TRAVEL INSPIRATION
How can you make travel your lifestyle no matter your circumstances, bank balance or life stage?
You're in the right place. We've done that for over 23 years now.
I've turned up to 3 countries with very little money to my name - only oodles of determination, courage, and flexibility.
I quickly learned that I am powerful and resourceful and when my back is against the wall, I can turn lemons into lemonade quickly.
That attitude. and resulting actions - meaning doing things that made me feel uncomfortable - led me to strange jobs in strange places (lived in 5 countries) and incredible adventures through over 50 countries.
We made sure this lifestyle would not end once we had kids.
For 13 years now we've made family travel a priority with the last 7 years full time with our two daughters.
We KNOW how to make travel a reality.
If I'm not traveling I feel like I'm trying to drink water out of a straw with holes in it.
It just doesn't work.
On this page, you'll find lots of travel inspiration - why we all love it so much, the challenges we have to overcome to make it happen, and simple tips to stay connected to the dream and make it happen.
We truly believe if we could do it, you can top! We're happy to be your guide.
THE BENEFITS OF TRAVEL
Travel is the most amazing wrapped present - the inside is the transformation of you.
I travel because it makes my life so much better in many many ways.
And because it makes me life rich and full with many wonderful memories of cherished moments around the world with cherished people in beautiful settings.
Here are a few of the benefits travel can give you.
8 benefits of travel to a happy, fulfulled life
Travel is not easy. With all the dreaming, planning, saving, and then taking the giant leap towards something that is out of your comfort zone and filled with endless potential problems, it’s a massive drain […]
10 ways travel helps you to uncover who you truly are
Ever thought of traveling to find yourself? I prefer to say travel helps you to uncover who you truly are. Here are 10 ways it opens up that self-discovery
4 Ways Family Travel Benefits Kids
When I was pregnant with my first daughter, Kalyra, I felt as if those around me were celebrating something other than the life growing inside me. “So that’s the end of the travels, hey? You […]
55 Lessons Learned from a Life of Travel
Travel, is it just about checking places off your list and taking your I was here photo, or is it about something more? For me, for the past 15 years, travel has been a story […]
26 ways travel taught me to suck it up
Travel can present you with many challenges which force you to suck it up. It’s character building and only makes you stronger. See for yourself how I sucked it up
The Benefits of Travel: Opening up your Mind to New Opinions
I’m currently sitting at my favorite cafe, Soul Cake, and I am not eavesdropping, but the boisterous ladies opposite me are making it difficult for me to not hear what they are saying. Their conversation […]
Let me tell you how you inspired me when I was struggling. It was last year and everything was going down and they were beyond my control and I was like,
"Seriously, what's happening? What did I do to deserve these?
And then I run into your blog. The articles you shared triggered something inside my heart that was burning for a long time but I was automatically ignoring it somehow.
Everyday I was reading your articles and finally decided to take action ...8 months later I came to Shanghai where I didn't know anyone. I launched my website and social media channels. I did a 3 week backpacking trip to Thailand.. I am meeting new people everyday, learning Chinese and Kung Fu, doing weekend get away trips regularly and I get to see a different part of the world which is an eye opening experience.
You guys are doing a great job. I am so happy to have found your blog and hope to meet you one day in person.
y travel reader
WHAT IS YOUR TRAVEL STYLE?
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OUR JOURNEY
After years of searching for ways to create our own business so we could continue to travel and have control over our choices, we eventually discovered travel blogging and knew we had found the ONE.
For 10 years our travel blog has helped us maintain our free and flexible travel lifestyle.
You can find our travel blogging tips and stories here.
Here are a few posts that share our story from solo and couples travel to family travel bloggers.
Life after full time travel – the ups and downs of settling into Raleigh, North Carolina
Any change of direction brings a period of adjustment. That change comes holding hands with chaos as you tackle a list of endless tasks and a mile of roadblocks. I didn’t think setting back into […]
You’ve Got Time + The End of a 22 Year Nomadic Lifestyle
Our 1 year USA road trip is over and we’re back in Raleigh! There are a number of reasons why we suddenly turned left towards North Carolina as we drove out of Jackson Hole (an […]
How (Extraordinary) Travel Blogging Got Us A Green Card in the USA
How travel blogging gave us a US Green Card. It’s incredible to think that our travel blog passion gave us the ultime dream. The right to live in the US permanently.
