I’ve been thinking about this post for several months, but honestly only started writing it a few days ago. It’s just that I can hardly believe that Misadventures with Andi is 10 years old. Today. It’s a milestone. One...
#CatchMeAtLuxe
One of the biggest downsides about moving away from San Francisco and spending 14 months on the road and 5 months in limbo in Portland before making Phoenix my new home, was that I lost the network I had...
Low Carb Life: Fast Food Meals You Won’t Believe
Don’t let upcoming travel stop you from maintaining your ketogenic diet. Find the right low-carb/high-fat (LCHF) meal at every fast food restaurant while on the road. It’s no secret that eating healthy while on the go is a challenge....
LinkedIn for Bloggers
We interrupt our regular Tuesday Traveler series to bring you important content about LinkedIn for bloggers. Two reasons: (1) my Traveler Tuesday interviewee took off on a fabulous road trip to Ireland without giving me any images for her...
Selina Siak Chin Yoke: Food as a Novel Character
Thank you to Selina Siak Chin Yoke, author and food lover, for sharing how food impacts her memories and became a central character in her writing. It even includes a recipe for Mee Siam, a spicy Siamese noodle dish!...
Introverts Guide to Blogging Conferences
Blogging conference season is well under way. There are a ton of conference guides out there and I wouldn’t dare to duplicate them, but I haven’t seen one out there for introverts. As a member of that “tribe”, I...
5 Things Johnny Depp Taught Me About Life
With the opening of the fifth installment of Pirates of the Caribbean, I’d thought I’d update this post from March 2010. Despite Johnny Depp’s many highs and lows the lessons he’s taught me about life remain true to this...
5 Ways to be More Healthy so You Can be More Productive
I’m going to take a guess that you are probably super busy a lot of the time and your to-do list is often a mile long, and you just wish you could get more done. I often feel the...
My Blog Income
At the beginning of the year, I shared my blogging tools. These tools are the ones I have been using over the past eight-plus years, both free and paid. I think bloggers are always experimenting with what works best...
Project Escape Recap: By the Numbers
Last week I shared the trip highlights from our year on the road living in an RV, an event otherwise known as Project Escape. This week I wanted to share some of the numbers involved in making that happen. ...
36 Hours in Anaheim – Eat, Play and Stay
Disclosure: This post was created in collaboration with InterContinental Hotels Group. As always, all experiences and opinions are my own. Are you heading to Anaheim for a conference or trade show and wondering what to do? Don’t underestimate the...
Project Escape Recap: Trip Highlights
Making the decision to pull the plug on our current life to take a sabbatical wasn’t easy. But once we decided Project Escape was a go, things moved fast. We sold our house, our cars, some furniture and we...