This is the a guest post by Ingrid Hannan in our series, Simple Rules for Intentional Travel, by – and for – intentional travelers. Rule #1: Learn (at least some of) the language. This is the most obvious and important tool a traveler can utilize. Yes, it can be hard, especially when visiting more than one country. My last…
Guest author, Ingrid, with a family in Northeastern India. Conversation on a street corner evolved into a home cooked meal and meeting the entire family. While exploring Asia for the first time this past spring, I couldn’t help but categorize locals into two distinct groups: people who seemed happy and interested in me (the…
Just seven months ago, we were living in Jamaica as Peace Corps Volunteers. Now, we’re back for a three week visit and free to follow our own agenda. For our first week, we completed a little road trip to visit friends (and “family”) around the island, ending with a stop in Negril for the annual Reggae Marathon. Reggae…
We were privileged to cross paths with Alyssa and Heath Padgett this past summer at the World Domination Summit in Portland, Oregon. Both 23 years old, they have been “honeymooning it up across America” in their 1994 RV while filming a documentary called Hourly America. Their film features stories of hourly workers across the country in hopes of changing…
Mission trips. Service trips. Alternative Spring Break programs. Voluntourism. There are many different types of travel that somehow involve interacting with an impoverished community, whether it be locally or abroad. Our Experience Intentional travel has led us to a few of these experiences in places like Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Jamaica. Sometimes it’s just a week trip….
When we first considered living an unconventional, Digital Nomad lifestyle, we wondered if others were doing something similar. Turns out, we are definitely not alone. It’s an awesome community who loves to share their adventures, the great discoveries and challenges, the bits of helpful information they wished they had known, and the inspiration needed for…
Why Nendaz? Nendaz, Switzerland. Most people have never heard of it. So why did we go there? Well, for this leg of our Europe trip, we wanted to meet up with my parents in Switzerland, especially to see the Alps. Because of my comfort with the French language, I limited my accommodation search to the French-speaking side…
One of our goals for our first year after Peace Corps was to take two international trips using frequent flyer miles, and I am pleased to announce that we succeeded! In September, we took a month-long voyage to France and Switzerland (with a stop-over in Boston on the way home). And in December, we returned to our Peace…
Digital nomads are individuals that leverage wireless digital technologies to perform their work duties, and more generally conduct their lifestyle in a nomadic manner. Such workers typically work remotely—from home, coffee shops, public libraries and even from recreational vehicles to accomplish tasks and goals that used to traditionally take place in a single stationary workplace….
In this post about things to do in Rocky Mountain National Park, we feature the best easy and intermediate hikes, other attractions to visit, and where to stay in Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Our Rocky Mountain National Park Trip One high point of our one-month road trip was spending the week…