I want to know your Secret
“What is your secret? How do you get to do all these amazing things?” I was asked this question recently when I announced on our Facebook page I was flying to Dubai as a guest […]
The Reality of Us As Travellers, Then and Now
After writing my recent review of our Air Asia flight to Bangkok, I thought about how we often view a situation as a result of our life circumstances or past experiences. “You and I do […]
31 Things We Have Never Told You
That’s Caz in the picture above, riding the mechanical bull at City Limits Saloon Bar in Raleigh, North Carolina. She loves to do crazy stuff like that! But unless you’ve grown up with her, travelled […]
OUR 23 YEAR TRAVEL LIFESTYLE IN PODCAST
We shared our travel lifestyle story across 5 podcast episodes.
We broke it down into 5 segments:
- Solo Travel
- 5 year Honeymoon
- Dark times + Birth of travel blog
- Family Travel
- The last few years in the US
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EP 22: Homeschooling Roadschooling Tips from an Experienced Expert (that’s me!)
Yes that’s me! 15 years teaching in 5 countries, 22 years global travel (best education), 7 years homeschooling while traveling full time with an online business.
YTP EP05: Our 12 Month American Road Trip And Why We Returned To Raleigh
We get a green card, return to Raleigh and continue to travel as a family taking shorter road trips and vacations and our extended 12 month RV road trip across America.
YTB 04: Family Travel + Australian Road Trip
Welcome to the family travel stage of our lives. In this episode, we’ll share how we incorporated international travel very early in our children’s lives and then made domestic travel a focus.
YTP 03: Dark Times & The Birth of y Travel Blog
What about when things go terribly wrong and you can’t travel? What do you do when you make decisions that negatively impact your life? How do you recover and give birth to something better?
YTP 02: Our 5 Year Working Honeymoon in Thailand, Ireland, and the USA
Our adventures on our five year honeymoon traveling through South East Asia, the UK, Southern Africa, and the USA! Plus, we share about living and working in Bangkok, Dublin, Broome, WA and Raleigh, NC
YTP 01: Our Travel Story (Solo Travel & Working Holidays)
In this episode we share our travel story from before we met and how we made travel a priority living our individual lives. We look at solo travel to Europe and Africa and the working holiday experience in London and Dublin
HOW TO CREATE THE DREAM
It's not easy to create your dream life but it is doable and valuable.
I'm a firm believer that creating a dream is more about the journey than the destination.
The journey is where you learn your strengths, assets, gain clarity on what you really want, find ways to serve and connect with incredible people.
You never arrive, so enjoy the process of trying to!
Here are a few tips to help.
10 Principles to Create Awesome Travel Experiences (Every Time!)
I sat down to write a travel manifesto and struggled. Not struggled for something to say, but struggled with too many things to say. Sometimes too much sage advice can overwhelm and paralyze. I decided […]
27 easy ways to live sustainably in 2020 (and why you should)
It’s time to make a tiny sacrifice and live sustainably with the planet. Since she gives us everything we need to survive, it seems so stupid to actually say those words. Humans have come to […]
How to Follow Your heart
I never realized I felt like a visitor in my own country until recently relocating to Raleigh. Now that I’m here and experiencing the feelings that I am, I know that was what that unsettled […]
How to achieve your goals and change your life (for good)
Are you tired of making resolutions and setting goals that don’t work? Here’s how to achieve your goals and change your life for good. Take back the power
Just start strong
The Olympic Games are in full throttle and creating many magical moments. I’m watching friends on Snapchat having a fantastic time in Rio and I’m reminded of the wonderful buzz that surrounds an Olympic event. […]
9 ways to unplug from the chaos and plug back in to life
It’s early morning; I’m sitting on my balcony and all hear is the chirping of the birds. I breathe a deep sigh of relief and connectedness. An image of me sitting in the middle of […]
14 Powerful Ways to Improve Your Life
Are you looking for ways to improve your life? These simple yet powerful ways will help you achieve your goals, improve your mindset, attract more wealth and become a confident creator of any dream.
Why Frustration is Your Most Powerful Ally
A reader recently wrote to tell me of her frustration: “I’m already 24 but not living the life I dream of, and instead I just do the 8am to 4pm working life like most people. […]
How Do You Know What Bliss to Follow?…My 8 Step Plan
You’ve heard it a million times – follow your bliss and you’ll live an amazing life. We preach it all the time on this blog. Posts such as What lifestyle are you working for and […]
13 Travel Quotes for Inspiration and Connection
We’ve maintained a travel lifestyle for 22 years now! Travel quotes help up stay inspired to our travel dreams and connected to why travel is important. As we like to say, “it’s all about the […]
MORE TRAVEL INSPIRATION
OVERCOMING CHALLENGES
Yep. Your travels will be filled with challenges.
