Tag Archives: AirBnB

1,000 nights in AirBnBs: thoughts about a traveling life with no home

Posted on January 29, 2019 by simpletravelourway

We ended our apartment lease, gave most of our stuff away, and thus began our traveling life 6 years ago.  We have had no home since then, and, for the last 2,200 nights, we have stayed in diverse places ranging … Continue reading →

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The road trip’s best of the best

Posted on December 4, 2018 by simpletravelourway

In this time of thanksgiving we reflected on our latest five-month road trip across the US and Canada and celebrated all the wonders and hospitality we received along the way. When we started planning the road trip it looked so … Continue reading →

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CT in 3 acts

Posted on November 2, 2018 by simpletravelourway

We generally choose travel destinations for their potential.  How wrong can we go visiting a national park, the seashore, or a great museum?  On occasion, we steer our trip route to visit family or friends.  On those visits, our pace … Continue reading →

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Rest days turned into touring days

Posted on October 12, 2018 by simpletravelourway

Sometimes good intentions are abandoned for better plans.  We intended to spend our few days at a lovely Charlotte, Vermont AirBnB resting and reading. Then we talked to our host and discovered that, just a few miles down the road, the … Continue reading →

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Spending a Month on an Island: Corfu

Posted on April 16, 2018 by simpletravelourway

We planned to stay at an apartment, in a small town (population is almost 40,000), on an island (population of 97,000). Does that sound limiting to you?   It did give us pause. Would there be enough to see and do? … Continue reading →

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A traveler’s choice: stepping off the tourist path

Posted on November 7, 2017 by simpletravelourway

Where would you go to in Spain if you had a month? We decided to head for Jerez de la Frontera for 3 weeks and spend the last week in Cordoba and Madrid. (We imagine you are shaking your head … Continue reading →

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AirBnB: 750 nights and counting

Posted on August 6, 2017 by simpletravelourway

One of the worst AirBnBs we stayed in was our first. We had just started our nomadic traveling life on the road, and clearly we had a lot to learn. Four and a half years have passed, and we can … Continue reading →

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Try a foreign destination: take a U.S. Road Trip

Posted on July 22, 2017 by simpletravelourway

Our “places-we’d-most-like-to-visit” list starts and ends with foreign destinations, but somehow a few National Parks in the U.S. managed to sneak in there. Our version of a road trip was just a little different. The plan did not call for … Continue reading →

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Livingston, Montana

Posted on June 26, 2017 by simpletravelourway

Why not stop for a week in a quaint small town? Find a sweet little place to stay in a faraway place, and just enjoy what the town has to offer. And so we did. We found Livingston, Montana. Months … Continue reading →

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Plotting a return

Posted on April 12, 2017 by simpletravelourway

Four years ago we spent two memorable days at Casa San Pedro near Sierra Vista, Arizona. Ever since, we’ve plotted a return to the area. We know it’s not exactly a hot spot on most vacationers’ lists, but it has … Continue reading →

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