We’re certainly not the only family who have left the rat-race to travel the world, but might be one of the few who did it with older...

Every long-term traveler we've met or follow thinks differently about how they spend their hard-earned travel-funds. Some want to eat at...

In this new series we are sharing our exact costs for some of the larger, more famous cities we stayed in. We’ll also share a tip or two...

I had my first cemetery-history-lesson in Bastos, a rural town in Sao Paulo state. My host, a young 3rd generation Japanese-Brazilian,...

This is my fifth time returning home from a year abroad. The first was after being an exchange student to Brazil with Rotary. The next...

We’d been driving along South Africa’s gorgeous southern coastline and the famous Garden Route for 10 days. Heather was my trusty...

Our teens are great travelers, but they’ll be the first to tell you that they hate being tourists. They cringe when they see...

I hesitate to include a budget report about South Africa, as it was the only country where we stopped being independent travelers and...

I shared our RTW plan with a long-time friend and mentor over coffee one day. He was surprised, incredulous even. His response was...

We love the experience of temporarily living like locals that we get by renting homes through VRBO.com, Homeaway and Airbnb. We...

What could be better than traveling the world? Traveling the world with those that you love! We are two families who decided to combine...

Let’s be honest. When you’re staying with family, your expenses are subsidized. We are forever grateful to our Brazilian friends and...

It’s hard to believe that our six months south of the equator are now behind us. Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and South Africa: each...

I handed our hostess two stacks of bills, one of dollars, one of Argentine pesos. We’d withdrawn money at the Buenos Aires airport to pay...

For me, half the fun of traveling is planning the journey. During the three years that we were saving money, I read countless books about...

Below are tables that detail our projected costs, actual costs, and the differences between the two. We saved on lodging by staying two...

By Gretchen Richter de Medeiros Rio de Janeiro – the Marvelous City – the first time I came it was 1987, and people warned me to “be...

By Gretchen Richter de Medeiros PERU Peru: land of misty mountains and pan pipes, ancient ruins, gorgeous textiles and world-class food....

By Gretchen Richter de Medeiros Below are tables that detail our projected costs, actual costs, and the differences between the two. We...

By Gretchen Richter de Medeiros Planning the trip was a multi-disciplinary exercise. We had a giant write-and-wipe world map in the...