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You don’t have to be rich to travel long term If you are ready to strip off the American ideology of the two week vacation, and become travelers instead of tourists, it can be very affordable. You can be on the road much longer than you expect. If you were to ask most people what […]

On my husband’s fiftieth birthday we strapped backpacks on our backs and boarded a plane to Cairo, Egypt. We spent the next two years sleeping in hostels, riding camels and elephants, eating crickets and grub worms and hanging out with Brits on their “Gap Year”, and twenty-something’s fresh out of college, who welcomed us with

Ever notice that travel guides seem to be speaking only to those who are on a “Gap Year” or spreading some wild oats before beginning their career after college? Or, they offer tours and travel hints for seniors, touting air-conditioned buses and wheelchair accessible museums. There is not much out there for middle-aged people who