Gap year for grown-ups?

Thinking of taking a career break this year?

Earlier this year I was interviewed by a journalist from the BBC for an article about adults taking a career break to travel the world. I talked about how work exchanges have helped keep costs down (as I explained in an earlier post) and how travel has provided us with considerable transferable skills.

So if you're looking for some inspiration to take a gap year of your own, you can read the full article here.

Nica Please!

I wanted to just be a nomad, at the mercy of fate

As we begin a new year and the holiday season draws to a close, I figured it was time for a long-overdue blog post. I haven’t written anything since September 2014 thanks to the extreme humidity in Nicaragua taking the lives of both my laptop and camera (which I’ve since repaired/replaced) and because…well, quite frankly, as much as I love writing this blog I didn’t come all this way to spend my days sitting in front of a computer!

In fact, the past four months have seen me doing exactly what I set out to do when I embarked on this trip a year and a half ago. As I expressed in my very first blog entry I wanted: "To travel with no real map, no final destination. To just be a nomad, at the mercy of fate with no goal greater than to simply explore the world. To immerse myself in different cultures and new experiences, no matter how challenging or confronting.” And that’s precisely what I’ve done.