IL Magazine: Discover the Greatest Retirement Town +6 More SUBSCRIBE NOW AND SAVE 35% about subscribing to International Living Magazine Nearly 10 years ago, I waved goodbye to a corporate career and became a full-time traveling copywriter. Along the way, I've experienced some surprising side effects. If you create your own portable income, chances are you'll experience them too...
Though the Camino de Santiago Trail is traditionally walked for spiritual reasons, Denis Houde says that today people have all kinds of motives in mind. "Some people do it for just plain tourism. For some people, it's a bucket-list thing. Some people want to lose weight. Some see it as a challenge..."
Tricia Koba and her husband, Charlie, have a lifestyle that most only dream about...They live in a beachfront condo with a pool in Ambergris Caye, Belize, where they are just steps away from their successful beachfront bar business...
Like some of you, I've been reading International Living magazine for years, dreaming of the day I would find myself enjoying life in another country.In September 2016, I found the courage to take that leap. Barely one month after my 59th birthday, I traveled solo to Costa Rica. My plan was to try living there for a year...
When I was asked to write this article, the editor enquired if I was still in Buenos Aires—that was where I was the last time we spoke. I laughed and had to tell him that Argentina was seven countries ago. (I actually had to count the places I had been on my fingers.) He was quite surprised, as it had only been seven months since we'd last caught up...
Relaxing in my local pub with a pint and my faithful dog at my side, I was beginning to get into the spirit of Friday night. Well...it wasn't my pub—or my dog—exactly. I was housesitting with my husband, Bill, in the scenic Cotswolds area of southern England...
Do you dream of ditching the boss...enjoying more freedom in life...and not being ruled by the clock? Do you want the freedom to travel...to take a lazy lunch on a hillside...to savor fine wine and fresh olives in an outdoor café...to spend weeks exploring warm, white-sand beaches? If you answered yes to those questions...
When Jennifer Rice's husband passed away, she decided to make a new start outside the U.S., in an effort to rebuild her life with her daughter. As her father was an international executive, she had grown up as a world traveler, spending time in Hong Kong, Spain, Brazil, and the Virgin Islands...
That great line belongs to Jimmy Buffet, but with the travel I get to do with my income...it's very relatable. Sometimes, on rainy days, I thumb through...
"Most days, I honestly can't believe that I am getting paid to go fishing in one of the most beautiful places on the planet," says former landscape architect, Randy Bowser. "I get paid to take people fishing almost every day. I spend my days on the beautiful, calm waters of the Gulf of Mexico...