It’s All About The Book, Now

My good friends in Tallinn, Estonia, from left, my Airbnb host Jelena and her son Mark; in front, young Lev and his mom, another Jelena; and me on the right, the traveler. I took the selfie on Christmas Eve at the Tallinn Christmas Market, one of the best annual events in Europe.

I’ve blogged about my travels for more than six years and, it’s about time I talked about why I’ve done nothing but travel all this time.

It’s a fair questions to ask: What prompted me to reject retirement in the paradise of Hawaii and become a nomadic, solo world traveler?

What has kept me on the road into my 70s, still traveling, now in my seventh year?

People ask, “When are you going home?” My usual response is that there’s no end in sight to my travels.

Yet I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately.

It’s because I’m now fully into the promise of writing a memoir about my life and travels.

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