Empty Nest Expat

At Topkapı Palace with a trusty audioguide around my neck Wow! How exciting. I'm part of a trend documented with a three-page tr...

Friends having fun! That's how we spell it: Y-M-C-A How was anyone an expat before the Internet? That was when people really left home a...

  The entrance to the Belgrad Forest Back in Istanbul, after a week in France, I was excited to see that a Turkish friend was organizi...

Me and my Mom on a Rocky Mountain Hike in 2008 I'm lucky to have one amazing mother and to be the mother of two amazing daughters.  I l...

  Striking rock formations dominate the forest Who can resist an invitation to Český ráj (Czech paradise)? Not me. Just the name alone says ...

I had used Couchsurfing.org several times as I started my empty nest vagabonding adventure for accommodations, but it was while I was back ...