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Here’s a guide to some of our favorite links to resources on the web for career breakers. Have a great online resource for the career breaker crowd? email us at info @ careerbreaksecrets .com (remove the spaces). If you are a commercial site, we are still working out our link policy to commercial enterprises. Please reach out to let us know you’re interested, and as soon as we finalize our policy, we can be back in touch with you.

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Career Break/Sabbatical/Gap Year Advisory Sites:

Briefcase To Backpack: America’s Career Break Headquarters: Offering Travel Inspiration and Advice
Your Sabbatical: Making sabbaticals more accessible for more workers in more companies
MeetPlanGo: The national event in the US to help people get going on their career break
The Sabbatical Times: Directory of all things sabbatical

Career Break Travel Blogs:

OttsWorld: Sherry Ott, a self-described corporate runaway since 2007
Nomadic Chick: Jeannie Mark conquering the world in 2010
HappyTimeBlog: UK couple who left it all behind to travel the world
The Aussie Nomad: Aussie career breaker taking on the world
Two Backpackers: Follow Jason and Aracely around the world
GapYearEscape: Amar travels the world and dishes on travel life
TheWanderingTrader: Marcello’s a day trader traveling the world
LL World Tour: Emmy Award winning TV producer, Lisa Lubin, chucks it all to travel around the world! Follow her witty tales, tips, and rants!
SmallWorldPursuits: Alisha writes about volunteering and cultural travel experiences. She knows a lot about the topic since she lived it herself in Chile.

Travel Advice Sites:

GoBackpacking: Tips for the longer-term traveler heading around the world
Backpacking Matt: Uber-traveler Matt has made of living of going there and doing that
The Travel Tart: Anthony´s travel tips are the funniest out there.
Traveling Greener: News, trends and information about how to travel greener
Brookevstheworld: Brooke´s round the world escapades started in 2007
Travel Dudes: An impressive array of travel tips and destination advice from around the world
20 Something Travel: For the under 30 set, this blog lives by its own Travel Manifesto to show you how to get around the world
Aussie Travel Advice: This site is for Aussies and by Aussies, but a lot of their advice applies to all travelers
Travel Advice Europe: From our friend Amar of Gap Year Escape, he brings you some great travel advice for traveling around Europe.
foXnoMad: Smart travel advice from Anil who covers a wide variety of topics to help you get the most out of your travel

Travel Writers:

Everything-Everywhere: Gary is the sage of travel blogging and writing. And, yet he´s probably more of a travel photographer than writer. His site will link you into the travel world functionally and visually.
Trail of Ants: Kiwi traveler Ant Stone tells his own personal travel stories and dishes saucy travel advice.
BearShapedSphere: American ex-pat living in Chile commenting on the quirks of travel and living overseas
My Several Worlds: Canadian expat living in Asia taking great pics along the way
Leif Pettersen: This self-described vagabond is back from his career break and continues writing
Traveling Teri: Combining great photography from around Europe and the US with pithy summaries, Traveling Teri is a site you will want to return to see.
Hole In the Donut: Cultural Travel with Hole In The Donut. Former corporate type, Barbara, travels around the world writing about her cultural experiences.

Cool Travel Communities:

SoSauce: Great travel content from travel writers all over the world paired with tools to help you document your trip when it´s done so you can share it with the people in your personal community.

Destination Blogs:

Visit the Coqui: Puerto Rico
Medellin Living: Medellin, Colombia
Romania and Moldova: Just like it sounds

Food and Drink Passions:

Catavino.net: The largest wine blog in the world is focused on wines from the Iberian peninsula.

Voluntourism and Giving Back:

Volunteer Global: Sarah will help you navigate the wild wild west of the voluntourism
VolunTourism: Great independent resource for those wanting more information about volunteering while traveling

Traveling with Pets:

GoPetFriendly: Amy, Rod, Ty and Buster show you how to travel well with your furry friends
HowToTravelWithPets: Want to travel with your dog, cat or fish? Anil will help show you how.

Travel and Technology

TechGuideForTravel: Anil dishes out great advice on how to get the most of technology to enhance your travel experience

Sites to Inspire You:

LiveTravelMountains: Great photos of mountains around the world
Best Beaches in Asia: Sometimes you just need to be at the beach

Where to Stay:

Darn Good Digs: Independent site listing great budget and charming places submitted by travelers from around the world.
Lay Your Head Here: Accommodation around the world by travelers for travelers

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