Teaching Traveling: Welcome to Ian, a teacher who has traveled to over 30 countries, and is now on a year-long leave of absence to see more of the world! Ian, tell us about your background.
Ian: My name is Ian Yacobucci but my friends call me Yak. I currently work as a teacher and travel blogger for Borderless Travels. As a teacher I started my career seven years ago when I traveled [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Is it possible to safely hitchhike around the world? Let’s get a lesson from the “Hitchhiking Guru,” Kurt Provost!
Kurt, tell us about yourself and how your travel adventures began.
Kurt: I was a bored student in a small coastal town in Australia, much like any other bored student in a small town. Life for me during high school was less of a cocoon to emerge gloriously from but a [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: We have a celebrity guest today! Gretchen Berg is the author of the new memoir, I Have Iraq in My Shoe, detailing her year teaching in Iraq.
Gretchen, tell us about your background.
Gretchen: I grew up in a suburb of Chicago, then had my first overseas teaching experience in Seoul, South Korea in 1995. After that I traveled a bit, then worked in a variety of education and [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Today we have a different kind of traveling teacher: a pastor who’s seen the world!
Tim first made contact with me after reading my article about liminal spaces in travel, which he used as inspiration for one of his later sermons. I was so tickled, I asked Tim if he’d like to be interviewed, and it turned out he has a phenomenal travel history.
Tim, tell us a bit about [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Welcome, Maureen Klovers! Readers, get ready for a remarkable story unlike any you’ve heard before.
Maureen, tell us about your background.
Maureen: I have a checkered past! Originally from Milwaukee, I started my career as a U.S. intelligence agent focused on Latin America and moonlighted as an English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher and a panelist on a local radio station’s Sunday morning talk show. Following a discussion with one [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Today we chat with Nancy from the extremely famous and inspirational traveling Vogel family. If you haven’t heard what they’ve done, get ready to be shocked!
Nancy, tell us about your background.
Nancy: I grew up in Boise, Idaho and, after six long years in university, graduated with a degree in teaching. Immediately upon graduation, I headed off to Honduras to work as a Peace Corps Volunteer establishing resource room [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Welcome, to Francis, a travel writer who hiked nearly 6,000 miles on the Continental Divide Trail!
Tell us a bit about your background, Francis.
Francis: My mother is from Chile and his father is from France. My dad was a college dropout and my mom was a high-school dropout (she had to work to support her family). They met in San Francisco thanks to a slow elevator.
Our family spoke Spanish [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Get ready for a phenomenal tale of how a U.S. ESL teacher’s failed ascent of Mt. Kilimanjaro led her to connect with a remarkable educational project in Tanzania.
Francine, take it away!
My name is Francine Parling and I am an English as a Second Language teacher. Since 2001, I have taught elementary ESL in Minnesota’s second largest school district. My students are immigrants and refugees from Laos, Burma, Nepal, Somalia, [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Anyone out there planning or dreaming of a Leave of Absence to travel around the world? U.S. teacher Aurora Kushner is doing just that!
Aurora, tell us a bit about your background.
Aurora: I am originally from New York State and I went to college at Vassar. From there I taught environmental and outdoor education for two years to kids from NYC, which was a great adventure. Then I moved out [...Read More!]
Today we have the tale of an outdoor education teacher who is currently traveling from Alaska to Seattle by bike (!) to raise money for a great cause.
Andres, tell us more about who you are, and about your amazing and good-hearted travel adventure!
My name is Andres Esparza and I am a 27 year old outdoor educator at Yosemite Institute teaching in Yosemite National Park, California. I have been in the [...Read More!]