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  • The Pros and Cons of Housesitting

    The Pros and Cons of Housesitting

    Tom and I have been on the road for about two and a half years now. While our travels have taken us to five continents and 15 countries, we set out with the intention of biding our time in various select destinations, starting with Ecuador. We look at travel as a long distance event, not…

    January 25, 2013
  • House-Sitting, Take One (Dog-Sitting, Take Four)

    House-Sitting, Take One (Dog-Sitting, Take Four)

    Traveling is easy. It’s stopping at a place like this that can drive you crazy. The plan was to follow up our intensive and somewhat expensive traveling time in Australia and Southeast Asia with a few months in one place, rent free, in exchange for house and pet sitting responsibilities. Tom and I found just…

    May 16, 2012
  • Library Visit Aborted: Not Seeing the Biblioteca Nacional de España

    Library Visit Aborted: Not Seeing the Biblioteca Nacional de España

    On our last full day in Madrid this past December, I headed to the Biblioteca Nacional de España (the National Library of Spain). My plan was to sit down with a book of poetry or a random selection from the shelves, to wander and get a sense of the place, to take a couple photos,…

    January 14, 2014
  • Once in a Lifetime, This is My Beautiful House

    Once in a Lifetime, This is My Beautiful House

    If you stop to think about it, moving into someone’s house for an extended amount of time and taking over the care and feeding of their animals, plants, house and garden while said owners are out of the country could be asking for trouble. Fortunately, we don’t give too much advance thought to these things.…

    December 8, 2012
  • Yoga on the Go-ga

    Yoga on the Go-ga

    The Traveling Yoga Show The first time I did yoga (before I knew the term was ‘practice’ yoga) was when my daughter was in middle school, maybe 1999 or so. She and her friend and I went to the gym together, and suddenly I was doing a high-speed yoga workout on a Saturday morning. It…

    April 6, 2013
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