

A few “firsts” from England

band at May Day festival in Kintbury

We are adjusting to the linguistic challenges of speaking the same language as the Mother Country after more than two centuries apart. Our new favorite exclamation is “brilliant!” and we have learned to ask for the “loo” if we want to find a bathroom in a hurry. But perhaps our favorite part of the adventure [...]