Work/Life/Travel Balance

You don’t often see a surprising article in a personal finance magazine. In general, they’re all about trying to put an interesting spin on budgeting, investing, insurance, real estate, and achieving your financial goals. Kiplinger’s Personal Finance throws a good curveball in that mix every month or two though, and the current issue has a …

I’ve always liked what Doug Lansky writes because he comes across as a sensible, well-rounded traveler who sees things with the proper amount of humorous perspective. So I often recommend his First Time Around the World book to those setting off for an extended bout of travel. The Signspotting book he compiled for Lonely Planet …

Thanks to Kathleen Crislip who runs the student travel section of About.com. She mentioned The World’s Cheapest Destinations in her holiday gift feature: Top 10 Best Student Travel Books 2005. I feel kind of guilty being on this esteemed list since my book came out a few years ago. But I am hard at work …

Many long-term travelers daydream about not just passing through the places they go, but actually picking one and moving there. Their friends and relatives might tell them it’s risky, but is it really more risky than buying something in our current overheated home markets? After all, with housing prices through the roof in most developed …

“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.” – Author Lin Yutang When we are toiling away at our jobs, trying to make a living and dealing with all the other demands on our time and income, it’s sometimes hard to make time for …