Looking for a way to travel differently and save on accommodation costs? Read my home exchange review and learn how this travel community of housing exchanges can provide unique travel experiences while staying for (almost) free in stunning destinations. Discover the benefits, risks, and rewards of home exchanging in this comprehensive guide.

Looking for fiction books set in Italy? Here are some of my top picks for novels about Italy - Bella Italia. They will satisfy any bookworm and will make want to book your next trip! Explore your curiosity and get inspired to visit with these fiction books including travel memoirs, mysteries, romance, and historical fiction.

I know I’m in my challenged state when my vision narrows and my brain turns my outside world into a fuzzy blurriness. My body slowly moves like I’m going through heavy water, and butterflies emerge from their slumber and slip into my belly, tickling my insides and lathering up my stomach acid. This state of challenge can be uncomfortable and scary, especially in a foreign or unfamiliar place.

I have no memory of my grandmother. She is described as a formidable woman, who expressed emotions not through words or hugs, but through hard work and baking. Growing up, my grandmother and her six siblings were often written about in the Chilliwack newspaper’s society column.

I have a childhood memory of playing in a local, abandoned graveyard near my friend’s house. I was living in London, England at the time and the tombstones were from the 1800s. The moss growing in the cracks of the stone and the ivy re-claiming the space made our “play space” private, wild and welcoming of our imaginations. My friend and I would make up stories about the people and imagine life “way back then.” My much beloved Anne of Green Gables stories were also set in the 1870s, so 11-year-old me developed an association that cemeteries were like libraries, holding the stories of interesting people.

One of the many amazing outcomes of travel is the stories! Sometimes they are travel stories of adventure and misadventure, sometimes they are the stories behind the adventure - the extraordinary little things you learn about the place and about yourself because of being in that place.

Looking for fiction books set in Canada? Here are some of my top picks for novels about Canada. They will satisfy any bookworm and will make want to book your next trip! Explore your curiosity and get inspired to visit with these fiction books including mysteries, romance, and Canadian historical fiction.

Looking for fiction books set in Spain? Here are some of my top picks for novels about Spain. They will satisfy any bookworm and will make want to book your next trip! Explore your curiosity and get inspired to visit with these fiction books including mysteries, romance, and Spanish historical fiction.

Often when friends reach out to me for travel planning advice I quickly get swept up in sharing their excitement and anticipation… almost as much as with my own planning! I love to help maximize travel time and dollars while matching activities with a person’s dreams and goals.

I've been bitten by a travel bug. In this article my husband and frequent travel partner shares his thoughts about how travel influences our relationship, how our travels have evolved together and how travel plays a transitional role in retirement.

Our feelings of wanderlust can be inspiring, depressing, purposeful, anxiety-ridden, expansive and/or downright frustrating. Understanding those feelings can highlight how to satisfy your wanderlust in different or unexpected ways.