Reading List

Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel, Rolf Potts

Where to start? This is where to start. An examination into traveling fulltime.

Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life, Bill Perkins

On the Road, Jack Kerouac

A Year in Provence, Peter Mayle

Travels, Michael Crichton

A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid

Kincaid is pretty relentless about travelers. This is not quite the don't travel read, but more of a decision essay. When you travel your ignorance comes with you, and you either keep it where it is, or examine it and travel anyway, knowingly. People say they want to live like the locals, but what they really want is to live like a local 'lite'. For those who want to keep their ignorance where it is or knowingly proceed, put on your traveling rose colored glasses, and enjoy the ride.

Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert

Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

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We’re Pete & Kirsten (aka Cooper & Amity)

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Six years on the road, thirty-eight countries, with various suitcases we’ve packed and unpacked more times than we can count. We travel slowly because slow is the only way to actually see a place, one month in a village until you know which roaster makes the good coffee, three months in a city until the map in your head starts to match the streets. Romantic Roads is where we put the pieces of the life we’ve built moving: house sits, night buses, borrowed kitchens, the specific loneliness of a Tuesday in a place with a language you don’t quite speak, the specific joy of a Wednesday in one you’ve started to. If you’re building something similar, or thinking about it, or just want to travel from your couch…come along.

Where We’ve Been:

Africa: South Africa, Mauritius, Morocco, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Antarctica: Argentine Antarctica

Asia: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand

Europe: Albania, Croatia, Denmark, England, France, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine

North America: Canada, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, United States

South America: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru

Oceania: Australia, New Zealand

Still on the List:

Japan, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Iraq, Uzbekistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal, Venezuela, Namibia, Madagascar, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Ireland, and Poland.

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