Jeff’s blog
Getting Off the Dime: A Review of Dream. Save. Do.
Written By: jeff
Posted On: November 5th, 2012
I’ve known Betsy and Warren for a while. They are the kind of people that once you meet them, you feel like you’ve known them your whole life. They have a passion for life that even amongst the traveler community is notable and infectious. They’ve been blogging about their travels and their perspective on life [...]
Motorcycling in Vietnam: A Review of Two Wheels and Rice Fields
Written By: jeff
Posted On: October 29th, 2012
I always love a good story about how someone gets off the path and finds a unique way to get around a country to see it in a way most of us never will. Motorbiking in Vietnam is one of those great trips. I will never do it myself. I can’t manage a Vespa, much [...]
Book ‘Em Jeffo
Written By: jeff
Posted On: October 21st, 2012
This week is the culmination of months of behind-the-scenes work. My book, The Career Break Traveler’s Handbook, is finally here. Since I started my trip back in 2007, I had dreams of writing my own travel book. Then when I started Career Break Secrets, I had dreams of writing my own book. And all along [...]
How Career Breakers Are Made
Written By: jeff
Posted On: October 15th, 2012
This year will be my first year not hosting Meet Plan Go in Austin. It was a tough decision to make because I really love this event. In the past two years, I got the chance to meet so many great people getting ready for their own trip. But, my schedule just didn’t allow for [...]
Who’s Out There Now: Rory?
Written By: jeff
Posted On: July 31st, 2012
In this week’s ¨Who’s Out There Now¨ feature, we bring to you Rory, who’s currently making a bona fide round the world (RTW) trip and blogging about it on Traveling Round the World. He’s got some true off the beaten path destinations that he’s visited like Tibet, Nepal and Iceland. And, he’s still going strong. 1. So, where [...]
Who’s Out There Now: Larissa & Michael
Written By: jeff
Posted On: July 24th, 2012
In this week’s ¨Who’s Out There Now¨ feature, we bring to you Michael and Larissa, who left to travel the world in their 50s! Yes, you read that right. We met in Italy in April at the Travel Bloggers Unite conference and got to travel around Umbria together for a few days. Larissa and I [...]
Who’s Out There Now? Angie
Written By: jeff
Posted On: July 17th, 2012
In this week’s ¨Who’s Out There Now¨ feature, we bring to you Angie, who I’ve known for a while from Twitter and finally had the chance to meet in Italy in April at the Travel Bloggers Unite Conference. She’s been all over the world hitting up almost all of the continents and blogging about it [...]
Who’s Out There Now? Darren and Sandy
Written By: jeff
Posted On: July 10th, 2012
In this week’s ¨Who’s Out There Now¨ feature, we bring to you Darren and Sandy, who as their site’s name implies, are out Trekking the Planet. They are, in many ways, world traveler veterans having already taken a break to take their kids around the world in 2003. This time around, they’re focused on helping [...]
Clock Tower in Buenos Aires
Written By: jeff
Posted On: July 6th, 2012
This clock tower has an interesting history in Buenos Aires. It sits opposite the Malvinas War Memorial, commemorating the Falklands War against the British in the 1980s. Before the war, it was known as the Tower of the English. But, when war broke out, its name was changed to Torre Monumental, or Monument Tower, despite [...]
Who’s Out There Now? Toby & David
Written By: jeff
Posted On: July 3rd, 2012
In this week’s ¨Who’s Out There Now¨ feature, we bring to you Toby and David, who runs the travel site, Global-Encounter. After meeting on Twitter, I had these guys join us for the 2011 Austin Meet Plan Go event, and they were a hit. The next day I had the honor having coffee and pancakes [...]
