Slow travel basically means staying at a single location long enough to savor it, whether that be for one week or three months. It means experiencing all you want in a place, at the comfort of your own pace. Often, it is as much about the journey as it is the destination, making adventuring by train, boat, bus, or motorbike just as valid as by plane. [Read more…]
So, You’re Traveling the World? Won’t You Be Bored?
We were in the process of getting rid of our house and almost all of our possessions, and just a couple weeks shy of taking off on our designated two-year trip around the world, when an acquaintance, a mother to one of my children’s friends, said to me, “Traveling for one or two years? Hmm. Aren’t you going to get bored?” [Read more…]
How Do You Get Rid of 90% of Your Possessions?
Once our family of four had made the commitment to travel the world for a couple of years, we knew what it would require: for us to get rid of almost all our belongings. [Read more…]