The surprising thing I learned sailing solo around the world | Dame Ellen MacArthur
“When you’re a child, anything and everything is possible. The challenge, so often, is hanging on to that as we grow up.” – Dame Ellen MacArthur
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Ryan Melling | Day 1 in a New Country
“So you (Maddie and Ben) were fresh off the plane and I was fresh off a forty-hour nap so we were in very different moods because you guys were tired and I was ready to go. I remember we were a little stressed getting onto the train itself because we thought it would say the…
Camille on the Go | From the United States, Traveling in Europe
“We were in Scotland for 11 days, then we took a train to York, England and we were there for 24 hours. It was just kind of something we wanted to add in, but then we got there, and I was like ‘oh my gosh, I absolutely love this.’ I think I probably even loved…
Ryan Melling | Cultural Interactions
“[Travel has] definitely given me more of an open world view with an open mind to things. It’s changed my patience level, because it helped me realize all the different paths people could be coming from and what they’re doing could have a million different reasons. It’s also changed my views on politics quite a bit…
Why bother leaving the house | Ben Saunders
Listen to Ben Saunders as he shares with us what drives us to travel and gain experiences.
Camille on the Go | From the United States Traveling in Haiti
“I went to Haiti a month and a half or two months before Scotland. I did a humanitarian trip to Haiti and I loved that, if I could afford it I would probably go every year. I still want to go back, but we’re planning other trips so my husband keeps saying, ‘you can’t go…
Ryan Melling | Local vs Tourism
“My favorite is probably the Republic of Ireland because coming this October [2018] it’ll be my fifth trip there. I’m traveling with my mom and it’ll be her third. She’s a good travel buddy to have because we don’t have to compromise on anything, we want to do the same things. So it’s just really easy to travel. We…
Where is Home? | Pico Lyer
“Where do you come from? It’s such a simple question, but these days, of course, simple questions bring ever more complicated answers.” -Pico Lyer
Cayce McCarthy | From the United States, Traveling in Ireland
“Last Summer my family and I were lucky enough to travel to our ancestral home in Ireland. My family and I flew out of JFK airport in Washington D.C. and flew Air France into Paris and then took a smaller flight to Ireland. Once I saw the Emerald Isle for the first time I couldn’t…
Linda W. | From the United States, Traveling in Belize
“In the mornings Ben always got up before me and we stayed in this little hotel. The people lived downstairs and then you’d go around the back of the building and up the stairs and then there were like five rooms around the top of this building, they called it a hotel. He’d get up…