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My wife, Karen, and I look back at our decision to hit the road full-time as one of the best we've ever made. Instead of shelling out for a two-week vacation every year, we now get to live and work abroad every day. And we're actually saving money by doing it.
While most people would consider a car accident bad luck, Mike Sasuta describes the accident he was involved in while visiting Cancún in 1997 as the best thing that ever happened to him. He wound up staying several months to recover, and during this time he fell in love with a woman and the famed Mexican city.
Cafe con leche is the typical Spanish coffee. Now, you could head to the American-style shop a few blocks from my apartment for a $7 plain coffee. However, I prefer the local café where you can sit outside on the cobblestone patio and sip leisurely while people-watching. The delicious treat only costs $1.25, the workers always greet you with an enthusiastic "Buenos dias!" and no one rushes you to vacate your seat.
“I didn’t realize how easy living here would be. How easy it is to get around, to buy food, to go to the beach—things that make it so livable. Everything is so easy here—it’s remarkable.”
Hitting milestones in anyone’s life can be pretty amazing. Big or small, they give us a reason to celebrate. I keep careful track of my stock photography images, as well as the sites I list them on in hopes of a new sale, so when I recently passed the 15,000 image mark, I was ecstatic. Read more...: How I Turned Photography Into an Income That Funds My Travel
More and more people who want to move to Mexico say that they can’t afford to stop working. Rather than give up their dream, how about this option: Start a business in Mexico. Mexico welcomes entrepreneurs who can create jobs and fill market niches.
I hear you're looking for a portable income to help you move overseas. I don't blame you. Why live where you don't want to...when you can live anywhere? The beaches of Central American are on your doorstep...Southeast Asia has some beautiful—and low-cost—places where you can set up home...and the cultures of Europe are waiting to be explored.
Bogota, Colombia has a pace, rhythm, culture, and dialect all its own. It's home to three of the region's leading universities, two prominent symphonies, dozens of museums, art galleries, and performance centers. Living here you'll have a calendar full of social, cultural, sports, and historical commemoration events.
"This may sound a little chauvinistic, but I think every man has the desire to build a home for himself in the wilderness with his bare hands," says Elbert Greer. It was this desire, to carve out a place in paradise, that led the former teacher to his new life on Ambergris Caye, a Caribbean island just off the northeastern tip of Belize. After many years teaching vocational education...
Imagine living in Europe, Africa, or Australia and earning a living while traveling around and discovering the continent. Sounds too good to be true? Well this is exactly what I have been doing for about six years now. I started off in Africa because I had always wanted to go on a safari but could never afford it.