About 6 months ago, Taylor and Rachel made the decision to leave their big, important corporate jobs in sunny San Francisco and travel for 6-12 months through Central and South America and Europe. They set some loose goals to learn Spanish, play guitar, and give thought to life’s most important questions. For example: Who shot [...]
David Thompson is an International travel writer and prolific traveler who has been writing professionally since 1996. California raised, he co-founded a collegiate Solar Racing Team which designed & built a solar car from scratch. Since then, he’s been adventuring all over the world and sharing his words of wisdom at Dave’s Travel Corner. Please [...]
Stephanie Lee was born in Malaysia, and has lived in three different countries. She spent her childhood in Kuala Lumpur, and later moved to San Francisco during her teenage years. She then went on to study architecture at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. After completing her degree, she worked in several [...]
George, Drew, David (picture: left to right), and Jamie operate a community and online store for active people, LiveOutThere.com. Jamie, the chief adventurer, recently summited Mt. Everest for the second time and the entire team went along for the trek to Mt. Everest Base Camp. After spending a week in Hong Kong, George, Drew, and [...]
Jason Demant and Sharon Duckworth quit their Silicon Valley jobs last year to travel throughout Asia. Initially planning on a 1-year career break, they quickly realized that wasn’t going to cut it. So while traveling, they’re also trying to build an online business to keep their travel dreams going. Please enjoy a week-in-the-life of Jason [...]
Martijn Reintjes and his girlfriend rented out their home in Holland for the year and left for Central America and the Caribbean. She wanted to follow her dream of volunteering as a child psychologist and Martijn decided to turn his game design studio in a location independent enterprise. After studying Spanish in Leon Nicaragua for [...]
Bernard Pollack and Danielle Nierenberg embarked in October 2009 on a journey to visit almost every country in Africa. Their mission: to dispel the idea that Africa is only about conflict, disease and famine. They’re meeting with farmers, workers, NGO’s, and governments to tell stories of hope and success in agriculture. So far they’ve visited [...]
Ben is an engineer by trade but an adventurer by necessity. He’s terrible at speaking foreign languages but loves to do so. Being on two wheels is where he’s most at home while traveling the world. Please enjoy this week-in-the-life of Ben as he rides his motorcycle through South America. El Pimero Dia (Day 1): [...]
Kirsty left Canada in 2001 and has been traveling, working, and volunteering abroad ever since. Of the past two years, she has spent 11 months doing disaster relief work in Bangladesh, Haiti, and Indonesia. Please enjoy a week-in-the-life of Kirsty as she returns to Haiti to volunteer her time with Hands on Disaster Relief (HODR) [...]
Having created the popular week-in-the-life series last year, I’ve not yet written about a week in my own full-time traveling life. The week profiled here is far from my average week, but was enough of a full-on adventure that I thought you might enjoy it. As a quick introduction, I was corresponding with Adventure Aaron [...]
