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Photo Friday: Bhaktapur, Nepal
Today’s Photo Friday comes courtesy of Russ Brooks – former career breaker and panelist for Meet, Plan, Go! New York. Russ took this shot in Bhaktapur, Nepal and writes, “different places and...
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Talking Travel with Andrew McCarthy
I’ve never understood the derision that sometimes accompanies the idea of “finding oneself.” I’ve also had problems understanding the notion that some people have that taking off to travel the world,...
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RTW Chat Recap: All About Career Breaks
We hope you joined us yesterday on Twitter for RTW Chat with BootsnAll.com. RTW Chat is a weekly conversation on Twitter that brings extended travel lovers together from all around the world to...
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Photo Friday: Mongolia
By traveling off the beaten path to Mongolia, Meet, Plan, Go! co-founder Sherry Ott was able to really learn about the nomadic culture in the Gobi Desert by staying with families. She enjoyed it so...
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MPG 2012 Toronto Host: Janice Waugh
All of our local Meet, Plan, Go! hosts have inspiring stories of their own career break travels. In the months leading up to our National Event on October 16, we will introduce them to you so you can...
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MPG 2012 New York Host: Sherry Ott
All of our local Meet, Plan, Go! hosts have inspiring stories of their own career break travels. In the months leading up to our National Event on October 16, we will introduce them to you so you can...
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Photo Friday: South Walton County, Florida
Today’s Photo Friday captures the shoreline at Ed Walline Beach in South Walton County, Florida, courtesy of Meet, Plan, Go! Chicago speaker Lisa Dworkin. Lisa is a self-proclaimed beach addict who...
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Why Teaching English Abroad is Your Ticket to the Adventure of a Lifetime
Few endeavors provide more avenues for traveling, living and working overseas than teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) abroad. From Beijing and Bangkok to Barcelona and Buenos Aires, tens of...
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Around the World as a Family
Most folks travel in their twenties when they have few responsibilities or in their retirement when they have fulfilled them. We thought we’d try splitting the difference. As a family we value...
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Photo Friday: Budapest
This week’s Photo Friday comes from Meet, Plan, Go! Boston panelist Adam Groffman. Adam quit his job in 2009 to travel for more than 15 months through North Africa, the Middle East, India and...
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Making a Permanent Escape
For months, people asked me, “what will this do to your career?” I was tired of answering the question. I knew there was another path for me. But I was scared of removing the proverbial golden...
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Immerse Yourself with Personalized Spanish
If you are thinking about taking a career break to travel and Latin America is on your itinerary, you might consider taking a few days to learn the language and to learn more about the environment you...
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Photo Friday: Great Wall of China
This week’s Photo Friday of the Great Wall of China comes courtesy of two-time career breaker Amber Hoffman. Amber and her husband, Eric, visited China as part of a career break in 2009. After a short...
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Why You Should Add Antarctica to Your Career Break Itinerary
For many career breakers, extended travel is also an opportunity to reach out-of-the-way “bucket list” destinations. Though there are many extraordinary places to take a career break, Antarctica...
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Photo Friday: Corcovado National Park
This week’s Photo Friday comes from Ann Becker of Travel with Ann: Costa Rica Experiential Adventures. Here, she captures a Blue Morpho butterfly caught in the web of a Golden Orb Spider in Corcovado...
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Photo Friday: Myanmar
This week’s Photo Friday comes from the Inle Lake area of Myanmar. Meet, Plan, Go! Chicago panelists Bessie and Kyle Crum took the shot during a row boat trip through nearby canals and villages. You...
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Volunteer Abroad with a Microfinance Organization
Fatuma is a talented local carpenter in Makeni, Sierra Leone. His work is extremely popular but his workshop space is small and lacks proper cover, making work in the rainy season very difficult. He...
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Photo Friday: Florence, Italy
Today’s Photo Friday comes from yet another family on the road! Facebook fan Anthony Graziano submitted this shot with his family taken in Florence, Italy – 104 days into their career break. You can...
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Photo Friday: Turkmenistan
This week’s Photo Friday comes from former career breaker and Minneapolis Meet, Plan, Go! host Katie Aune. In this picture, Katie is standing on the plateau above the Yangykala Canyon in Turkmenistan....
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On the Road Recap 2012
From the thrill of fulfilling a life-long dream to work with elephants to the dismay of a disappointing homestay to the joys of traveling as a family, our career breakers have experienced a lot this...
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Photo Friday: Everest Base Camp
This week’s Photo Friday comes from Facebook fans and three-time career breakers Kip Patrick and Liz Zipse. This shot was taken at Mt. Everest Base Camp in Nepal, eight months into their third career...
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Photo Friday: Best of 2012
As 2012 winds down, we thought we’d take a look back at some of our favorite pictures featured on Photo Friday over the last year: Bhaktapur, Nepal Mathura, India Floating Market in Indonesia Iguazu...
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Photo Friday: Antarctica
Today’s Photo Friday comes from the ends of the earth – Antarctica! Meet, Plan, Go! co-founder Sherry Ott recently cruised to Antarctica with her father and had plenty of great stories and photos to...
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Teaching English Abroad: The International Career Break that Pays You to...
Are you looking to escape the corporate grind for a rewarding career break abroad than enables you to live in foreign country and become part of the local community? Do you need a way to finance your...
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Travel: Finding a New Future
As former workaholics it had taken decades for us to find ourselves in a fairly unique position. We were financially quite well-off, we both enjoyed successful and rewarding careers with the free added...
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Quality of Life Priority Number One
After his five month career break with his now wife, Matt Goudreau sees how that time helped them set both their life and work priorities. It all started on New Years Day 2009. After two months of...
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Traveling with Kids: Building a Foundation of Learning
Rainer Jenss was a Vice President and thirteen-year veteran of National Geographic. As the Publisher, he helped transform National Geographic Kids into the most widely read consumer magazine for...
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What A Career Break is Really Like
Before leaving the United States for my 11-month journey around the world, I figured I would ultimately work in corporate sales when I returned. For nearly seven years leading up to my journey, I’d...
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Getting Over Your Fears
Long-term travel isn’t usually a decision that is made overnight. There is often a deep, long-lasting desire within a person to tread on dirt roads, watch sunsets from other horizons, see new colors...
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5 Steps to Getting Over the Hurdle and Making BIG Changes in Your Life
“You deserve to be happy,” I kept (and keep) telling myself. “You are worth it!” This was my mantra during the time I was making a significant change in my life and decided to take a big break. In late...
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Big Boom RoadShow
Can Boomers Get a Break? While beer-storming (that’s beer-sipping + brainstorming) over the holidays with dear friend and MPG rock star Sherry Ott, we came up with my 2014 career-break movement...
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‘Try Before You Buy’ A Career Break
Sherry & her motorbike in Vietnam When I was preparing to run my first marathon in 1998, I started telling all of my family and friends about it; even though I had never run more than 10 miles at...
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Beware Responsible People – Embrace the Crazy
Contemplating a career break but others around you think you are crazy? Listen to this advice from Ryan and Jen Fuller, management consultants who up and took a six month career break in Argentina and...
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When the Light Bulb Went On
Little did I know it then, but a letter to my mother my senior year of college has set me on a path that will inevitably change my life. It was 1995. Being a naive college grad, I was eager for what...
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How to Go Local in Istanbul
Of course when you go to Istanbul, Turkey you’ll be drawn to the ancient sites and Ottoman history in Sultanhamet – the old part of the city. However, many career breakers are looking for more local...
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