Life Through Travel is about the holistic travel experience. How do you address the wants and needs of a person on the road? We can only answer this by looking at the whole person. In this section, I've posted on everything from my travel dreams (that I hope will inspire your own!) to holding up while having health problems. Refer to this section for tips on eating, sleep, moving, or all around living abroad.

Top 30 Dream Travels

People are always asking what's on my bucket list of countries and destinations. Here they are! Or at least my top 30. The list definitely continues on as I hope to one day visit every country I possibly can. I hope my list inspires you to add a few new locations to your bucket list and your next RTW trip.

Up Chucks

As I finished up my interview with the National Director of Literacy here in the Solomon Islands, I could feel pain in my stomach. I was in the process of reviewing the institution’s published literacy materials. Most of their work focuses on creating materials aimed at raising the level of adult literacy by providing materials that help people learn as well as material for people to read in their own vernaculars since many of minority languages of the country are unwritten. Essentially they are writing books that teach people to read while also creating a body of literature for people to read. As I finished up my work there, I felt in my stomach a heavy pain.

Doing The Distance: What A LOVEly Idea!

All right guys this is a post for you (could possibly work for the ladies too, but I'm not sure). How to keep the love alive and well while on the road? We all face the question for those of us who travel,  do research, volunteer, study, or have any sort of work abroad. Most people don't even attempt and many of those that do usually end up falling apart.- – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – -***Just a few things to mention about the comments. If you liked this essay or have anything to say or add, please leave a comment below! Even if your comment is critical of the information or opinions presented (I invest a lot of time and research into each article, but sometimes I may still miss the mark!), please feel free to comment. Most of what I place here is done so in order to start a dialogue. More accurate, complete, or up-to-date information will in the end only serve to enlighten us all. With that said, keep in mind that any profane remarks, spam, advertising, trolling, or grossly irrelevant, distracting comments will be summarily deleted.