Don't worry, we have you covered.
How To Stay Calm During Turbulent Times
“These here are crazy times” The lyrics and tune from the song, Onion Skin from Aussie band, Boom Crash Opera runs through my mind multiple times a day. These here are crazy timesTry keeping heart […]
9 Reasons You Won’t Consider Family Travel (how to overcome them!)
Yep. There are a lot of reasons you won’t consider family travel. I understand all of them and how they make you believe it’s just not the right time for you now and you’ll all enjoy […]
How Travel Can Change Your Life – from anxiety to confidence
How travel can change your life! Inspiring story of how Lauren changed her life from one of anxiety and fear, to one of adventure and confidence through travel
How to Overcome the Travel Blues
No not Sunday blues or Monday blues. We’ve all felt slightly depressed when another week of the daily groundhog arrives. We spend those hours of dread dreaming of a life hitchhiking from Mediterranean sunset to […]
14 Things that have gone wrong on our Australia road trip
You know I sometimes struggle to write posts like this. It really takes a lot of effort for me to think of the bad things that have happened on my travels around Australia. It’s not […]
My Secret Jet Lag Cure + 9 More Helpful Tips to recover from a flight
Don’t let jet lag ruin the first few days of your trip (or your return home) My secret jet lag cure (+9 other helpful tips) will help you overcome jet lag!
6 Challenging Sacrifices of a Life of Travel (Know Before You Go)
Want to live a life of travel? Be sure to understand these six sacrifices that come with long term travel. Accept them and make a plan for them so you can survive a nomadic travel.
FEATURED VIDEO: 10 Principles to Amazing Travel
We take you the principles of our travel manifesto and how to create an amazing travel experience every time!
FEATURED VIDEO: 3 Principles to create your dream life
A motivating and empowering keynote to inspire you to create your dream life and understand the three principles that must be followed to do that ... effortlessly and with joy!
FOLLOW OUR CURRENT ADVENTURES
Travel has been the focus of our life since 1997 - intentionally.
We don't plan on stopping that. We now have a base in Raleigh, NC - after being granted a Green Card for our extraordinary ability in the art of travel blogging.
We will continue to explore more of the US but also intend on traveling further abroad - Europe, South East Asia and Central and South America.
We can't wait to share more of our favorites as we experience them.
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ALL TRAVEL INSPIRATION ARTICLES
Lessons from 2020 (+ Joys and Achievements)
The year-long forced winter is ending. We usually write a yearly wrap on the year that was. It’s typically filled with lots of travel and life and business success. This year, as we all know, […]
10 Principles to Create Awesome Travel Experiences (Every Time!)
I sat down to write a travel manifesto and struggled. Not struggled for something to say, but struggled with too many things to say. Sometimes too much sage advice can overwhelm and paralyze. I decided […]
How To Stay Calm During Turbulent Times
“These here are crazy times” The lyrics and tune from the song, Onion Skin from Aussie band, Boom Crash Opera runs through my mind multiple times a day. These here are crazy timesTry keeping heart […]
Why We’ll Still Talk About Travel
I recently prepared a TEDex style talk on travel as a portal for change. I’m still waiting to deliver it, as I’m sure you’ve guessed the conference was postponed and due to go virtual. In […]
Self-Isolation Survival Reading
Don’t worry folks – you will survive self-isolation. Take it from us – we work from home and homeschool the girls. We’re self isolating daily. Parents and couples are plunging into shock as they realize […]
27 easy ways to live sustainably in 2020 (and why you should)
It’s time to make a tiny sacrifice and live sustainably with the planet. Since she gives us everything we need to survive, it seems so stupid to actually say those words. Humans have come to […]
Life after full time travel – the ups and downs of settling into Raleigh, North Carolina
Any change of direction brings a period of adjustment. That change comes holding hands with chaos as you tackle a list of endless tasks and a mile of roadblocks. I didn’t think setting back into […]
Where we are headed 2020 – travel, life and business plans
So much to write about since our return to Raleigh (and last year’s travels) but it will all come soon enough. Settling back into normal life has been particularly challenging for the past few months. […]
Why we returned to Raleigh + What’s next?
First thing I want to say is we are NOT stopping traveling, nor are we stopping this travel blog. So you are perfectly safe to keep following along, as travel will ALWAYS be part of […]
You’ve Got Time + The End of a 22 Year Nomadic Lifestyle
Our 1 year USA road trip is over and we’re back in Raleigh! There are a number of reasons why we suddenly turned left towards North Carolina as we drove out of Jackson Hole (an […]