Meet the 73-year-old, mountain-trekking, pilgrimage-making, French-born, Swiss citizen, Lydie Carbou. She's a retired traveler. Not retired from traveling. But retired. And can't stop traveling. It’s hard for Lydie Carbou to stay in her 7th floor apartment in Geneva for very long without setting off on another adventure. I caught up with her for an...
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Traveler's Desk
For the traveler that writes
Interview with a Retired Traveler
Avery Sumner
Avery Sumner was raised on a small farm just over the Georgia state line in Jefferson County, Florida. As a child she spent many solitary hours in the stillness of nature and credits these early experiences for directing her to the life she currently leads as a writer and yoga instructor. Avery presently...
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Interview with an International Nomad
I met Noel Lau back in 2005 in Leon, Spain while walking the Camino de Santiago. Since then I’ve traveled through the Middle East with him and joined him in Spain to teach English. In 2008 he left for South America. He’s currently in Columbia.
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Stephen Bugno
Stephen Bugno has been writing about travel ever since his mother made him keep a travel journal at the age of 9 on a family vacation to the southwestern United States. Since then his travels have taken him to four continents and his writing has been published in more than ten online and print...
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Emolyn Liden
Emolyn Liden has been volunteering, working, and traveling her way around the globe for almost a decade. When she’s not traveling she’s at home in the mountains of western North Carolina. She’s a writer, knitwear designer and avid fiddler. Read her knitting blog at Emolyn Knits
She blogs for GoMad Nomad at Emolyn’s Travel Snapshots
Emolyn’s recent posts on...
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Am I a Traveler or a Tourist?
Most travelers pride themselves on not being tourists. They are adamant about avoiding package holidays or group tours. They are proud of their free-spiritedness: not booking hotels in advance. They insist on spending less money and keeping that money in the local economy. They leave home not only to see other places but to...
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5 Publications for Beginning Travel Writers to get Published and Paid
Here are a list of five publications that pay for travel articles...
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Gilbert Carlson
Gomad Nomad’s European correspondent Gilbert Carlson has crossed the continent countless times, usually with his thumb up. From Syria to Norway to Morocco and all the places in between, he blogs on Gomad Nomad’s Follow Gilbert and resides in Paris when not on the road.
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Gilbert’s posts on Gomad Nomad:
The Parisian’s Paris
To...
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Jett Thomason
Jett Thomason was a TEFL volunteer in Uzbekistan from 2002- 2004 in the United States Peace Corps. Since then, he’s worked in Afghanistan and Iraq and traveled extensively throughout Asia, Europe, and the countries of the Former Soviet Union. He is currently pursuing a masters degree in public policy from Georgetown University in...
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