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“Someday I want to tell my future children about how Mom and Dad sold everything, traveled the world and started a new life together. I hope this conversation will be conducted over gelato in a small villa in Italy, as we spend our last days of summer together, before setting off for our next adventure. [...]

Lisa Chavez and Cheryl MacDonald are two women searching for something.  Mid-career, successful but wanting more, they ditch the day jobs (Lisa worked in pharmacy and Cheryl as a Director in a Fortune 500 company), sell everything, buy a backpack and head to Europe. Sound familiar? When I’m looking for a good travel book, there [...]

Today’s free book isn’t a new release (it was first published in 2000) and it isn’t directly related to travel.  I chose to review this book based on it’s premise: “The Tipping Point is that magical moment when an idea , trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.” To me, [...]

Wanderlust and Lipstick‘s Beth Whitman wants you to travel. In this second edition of the aptly named, The Essential Guide for Women Traveling Solo, she takes the reader through the basics like: Why Travel Solo, Getting Beyond the Excuse, Let’s Get Booking, Pack it Up, and Responsible Travel.  The advice is solid, the writing is [...]

When Grant Lingel finds out in his fifth year of college that he wouldn’t be graduating that winter because of some non-transferable credits, he decides to avoid the prospect of finishing school alone by heading to Mexico instead.  It’s with this impetus that the travelogue Imagine – A Vagabond Story begins, which unbeknownst to our [...]

I can just picture Gary Vaynerchuk, author of Crush It! and member of the online elite, sitting around trying to think of a synonym for working really hard. Knock it out of the park! No, not quite. Kick ass! No, too vulgar. Show me what your mama gave ya! Wait, what was I doing? I [...]