Writing & Publicity
When I started to fulfill my “retirement” dream of traveling the world in 2006, it was only logical that I use my life-long passion for writing to keep in touch with family and friends via my personal blog.
Very shortly thereafter, it dawned on me that I could actually make some money at it (!), and as such if I played my cards right, I could make my travels financially sustainable with little more than a laptop and an internet connection regardless of where in the world I hung my hat.
This continues to be my plight, mission, and ultimately, my success.
Today, I write about travel, personal finance, and lifestyle design. If you are interested in commissioning me for an article, series, or book, please contact me.
Selected Writing Credits
Below is a selection of venues where my work can be seen, along with a few specific links for your perusing pleasure.
Books
10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget
Contributing author. Released May 2009, Skyhorse Publishing. For more information, click here.
I Will Teach You To Be Rich
Travel Full-Time for Less Than $14,000 Per Year
This guest post drew over 100,000 readers in the first 72 hours alone. It remains a highly-regarded, enormous resource for full-time budget travel.
Wise Bread (senior contributor)
Popular personal finance and frugal living website, with over 50,000 subscribers and 1,000,000 hits each month.
Feeling Stuck? 100 Ways to Change Your Life
Paint a Room and Wash Your Face: More Uses for Powdered Milk Than You Ever Imagined
Top Seven Reasons Why I Use My Credit Card For Everything
Seven Monthly Expenses we don’t Realize we don’t Need
Personal Profile page here: http://www.wisebread.com/user/nora-dunn
Transitions Abroad (regular contributor)
The original travel magazine, all about working, living, and studying abroad. Transitions Abroad currently has over 7 million visits per year.
The Motivation for Long-Term Travel
Protecting Your Laptop Computer and Sensitive Information Abroad
Overseas Travel Insurance: Why You Need it and When You do Not
Live and Work Overseas Freelancing on the Web
Eight Ways to Become Part of a Community Abroad in Two Weeks
Laid Off? How to Make the Transition Abroad from a Career Tragedy
MyCareOne (regular contributor)
Care One Debt Relief Services helps people get out of debt with debt consolidation and debt counseling. They also have a blog for the CareOneCommunity on a variety of topics including Life Balance, for which I am a columnist. Here is a selection of articles I have written for them:
4 Ways to Get Free Accommodation for Your Next Vacation
Cheap Accommodation with Style: Hostels Aren’t Just for Backpackers Any More
Vacationing Without Traveling: Taking an Effective “Staycation”
Take a Free Family Vacation with a Home Exchange
Ways to Make Money by Recycling
Capital One
Capital One Bank hosts the Endangered Savers website and program, dedicated to helping people become smart savers. Here is a sampling of a few articles featured in the Sound Advice section.
Starting and Expanding Your Freelance Business – Without Going Broke (Part 1 of 5 in a series about Saving for Freelancers)
Setting Your Travel Goals and Starting to Save (Part 1 of 5 in a series about Saving for Travel)
The Toronto Star
Of of Canada’s National Newspapers; my contribution was a special article about being in the middle of the Australian bush fire crisis.
Compathos
Compathos is a multi-media foundation committed to providing inspiration and resources for those interested in travel and doing good in the world.
The Search for Meaningful Travel
Voluntour Adventures (profiles and podcasts of volunteer organizations)
Volunteer and Travel Around the World for Less than You Think (Even For Free)
Amex OpenForum
Geared towards small business owners, this blog features articles from an array of well-known experts across the web.
How Taking a Sabbatical can Help Your Business
Car Sharing for Businesses: Save Money and Go Green
Life Insurance for Your Business
6 Tips for Running Your Business: Lessons Learned from 2 Failed Restauranteurs
Shareholder’s Agreement: What it is and Why you Need to Review Your Own
Adventura Magazine
Adventura is a quarterly Ontario and Quebec-based outdoor adventure magazine with a readership of 120,000. In their Spring 2010 issue, I produced a small “Daytripper” piece on LaFleche; an adventure playground about 20 minutes from Ottawa.
ASU Travel Guide
As the premier resource for airline employees since 1968, this magazine offers discounts to employees, peppered with travel stories. Mine is one of them – about our fundraising adventures in Thailand.
WCITIES
A database of Point of Interest pieces around the world, featuring the places to see, eat, shop, and do business in over 70 different countries. This information is syndicated to over a dozen different internet portals, including Yahoo Travel, RCI, and Orbitz to name a few.
I have covered Point of Interest pieces in Ottawa, Toronto, Edmonton, Hawaii, Chiang Mai, and locations throughout Australia.
Vagabondish
Webzine about long term travel and backpacking, with over 130,000 hits each month and 4,000 subscribers (and growing quickly).
