In 2008 Jennifer Hanzlick was laid off from corporate America. When she was let go she did not know what she was going to do, but she knew she had no desire to go back. For three months she searched for her next thing. During this time her mom needed to move her grandparents into […]
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Expats with Young Kids in Tow
Carrie McKeegan grew up in New York, went to graduate school in Barcelona and then moved to London for her career. When she and her husband started thinking about having their first child they realized their lives of working 10 to 12 hour days and traveling on the weekends would not be as feasible with […]
Living in Colombia: 2 Years of Life, Safety & Working in the Land of Eternal Spring
Matt Dickhaus decided he needed a change and moved from Florida to Medellin, Colombia. Why Medellin and why Colombia? Because it was the cheapest ticket to South America he could find. He also wanted to learn Spanish. And where better to learn than a place where the vast majority of travelers are still, unnecessarily so […]
Living in Thailand as an Expat, Volunteering in Chang Mai’s Elephant Nature Park
As part of The Delicious Day’s ongoing series of people who work and live abroad, I was excited to chat with Diana about living in Thailand. I have thought more than once (probably more like 43,521 times) about living in Thailand myself and wanted to get an insider’s story. Here is a bit of what […]
Q & A: Srinivas Rao of BlogcastFM
I was first introduced to BlogcastFM and Srinivas Rao (Srini) through Betsy Talbot of Married with Luggage. She emailed me a link to his site as she thought I would dig his stuff. As Betsy took the time to email me from whatever third world country mountain village she was exploring at the time, I […]
Living in Belize: 101
In 2006, Lara Goldman’s husband was killed in a plane crash. Two years later she was ‘not getting any better.’ Around this time she had a conversation with her sparring partner. It reminded me of a conversation I would have with myself every time I was on a hour plus commute (one way) to work […]