Posted On: August 20, 2010
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BREAKING NEWS!
Legendary travel guru Rudy Maxa (of public TV and radio fame) has invited me to join him to talk sabbaticals and career breaks on his nationally syndicated radio shows this weekend.
If you’re…
Posted On: July 2, 2010
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Doc Abbott was the eccentric proprietor of a picturesque promontory on Lake Superior—now owned by several generations of my (wife’s) relatives and called, simply, “The Point.”
His HOUSE RULES, which hang prominently in his original…
Posted On: February 7, 2010
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Now and then, a Sabbatical story comes along that is too good to pass up, and too good not to pass along.
Meet Todd Babiak. Todd is a writer based in Edmonton—on a year-long BreakAway…
Posted On: July 17, 2009
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We all love weekends, with or without a getaway. But too often, the weekend can become a frantic flurry of errands, social commitments, and housework hell. For this week’s BreakAway BreakThrough, I’m prescribing that once…
Posted On: July 14, 2009
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Last week our friend Emma Gilbey Keller–journalist, bon vivant, supermom, and author of “The Comeback”–began a guest editor position at the XXFactor, a spin-off of Slate.
I’m pleased to announce that Emma invited me and…
Posted On: May 23, 2009
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“Staycations” are huge this year, and there’s nothing wrong with a little home cookin’. But if you long to BreakAway, it need not bust your budget. This pithy article suggests going by car, packing a…
Posted On: January 31, 2009
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Getting to Grenada is not easy. Maybe that’s why tourists are relatively rare, and an “undiscovered” label still sticks in most guidebooks. That’s all good by me. We came here, 12 degrees north of the…
Posted On: January 17, 2009
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Insects and infections. Noisy nights and strange neighbors. Hyper dogs and bored offspring who don’t yet understand “Island Time.” Not nasty enough? Okay: Rude dude choking his chicken in the bushes below our balcony; hostile…
Posted On: January 7, 2009
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Sometimes when you travel (if you’re lucky), you land somewhere that you don’t want to leave. And maybe you’re not even sure why you ended up there in the first place. So it was with…
Posted On: January 5, 2009
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I’ve got a feeling we’re not in America any more. Heck, we may not even be on planet earth. This volcanic island is so blooming green and steep that the Hobbit might feel out of…
