A resource for independent travelers
Flickr Photo Credit: Diamond Mountain On our family living and frugality blog, we have a collection of posts about nontraditional housing as a way to meet your financial goals. One of the topic areas is yurts, and gets a great deal of traffic. It occurred to me this would also be an appropriate place to [...]
Photo Credit: We Be Sharin’ Last night, I was feeling just plain frustrated with my office supply situation.
I just LOVE the Dollar Stretcher newsletter. It always has fantastic ideas, but recently I found something that was just over the top cool.
Flickr Photo Credit: Tuppus Hello, everyone. If you’re like me, you are always looking for a way to streamline mobile productivity. Here’s something might help.
Flickr Photo Credit: Jon Rawlinson I know I usually try to lean towards the extreme budget end of things, but I ran across a couple of items here that I am anxious to try out when budget and circumstances permit.
Flickr Photo Credit: Pipi Wild Head When we were planning our trip around the world, I couldn’t wait to see the temple rubbings available at Angkor Wat. That got me to thinking about the possibility of a novice like me actually attempting my own.
Flickr Photo Credit: Sridgway Hello, everyone. This is a follow up to the online teaching post of earlier. At the suggestion of a friend, I switched the search criteria to online schools rather than online teaching.
Flickr Photo Credit: Web Chicken Online teaching is an extremely flexible way to use your teaching credentials in support of your location-independent lifestyle. More opportunities are beginning to arise for those who don’t necessarily want to teach at the college level, making it a more accessible money-earning option. Here are several resources to begin to [...]
Flickr Photo Credit: Cambodia4kidsorg If you are comfortable in the classroom arena, and want to finance your world travel experience, international teaching may be for you.
Flickr Photo Credit: Woodley Wonderworks For those of you on an extreme travel budget who want to stay on the road for an extended period of time, one issue makes its way to the top: money.
Flickr Photo Credit: James Khoo Having extra treats on hand is always helpful when pets are going through any sort of transition. So are special toys and things to “work” at while they are processing. The perfect combination? Pet kongs.
Photo Credit: Lab GP & Sig Other Does your furry friend have more meds than Carter has liver pills? Keep you and your pet sitter sane with a simple DIY med chart.
Flickr Photo Credit: Aussiegall Want to look like a rock star to your new house and pet sitting clients? Maintaining family contact and sharing information goes a long way towards increasing everyone’s comfort factor. Read on for some ideas.
Flickr Photo Credit: Dan Taylor I first heard about the internet community for in-car living while waiting with my husband for a MAC flight from Hawaii to Japan.
Photo Credit: Cyberpowersystems.Com Last May for my birthday, my parents sent me a Cyberpower car charging adapter.
Flickr Photo Credit: Tiago Celestino This is an area we’ve been looking into for a while now. While the technology has definitely come a long way in terms of portability, it has been a bit of a quest to filter through the information on which items can be fully charged, and which can only be [...]
Photo Credit: T-Mobile.Com After months of trying to decide between palm pilots, Blackberries and other similar devices, we were told about a newly released product from T-Mobile . . . the Dash.
Photo Credit: Trek Hound If you haven’t had a chance to check this place out yet for pet travel, here are our impressions.
Photo Credit: Clearly Ambiguous While letting the dogs out at gas stations is fine in a pinch, there’s rarely a suitable area for them to stretch, and the chaos of multiple vehicles going in multiple directions is a bit nerve racking. We prefer rest stops when possible. Here’s why.
Photo Credit: Trek Hound How did we feel about the pet friendly atmosphere of the Drury Inn in Nashville? Read on for details.
Looking for a suitable pet friendly room for the night? This one could go either way.
Flickr Photo Credit: Daquella Manera During a recent hotel stay, my outgoing emails on Outlook Express started bouncing back with error messages. While the incoming mail from various accounts continued to arrive without incident, the situation with the outgoing mail became rapidly critical. Here’s how it all got solved.
Flickr Photo Credit: Tanakawho Having trouble staying organized on your pet trek? Consider a doggie diaper bag.
For the past two weeks, we’ve been staying with the dogs in Tucson, Arizona at the Air Force Inn at Davis Monthan Air Force Base. How have we fared?
Flickr Photo Credit: KangoTraveler Now that we are actually in our first hotel with the dogs, we’re finding several strategies helpful. Want the scoop?
Photo Credit: My Boy Dodger Whether you’re traveling with your pets, or arranging for them to receive care while you are away, there are numerous issues to be addressed.
Flickr Photo Credit: Re-ality One of the most frequent questions David and I have received is, “How are you doing this? What have you done to ensure this trip was even possible?”
Photo Credit: ThinkGeek.Com Well, our rolled keyboard arrived from Think Geek, and as promised, here’s the follow up. . . so far it’s working like a charm.
Flickr Photo Credit: Declan TM OK, have spent the morning researching the portable keyboard option further, and think I have enough information to go for it.
Flickr Photo Credit: Jacob Botter Hello, everyone! I was brainstorming with a friend and colleague yesterday about the public and private configuration options for this blog software.
Flickr Photo Credit: Night Star Romanus Several of you have asked about the specifics of corporate email on the road, and how we are deciding which format we will use.
Flickr Photo Credit: Hitachi Data Systems Hello, everyone. Just got done chatting with one of my techie colleagues, Mike Davidson, regarding accessing our PC remotely while on the road.
Flickr Photo Credit: Night Star Romanus Hi all. One thing we’ve noticed from around the world travel is that using keyboards in different languages (even ones with the same alphabet) can make certain necessary document functions a challenge.
Flickr Photo Credit: Visulogik Most of my international jobs over the years have been obtained before I left either the states or the current country I was in. However, we found a couple of online resources for finding work while vagabonding around:
This view was photographed from a castle wall near Bolzano, Italy. There are many castles in the area, as well as wineries, farm stays, ecological experiences and cultural performances. The area is also a popular destination for ski holidays in the winter.
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This Andean woman takes a break from selling her wares to socialize with tourists in Peru's Sacred Valley.
The ancient Nabatean city of Petra, Jordan provides a peek into ancient civilization and also into the local Bedouin culture, which values the social experience of drinking tea highly.
This stand of palm trees against a blue sky is located in Florida's Longboat Key, one of the islands of Sarasota. It's a popular getaway with tourists and Florida residents alike, when one wants a taste of forgotten Florida.
Exploring the world-famous archeological site of Machu Picchu takes some time. In order to make the most of your visit, it's best to arrive at Aguas Calientes an afternoon ahead of schedule and head up the mountain first thing the next morning.
This command module is part of the Saturn V rocket display at the Kennedy Space Center, which is a must-see exhibit if you only have one day at the KSC. The entire venue is right down the road from the Astronaut Hall of Fame, another fun family attraction on Florida's space coast.
This abandoned mosque in Israel lies along the shores of Lake Tiberius, otherwise known as the sea of Galilea. The view of the ancient stones and overgrown plants struck me as sort of an Indiana Jones image with a bit of Middle Eastern flair.
This resort cottage photograph was taken at the thermal hot springs resort of Papallacta, located in the mountains of Ecuador. The mist rising off of the thermal pools brings a bit of a mystical quality to the image.
