Yep, you read that right.  I bought a house!  That’s part of the reason I haven’t been updating this blog; I’ve been too busy house-hunting, signing escrow paperwork, buying furniture, decorating and throwing housewarming parties (yes, that’s parties, plural). Not to worry, this doesn’t mean I’m hanging up the suitcase and retiring from the nomad… Read More Update: Your Favorite Travelholic Bought a House

Hi there travel addicts! How’s the travel bug treatin’ ya?  Last time we talked, I’d just moved to Vegas and was signing off from this blog for a while in order to finish my book. Well, I’m still in Vegas, though I regret to inform you that the sixth-month deadline for my book has come… Read More A Long Overdue Update

“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. I’ve decided to take a break from blogging.  Several events lead to this decision, most… Read More Taking a Break from Blogging…

While reading on the beach this morning (I’m back in California for the weekend) I watched as a young girl (she looked to be about two) ran towards the ocean’s shoreline. “Bethany!” screamed what I could only assume was the girl’s mother.  “Nooo!”  She grabbed Bethany’s arm just as the little girl was about to plant… Read More Raising Risk-Takers

   “The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” — Maya Angelou    Since I wrote that post about personality types and their corresponding countries, a lot of you have found this site through google-searching “Where in the world do I belong?”… Read More Help! I Was Born in the Wrong Country!