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: How did a Canadian couple find jobs teaching abroad when they didn’t have teaching degrees nor TEFL certification? Read and learn from Nick and Dariece, “Goats on the Road.” Take it away, Dariece!
Dariece: We are Nick & Dariece, a 20-something couple from Canada. About 4 years ago, we decided that our current professions weren’t for us anymore. I was a paralegal at a law firm [...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: Do you think you’re too old or entrenched in your career and mortgage to travel and teach around the world?
Rory Cummins explains why you’re not. Rory, tell us about your background.
Rory: It all started back in 2009. My desire to travel the world and fulfill my dream was a thought that was continually in the front of my mind, though it was one that I had been putting [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Welcome to world traveler, teacher, and author, Donna Morang, who is here to prove that you can (and should!) travel at any age!
Take it away, Donna.
Donna: My background is a little bizarre due to my age: sixty-eight. I have had several professions and business adventures. Born and raised on a ranch in Montana, I was sort of a Tom-boy so many of my occupations were a little [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Do you seek a career that lets you travel the world, but still teach back home? Kobus Mans may have the answer in the form of Online Teaching.
Kobus, tell us how you landed upon this fascinating location-independent job.
Kobus: I am from South Africa, but moved to Seattle, Washington in 2006 with my wife, Jessica. I have been teaching Web & Mobile Design and Content Management Systems for Lake Washington [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Readers, are you interested in how to combine epic world travels with volunteer teaching abroad? Iain and Claire of Old World Wandering Travelogue will inspire and assist you in this dream by sharing their unbelievable story.
Iain and Claire, tell us a bit about your background.
Iain: Claire and I are both South African, but for the past eight years we’ve lived overseas and travelled for long stretches. We started off [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Welcome to Adam Pervez, “corporate tool turned nomadic idealist,” teaching and volunteering his way across the world!
Tell us a bit about your background, Adam.
Adam: I’m 29-years-old and from Strongsville, Ohio, USA. I’m an electrical engineer who worked in the Persian Gulf for an oil services company. When I realized I was actively contributing toward making the planet a worse place, I went back to school for an MBA [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Today we have a travel blog celebrity, Nomadic Samuel! Samuel, tell us a bit about your background.
Samuel: My name is Samuel Jeffery and I’ve been living abroad in some capacity or another for six consecutive years.
During my last two years of University I started tutoring English to foreign students on campus. The majority of my students were from South Korea and I quickly forged some great lifelong friendships. [...Read More!]
You have just 24 hours left to get your tickets for the “Meet, Plan, Go!” yearly event on extended travel, which happens in 17 cities in North America TOMORROW evening, 10/18/11!
Fabulous “Meet, Plan, Go!” events connect hundreds of people who dream of traveling with career-break travel experts in a fabulous evening to learn how to travel for months on end, affordably.
I coordinated the Boston chapter of “Meet, Plan, Go!” last [...Read More!]