This is a story about finding love just when you’d sworn off looking for it.
In early September, Audrey and I co-presented at a conference in Monterey, California. Monterey just also happens to be the place where we’d first met almost exactly 15 years before, where our joint approach to life on the road got its start.
The driveway where it all began, 15 years later.
In the driveway, the exact spot where our lives together began, we got to thinking how best to answer another oft-asked question: “So how did you guys meet?”
This is the story, roughly and in brief, like we might tell it at a bar. His and hers, back and forth, crumpled unlined notepad paper, speckled with red wine. History, revision, and an occasional differing point of view. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: North America, United States by: Daniel Noll
40 Comments | 25 October 2012
There we were in Berlin. We’d been in the city for less than five hours and I was hovering over two frying pans cooking scores of Swedish meatballs. As people poured into a party thrown by the owner of the apartment we were renting, the question echoed: “Now, how did you end up here again?”
How do you do what you do? How do you find an awesome short-term apartment in Berlin?
The answer in this case: One-part Facebook, another part flesh.
Both were necessary, neither was sufficient. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Blogging, Perspectives by: Audrey Scott
19 Comments | 28 September 2010
Last week my grandmother died. She lived a long, full life to the age of 92 and she died peacefully. The news was not surprising, but it arrived earlier than I had expected. When it finally began to sink in, I cried. Then I wrote a few things in order to unpack and process my feelings – about saying goodbye to loved ones, enjoying them while they are alive, and trying to prepare for something most people don’t like to discuss: death.
Note: This is a personal story. But at the end, there’s some practical advice regarding travel, medical directives and handling the subject of death. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Perspectives by: Audrey Scott
36 Comments | 9 August 2010
I don’t know how you guys do it.
– Many of our readers
Sometimes, we don’t know either.
– Us
On Valentine’s Day, couples around the world are thinking of ways to spend more time together. Then there’s us: almost not possible.
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- Love in the Age of Skype
- How to Travel the World Together Without Killing Each Other
Filed Under: Personal Growth, Travel by: Audrey Scott
61 Comments | 14 February 2010
“How do you spend 24 hours a day together for two years and remain happily married…let alone sane?”
The answer to that oft-asked question is the stuff of a future blog series. In the meantime, I remind people, “It wasn’t always so.” There was a time when Dan and I were separated for 27 months. He was in San Francisco and I was in Estonia. And that was before Skype. Continue Reading »
- Love in the Age of Skype
- How to Travel the World Together Without Killing Each Other
Filed Under: Personal Growth, Technology by: Audrey Scott
16 Comments | 14 February 2009
Astute Chinese women told us what they thought about men in Ten Secrets of Women Call.
Now, men get their say.
For all the women out there who spend countless hours wondering what annoys men, this one’s for you. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Humor, India by: Audrey Scott
5 Comments | 3 September 2008
Though long-term travel has its advantages, physical and emotional challenges are plenty. It also involves quite a bit of continual planning and preparation. In order to better maintain our sanity and preserve our marriage while on the road, we’ve recently decided to return to a practice that we applied successfully while traveling through Europe for five months in 2000. This little life hack technique goes by different names, but we call it “My Day, Your Day.” Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Personal Growth, Travel by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
4 Comments | 6 December 2007
