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It’s The Journey 21 Nov 2012 | 04:00 pm
(The following is a guest post written by Ms. Carol Green of San Diego, CA, describing her own working vacations and their impact on her family. She can be reached at cphgreen@hotmail.com) When we be...
Having Your Own Travel Epiphany 24 Oct 2012 | 03:00 pm
In May, 1980 I took my first working vacation to London, England–an experience described in London Epiphany and Living and Learning in Chiswick. At the time I was an inexperienced traveler who had bar...
A Driver’s License Economy 9 Oct 2012 | 03:00 pm
Last year my wife and I had the good fortune to visit the Cook Islands, a South Pacific paradise untouched by the ravages of large-scale Western tourism. It is a tiny nation (population
It’s Not Either-Or. It’s Both. 26 Sep 2012 | 03:00 pm
Important decisions don’t have to be “either-or” affairs: black-and-white with no middle ground. We don’t tell women they must choose between children or working outside the home–many do both by goin...
Monkey Business (Quite Literally) 9 Sep 2012 | 01:05 am
(Note: The following is a reprint of one of my most popular posts which first appeared on November 21, 2010. A number of readers have asked me to reprise it so, as a favor to them, here it is. I … ...
Grabbing Life By The Short Hairs 22 Aug 2012 | 03:00 pm
I just finished The Art of Non-Conformity by Chris Guillebeau, a book that spoke to me like few others. As the author says on his Amazon page, “You don’t have to live your life the way other people e...
Why oh Why? 14 Aug 2012 | 11:50 pm
In my last post, Don’t Fear It; Don’t Fight It, I described the excitement that comes from taking short-term working vacations. My wife and I have been on 15 of these adventures in the past 30 years...
Don’t Fear It; Don’t Fight It; Do Enjoy It! 8 Aug 2012 | 03:00 pm
My wife and I have been on 15 working vacations in the last 32 years–from Australia to Zimbabwe, Mauritius to Mongolia, Borneo to Bhutan–and I consider myself a “gold medalist” in the overseas work ar...
The Ex-Pat Life or Not? 28 Jul 2012 | 06:00 pm
Our most enjoyable working vacation was a one-semester visiting position at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Australia was as close as my wife and I have come to becoming permanent ex-pat...
More Than Just Big Game 9 Jul 2012 | 06:00 pm
Mention Kenya to just about anyone and one word comes to mind–safari. Most packaged tours of this East African nation consist of an endless series of visits to big game parks, with perhaps a day or t...
