Meet Melaka, Malaysia
I like traveling to places that not everyone else visits. When I decided to spend some time exploring Southeast Asia while I was working and traveling, I thought Malaysia might be a nice place to start. The little city of…
Tiwi Islands Tour into Aboriginal Culture
“I’m definitely going to have to take a Tiwi Islands tour while I’m in the Northern Territory,” I decided. I was spending several days in Darwin while working and traveling through Australia, and I love learning about remote, indigenous cultures.…
Gifts for Freelancers Who Travel and Work
Good gifts for freelancers who travel and work can be hard to find. When you travel and work as a freelancer, especially if you’re traveling long term, you really can’t carry around much. Most digital nomads travel with only as…
6 Tips for the Pyramids of Egypt at Giza
The Egypt pyramids of Giza are one of the most awe-inspiring sights in the world so I, like most everyone else in the world, always dreamed of visiting them. My dream came true in 2009 when I went as a…
10 Tips for Shopping in a Souq
A souq, or outdoor Middle East marketplace, is frequently a labyrinth of crowded, busy and loud streets with masses of aggressive shopkeepers calling out at you to buy their goods. Other times, such as in the Gulf countries, souqs are…
7 Ways to Lose Weight While Traveling
It is so easy to get caught up in the excitement of traveling to new places that you don’t really care that you might eat, drink and relax so much that your clothes won’t fit afterwards. And when you work…
Frankincense – the Signature Scent of Salalah, Oman
Salalah, Oman is well known as paradise to the people of the Persian Gulf, yet most of the world has never heard of this charming town of 180,000 lying quietly on the Arabian Sea. Tourists by the thousands flock to…
Female Freelancers Guide to Working While Traveling
One of the many benefits of freelancing is the ability to work wherever you want. Most freelancers work from home, but others choose to take their life on the road and work online while they’re traveling. There are lots of…
Squeaking Sand in New South Wales, Australia
A few days after I arrived in Australia when I was working and traveling through the country, I walked through the neighborhood in Forresters Beach where I was house sitting, to the beach. I started jogging along this glorious large…
Boat Tour of the Thimble Islands, USA
Every year for many years I’ve traveled down Highway I-95 in Connecticut, frequently passing by a little sign near Exit 56 which states, quietly and simply, Thimble Islands. What are these “thimble islands” I would wonder, as the sign blurred…