Profile Page with listing of all Vagabondish articles I have written
8 Tools to Help you Travel Forever and Live Rent Free
11 Bizarre Hotels That Will Knock Your Socks Off
Exploring the Other Side of the First Class Curtain
Five Funky Travel Tips for the Budding Backpacker
Trip Shake
A resource for travelers with questions.
Disaster Point: An Ominous Caving Experience
A Resource Every Traveler can use to Stay Healthy on the Road
Candlelight Lodge, in Australia’s Snowy Mountains
Iloho
A well-regarded travel site with valuable resources.
Travel Post Monthly
A monthly online travel publication.
Travel Through Canada in Style
SNAP Beaches (travel section writer)
Monthly print periodical featuring the Beaches community of Toronto Canada. Travel Snaps section details the adventures of myself and my partner Kelly as we travel the world.
PROFILES
It’s nice to get a little bit of publicity! Here are a few profiles of my adventures thus far:
Tantric Traveler
(January, 2012) Audio interview about how I came to travel full-time, what life is like on the road, and how I manage to make full-time travel financially sustainable.
Living the Travel Dream with Nora Dunn of TheProfessionalHobo.com
TrekHound
(January, 2012) Profiling my lifestyle, along with some of my tips for keeping full-time travel affordable.
How to Be a Professional Hobo
GoBankingRates.com
(December, 2011) This article profiles a few different “retirement” lifestyles – including mine! It was also picked up by The Consumerist (here).
Save Money by Retiring Abroad: How to Retire Overseas for Less
Women’s Adventure Magazine
(November, 2011) Women’s Adventure Magazine interviewed me about adventure travel as a solo female. This appears in the Winter 2011-12 issue, on page 20/21 in an article entitled Adventure Travel Alone?
Women’s Adventure Magazine, Winter 2011/2012
Rolf Potts’ Vagabonding
(August, 2011) Rolf Potts, venerable travel writer and author of the bestseller Vagabonding did a case study of my Vagabonding adventures on his site.
Vagabonding Case Study: Nora Dunn
The Frugal Traveler
(July, 2011) This nationally syndicated newspaper column featured my lifestyle and some of my tips for frugal travel.
The Frugal Traveler: How to be a Professional Hobo
Living the Life of My Dreams
(March, 2011) This e-book and paperback features compelling stories of 30 people who have transformed their lives from ordinary to extraordinary. Mine is one of those stories.
Gypsy Gals
(March, 2011) Q&A: How to Save Money for your Dream Vacation
Never Ending Voyage
(January, 2011) Nomadic Interviews: Nora, The Professional Hobo
The Globe & Mail
(November 2010) I was recently featured in their regular Me and My Money section.
A ‘bomb-proof’ portfolio lets world traveller live her dreams
Transitions Abroad
(November 2010) Fellow Transitions Abroad columnist Matt Gibson profiled my transition from financial planner to Professional Hobo, my involvement in the travel blogging industry, social media, and the future of the world of travel writing.
An Interview with Traveler, Author, and Blogger Nora Dunn
Canadian Business Online
(October, 2010) Canadian Business Online profiled my lifestyle transition from personal financial planner in Toronto Canada, to Professional Hobo with no fixed address.
Go! Overseas
(July, 2010) Go! Overseas is all about studying, teaching, and volunteering abroad. They interviewed me about my traveling and volunteer experience over the past 3+ years.
Interview with The Professional Hobo
Tours4Fun
(April, 2010) Tours4Fun has a “crush” on me! They profiled me as part of their Crush4Fun series. Check it out here:
The Professional Hobo: Where Your Vagabond Desires Come True
All You
(January, 2010) All You magazine interviewed me for an expose on avoiding supermarket traps. This came about as a function of writing about how to avoid the supermarket’s tricky traps, as published in 10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget.
Jet Set Citizen
(November, 2009) A very in-depth interview about how I came to sell everything for travel, my book, and my lifestyle. Read the interview here.
Embracing My Journey
(October, 2009) This is a Site that profiles people who are living the lives of their dreams. These profiles are in the process of being published into a book, as well as a syndicated newspaper column. Here’s my journey.
Canada AM
(August, 2009) I made a live appearance on Canada’s national morning show: Canada AM – to discuss financial planning, among other things.
TravelBlogs
In June 2009, these friendly folks interviewed me about Living Large on a Small Budget while I travel full-time.
CBC Canada News
(May, 2008) While traveling through northern Thailand and being narrowly missed by Cyclone Nargis, I dropped my Southeast Asian vacation to do whatever I could to help. This picked up worldwide media attention, but this story sums it all up quite nicely (was also syndicated to CNN):
Ethical Traveler (feature profile)
(May, 2008) The Cyclone Nargis project also caught the attention of this travel Site with an ethical bent.
Ethical Travelers in Action: Getting Aid to Burma
