September 2023, Borneo Indonesia (Excerpts from our instagram posts) For the past ten years there’s a place, there’s a trip, there’s an adventure we’ve been yearning to experience! It was either too expensive, or requiring time and energy we didn’t…
Of butterflies, hot springs and an ancient temple ~ Central Bali
After a week in Ubud, we are ready to discover a different part of the island of Bali. We have a home exchange waiting for us in a village near the Southern beachside location of Canggu. One of the fun…
Since you asked… Tips for adventurous empty nesters
We both contemplated a nomadic lifestyle for many years before we actually started our journey. One factor is that we both have had the experience, early on in our lives, of changing countries and living in different countries. (Peta from…
AARP interviews us for an article on empty nesters and adventure.
We get asked a lot of questions from friends and from those we meet along our travels, about our life as empty nesters on the road…. We were surprised to find out that the national organization of AARP (American Association…
10 Reflections on our nomadic (empty nester) lifestyle
After 6 years of living in Nicaragua and 20 months as global nomads (in Asia and Europe), we are about to kick off yet another phase in our Green Global Trek: We return to Chicago for a while (6 months?…
A weekend fling in Amsterdam
Lunch in Lisbon, dinner in Amsterdam ~ such are the charms of living in Europe! We arrive in Amsterdam, in our new home exchange, just in time to catch a herring before the stall closes. Whew! We must start Amsterdam…
We’re back ~ beach hopping in Portugal’s romantic Algarve region.
When you live nomadically, there are sometimes cross roads where the question of “Should I stay, or should I go?” yields muddled answers. And so it was for us with Portugal. We bounced back and forth between Portugal and Spain…
Lisbon ~ Hommage to the Azulejo ceramic tile culture
Seduced as we were during our first visit, by Lisbon’s urban kaleidoscope of ceramic tiled buildings, we want more! A return visit to Lisbon a month or so later, allows us to delve deeper into Portugal’s Azulejo (ceramic tile) culture……