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Welcome. If you found your way here, you’re probably wondering how a regular midlife couple ended up living abroad. Pour a coffee and we’ll show you around.
Welcome. If you found your way here, you’re probably wondering how a regular midlife couple ended up living abroad. Pour a coffee and we’ll show you around.
Slow travel, to us, means staying longer in fewer places and letting a spot show you who it really is over a few weeks instead of a few hours.
We left the US in 2016 with a couple of backpacks and a loose plan. Eight years later we’ve house-sat in eight countries, learned to cook in a handful of them, and settled into a home base in Málaga, Spain. We’re not experts. We’re two people in midlife who figured out a slower way to see the world and kept going.
This site is for travelers in the second half of life who want depth over speed. If you’d rather linger over a long lunch than sprint through ten cities, you’re in the right place. Here’s how to find your way around.
Everything we write falls under one of these. Pick whichever one sounds like you and dig in.
The mindset and the logistics: how to stay longer, plan less, and travel deeper.
Markets, long lunches, museums, and the local history behind the meal.
How we've stayed in eight countries for free by caring for homes and pets.
The corners of the world we keep coming back to, from Spain to Southeast Asia.
A few stories that tell you who we are and how we travel. Start with one of these.
Less is more. Stay put. The lessons we wish we'd known before we ever left home.
Read more →Six summers in Spain without paying for a room. Here's how housesitting actually works.
Read more →Street food, long markets, and cooking classes. Food is how we get to know a place.
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We’re an American couple who left in 2016 and never quite came back. Since then we’ve taught English in Vietnam, put 14,000 kilometers on a campervan around Europe, and house-sat our way across eight countries.
We write this together. Mairin tells most of the stories; Todd bakes the bread and keeps us fed. Come read the longer version of how we got here.
Our short, practical guide to planning a slower trip — how to pick a base, how long to stay, and how to travel deeper without the overwhelm.
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