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How to Cope with Spending the Holidays Away From Home
How to Cope with Spending the Holidays Away From Home With the holidays right around the corner, there are countless travelers on the road who won't be spending Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year's Eve with their loved ones back home, and that can be tough, even for the most hard core traveler. Adam Seper is here to help you cope with being away from home during the holiday season.
Six Risks to Take on Your Round the World Trip
Six Risks to Take on Your Round the World Trip RTW travel is the best time to reinvent yourself and become more adventurous. These six great risks made Emily Sussell's long-term travel the time of her life.
Plan a Trip Around Medieval Castles
Plan a Trip Around Medieval Castles People plan trips around many activities: food, hiking, biking, extreme sports, and religious festivals, to name a few. Many people plan RTW travel around historical sites , a good way to understand the history of the places visited and and learn about bygone eras. Historical sites can mean many different things.  But if you’re looking [...]
Challenge Yourself and Do Hard Things
Challenge Yourself and Do Hard Things What would you do if you woke up one morning in the middle of an adventure and realized you'd lost everything in a market crash? What are you doing with the precious life you have right now? Jennifer Miller makes a convincing case for the necessity of doing hard things and teaching your kids to too!
What I’ve Learned From Life And Travel
What I’ve Learned From Life And Travel Travel is an infamous teacher and Life a merciless school mistress. Jennifer MIller shares ten lessons gleaned from a gypsy life and asks, "What's the road teaching you?"
Ten Mistakes to Avoid on Your Around the World Trip
Ten Mistakes to Avoid on Your Around the World Trip Here are some personal gaffs that could quite easily have been avoided had Helen heeded warnings, followed advice, and planned just a little bit better . Yes, that’s right; they’ve all been tried and tested, so better just take Helen’s word for it, rather than stumble into the same pitfalls yourself.
Five Reasons to Take a Career Break
Five Reasons to Take a Career Break You're stuck in the 9-5, fighting the cube wars day after day but you want more. Here Jennifer Miller shows us there's no reason you can't have it! Read on for five excellent reasons to hang up your dress shirt and take a year (or more) to redefine your life through a career break.
The Inside Scoop on Career Breaks
The Inside Scoop on Career Breaks Have you ever dreamed of taking a career break? If so, check out the advice of Meet, Plan, Go hosts and make your career break trip a reality.
The Hardest Part of Long-Term Travel?
The Hardest Part of Long-Term Travel? Too many would-be long-term, round the world travelers and career breakers get bogged down in logistical details before they actually make the decision to go, and it puts them on the sidelines - sometimes for years. Without an emotional connection to the idea this experience and an actual decision, all those details don't really matter.
Why a Gap Year Should Come to America
Why a Gap Year Should Come to America Career break. Sabbatical. Gap Year. These words and phrases are not unusual in most countries in the world - except the United States. Katie Aune explains why Americans are desperate need of embracing the concept of a career break.