Since Katrina Houston started traveling 12 years ago, she’s been to 52 countries – including spending a year teaching English in Daegu, South Korea, and working on a holiday visa in Sydney, Australia – and has no plans of slowing down. You can read more about her quest to see the world bit by bit on her blog, The Two Week Traveler.
Traveling Lives
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Heather Cole is a history buff, published author and amateur musician whose passion for traveling started with a fascination with the Amazon rainforest as a young teen. She’s since been to nearly 30…
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A self-described “half traveller,” Alex Marriott began traveling as a university student in England, squeezing in short trips around Europe on weekends and school breaks. Now, employed as an engineer, he’s started venturing further out –…
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A native of Surabaya, Indonesia, Fiona Chandra came to the U.S. to attend high school in South Carolina. Before relocating to Massachusetts for a postdoc at MIT, she spent 12 years in Los Angeles,…
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Vicky Sosa always has a buddy with her when she travels – the Buddy, that is. Vicky bought Buddy, a stuffed monkey that roots for the Miami Dolphins, a few years ago, and together…
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Tianna Gratta admits that her traveling life got off to a “slow start,” but she has more than made up for lost time, squeezing in at least four big trips each year while working…
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Chicago native Francesca Mazurkiewicz is a traveling super woman. Not only is she a wife and a mother to two young children, she works a full-time job AND makes travel a priority for herself and her family.…
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Before Peg Sewall packed up her life in small-town New Jersey and moved to the capital of Romania, she was a teacher in the same county as my dad. We met when they visited Boston together…
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This is the first husband-and-wife profile to grace the Traveling Lives series, and I couldn’t have picked a more appropriate – or talented – couple. Attorneys Ian & Tonya Fitzpatrick have made travel…
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A self-described “geek,” Taormina Lepore is a science educator and paleontologist (How cool is that?!). In her spare time, she promotes affordable, enriching travel experiences in the U.S. and overseas with her girlfriend, Jessi,…