I’ve had a relaxing and rejuvenating few weeks at Mana Retreat here in New Zealand. It has been the perfect place to make new friends, deepen old friendships (from the last time I was here), and to reflect on the year past while getting in the headspace for the year to come. 2011 is full [...]
The Indian Pacific: My Plan of Attack In reflecting on my three-day adventure riding The Ghan from Darwin to Adelaide, I was surprised at how quickly the time passed. I had figured that, despite my love of long-distance train travel, riding a train for 3,000kms (followed shortly thereafter by a further 1,000km by train from [...]
Happy Holidays everybody! 2010 has been quite a year for me, having visited nine countries in a whirlwind of travel. I made this short video as a summary of my 2010 travel adventures and “e-Christmas Card” of sorts! Enjoy: Please click here to watch the video if you can’t see it in your browser or [...]
Globetrottergirls are Dani and Jess, a German-American travel writer and aspiring photographer who left their adopted home in London in April 2010 to become location independent, working on a freelance basis for their UK-based employers. They started their journey in the United States where they traveled 70 days through California, Arizona and Nevada, followed by [...]
I’ve spent the last few weeks recovering my epic 11,000km train journey across Australia and back. I’ve also said “see ya later” to my Aussie friends, and I’ve just arrived in New Zealand, where I’ll be camped out for up to the next couple of months – first at Mana Retreat, then with friends in [...]
The longer I travel, the more confused I have become about what “travel” is, and what constitutes a “traveler”. And depending on who you talk to, it can be quite a touchy subject, full of egotism and insecurity. Here are a few profiles of people (or groups of people) who call themselves travelers. Do you [...]
There are heaps of articles about survival tips for couples on the road. The stress of travel can take a toll on a relationship, accelerate the natural evolution of a relationship, or even force two people to stay together longer than they should. But breaking up while traveling? Yikes – there’s a can of worms [...]
Tim Leffel chucked his music business career and took three trips around the world with his now-wife in the mid-90s. He taught English in Turkey and Korea and began a career as a travel writer. He settled down to have a child and wrote the popular budget travel guide The World’s Cheapest Destinations. He went [...]
I have just finished my second big train trip in Australia, and arguably the most epic of my train journeys to date: 1,000kms from Melbourne to Sydney, then 4,300kms from Sydney to Perth….then after a whopping 24 hours in Perth I turned around and came back the same way (11,000 kms in total). With a [...]
