Friday Feature: Gap Year in Ghana
This week’s Blog Focus on Around the World L sparked our desire to explore Ghana as a possible gap year. The blog’s author, Lillie, really connected with the students she taught there. Ghana has a lot to offer – explore the details of this African country with us…
While Ghana may …
Read more ...Blog Focus: Around the World “L”
Around the World “L” is a blog about 28-year-old, six-foot-tall, Lillie’s adventures teaching – you guessed it – around the world! Join us with today’s Blog Focus as we explore Lillie’s adventures…
Lillie Marshall left her native Boston after years of teaching to take that teaching energy around the world – …
Read more ...Friday Feature: Gap Year in Costa Rica
Tuesday’s Blog Focus on the Jungle Princess took us to Costa Rica – and we’ve got a serious case of wanderlust. For this week’s Friday Feature, we’ll explore some gap year options for Costa Rica and hit the highlights…
Costa Rica… Known for its “pura vida” and post-card perfect jungles and …
Read more ...Blog Focus: The Jungle Princess
The Jungle Princess follows the fabulous life of a Abby Tegnelia who packed her bags and left her life in the states to live and work on her celeb news site in tiny Playas del Coco, Costa Rica. While she describes herself as more of a “neurotic workaholic” and less …
Read more ...Friday Feature: Gap Year in Mexico
Tuesday’s Blog Focus took us on the Trans-America Journey’s road trip through, you guessed it, the Americas. In keeping with our weekly theme, this week we’re giving you all the details on what a gap year in Mexico would be like. There’s undoubtedly more things to explore in this North …
Read more ...Blog Focus: Trans-Americas Journey
Since April 2006, Eric Mohl and Karen Catchpole (a photographer and journalist, respectively) have road-tripped across North America before heading to Central and South America. Since they’ve been traveling, they’ve kept a blog called “Trans-Americas Journey” detailing aspects ranging from where they’re currently located, what sort of adventures they’ve encountered, …
Read more ...Friday Feature: Gap Year in Switzerland
Our Tuesday Blog Focus on Reikalein left us hankering for a deeper look into Switzerland. There’s got to be more than some hole-y cheese, delicious chocolates, and some intricate army knives, right? Head over to this little Central European country with us as we explore what a gap year in …
Read more ...Blog Focus: Reikalein
This week’s Blog Focus takes us to the Zurich-based blog of Christine Anne Reika Syrad, called Reikalein. Christine is half-Japanese and half-British, and spent some of her childhood years in Turin, Italy. While fighting off bouts of “linguistic schizophrenia,” she became comfortable with travel and moving around. So, after she …
Read more ...Friday Feature: Gap Year in New Zealand
Tuesday’s Blog Focus took us to the Cook Islands with From Rat Race to Paradise, so for today’s Friday Feature we’ll focus on nearby New Zealand as a possible and exotic gap year locale.
To the naive traveler, New Zealand might just seem like a spin-off of Australia whose people refer …
Blog Focus: From Rat Race to Paradise
This week’s Blog Focus takes us to the blog of Alex Kasdan, who’s From Rat Race to Paradise chronicles her voyage from Los Angeles, California to the Cook Islands, where she hopes to learn and eventually teach rescue diving.
In her June 15th post, she cites the Bob Marley quote …
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