Moving to Italy was my dream. As I approached retirement age, I could be found most nights surfing the web, searching for my place in the sun. Those cold, wet winter evenings in Galway, Ireland, glass of red wine (Italian) and a few potato chips for company, I scanned a multitude of property websites in …more

One of our frequent flyer programs was about to change and become very costly. We decided to cash in some miles, and take a trip to South America. Originally, we wanted to visit Columbia, but the current State Department Safety Warnings were enough to try someplace else. On our bucket list was Uruguay, but for …more

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Adventurous by nature, my wife and I began pondering early retirement not long after our wedding. Although successful from a professional point of view, we always viewed our jobs as a registered nurse and a financial services administrator as a gateway towards something more rewarding than a good paycheck.  Raised in a generation devoid of …more

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Having lived here for thirty seven years I can say that Greece is truly a wonderful place to live. The Mediterranean climate gives everyday that holiday feeling. There’s lots to see and do, be it lazing on a beach all day or visiting one of the many archaeological wonders and museums, or just sitting at …more

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My wife and I had a casual acquaintance with camping when we got married. She had camped in tents with her family growing up. I had done a lot of camping as a Boy Scout leader while our boys were growing up. We both enjoyed the outdoors and traveling to new places, but we had …more

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Permanent Travellers, Senior Nomads, Elderly Adventurers? We still haven’t decided what to call ourselves, since my husband Chris and I sold our house and sold or gave away all our possessions, and set off on the next great adventure in November 2013. Yes, we got rid of everything, no, we have nothing in storage. Some …more

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Buying a motor yacht and planning to circumnavigate Eastern North America with little or no experience with boats is a little wacky. Our first and only real boating experience a few years earlier had been chartering a thirty-foot faux tug and cruising through the Trent-Severn Waterway in Ontario, Canada, with Eva’s sister, Lelia, and her …more

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When we set off from Chicago to start on a Green Global Trek in Latin America, we fell in love with Granada, Nicaragua. We did not know how long we would be living in Granada, but we knew we wanted to anchor ourselves there, building a new chapter in our lives and traveling throughout the …more

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