Oops…found a major budget mistake!
"If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all." -Dan Rather Before we started to seriously plan our 2017/18 travel year, I created a detailed budget as a
Go prepared, to the Superstition Wilderness
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure,
Lessons from the butterfly sessions
"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." -Nathaniel Hawthorne When I was planning for a family vacation to the greater Phoenix area
Could you love travel with only hand luggage?
To check or not to check? Here is a crazy question, what would you pack into only carry-on luggage, to last say, a year? Could it even be done? I mean, it can, of course. These travelling nomads on YouTube do
A big year starts with a single booking
A Big Trip! We are 4 people in our family. Me, the middle-aged mother and my husband. Our son, who is 15 years old, but will be 16 when we leave. Our daughter, who is 14. We live in beautiful British
Turning a midlife crisis into a creative manifesto
Unfortunately, a big chunk of my life has been spent following orders, or doing what was expected. Once I entered the institutions of learning, I towed the line. Attended classes, completed homework, took the tests. Year after year. After all