About
I am a nomad at heart. Before I started to travel in earnest, the longest I lived in one place or did one job was about 3 years. Not because I was bored but because I felt that there was more to life than a ‘ job for life,’ a mortgage and 2.5 children. There is nothing remotely wrong with this – it’s just not for me.
The need to challenge myself has taken me to new and diverse levels. I went back to college at 22 to learn to be personal assistant, I’ve helped run 3 companies, I chucked in a job working in conference organising all over the world to go university at 32, went back 3 years later to do a Masters and became a social worker. I’ve learned to ride a motor-bike, made and sold jewellery, renovated a house, taught myself flamenco (badly) and have travelled extensively. I’ve worked in Thailand in the aftermath of the Tsunami, travelled Asia, South America, America, Cuba, Europe, Southern Africa, Indonesia and washed up in Australia.
I love creating and get a natural high from colour and nature, which I guess puts me in the artistic bracket. I like art, photography, writing, music, crafts – basically anything that is creative. Double rainbows, the multicoloured hues of Autumn, crystal clear azure water all, sunbeams, snow falling silently lit by lamplight or conversely, a gleaming 916 Ducatti or a Jag will also do it for me (it’s the designs lines).
But best of all I love travelling, meeting people and experiencing new cultures. It constantly brings home to me how privileged I am to live in an economically thriving country. It also reminds me that there is more to life than Wii, money and possessions such as life, love, friendship, nature, and community.
Three years ago I was diagnosed with cysts in my ovaries – they thought I had ovarian cancer and whilst waiting for the operation d decided that it was about time I wrote about some of the wonderful people I have met in my life, share some of my life experiences and the amazing journeys I have been on. I was lucky the cysts were benign and three years on I have been able to continue to travel and write about my experiences. Hopefully you’ll find them entertaining. Who knows maybe there’s book in me yet!
All images and stories are the property of Sue Llewellyn @copyright sue llewellyn
Thank you for the ‘like’ of my ‘Fresh’ photo. Your about photo is fantastic! Very, very clever. Mermaid, indeed 🙂
I too am a nomad at heart. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Thanks for liking my pictures. The shadow seems stretched in your picture. 🙂
It does look like that – but the sun was very low that day creating the illusion of a long thin shadow
Lovely blog! Great photos! Thanks for sharing =)
Wow! You’re living a life that only I can dream of …
Love your blog! I had a good time reading your posts! Hope to read more of your adventures. Keep them coming 🙂
Great blog! 🙂
Dear all,
i have finally got around to reading through my about page after many months on the road in Africa and limited wifi access. I have to thank you all for the wonderful kind comments and nominations that you have left on this page.
Hi Sue. Thank you so much for visiting my blog as it led me to your wonderful blog. Loved the photos and many stories that I read through.
I hope you would want to visit my world back too.
Cheers
Aanchal
thank you aanchal and i will be back to visit you 2
Fantastic site you have here. I love the photo’s and your articles 🙂
thank you
Hey, I really enjoy your blog and have nominated you for the One Lovely Blog Award!
http://selinasstory.wordpress.com/2014/08/08/one-lovely-blog-award/
thank you Selina – i’m flattered
I really enjoy reading your blog, so I nominated you for a Liebster award. If you have time, you can check it out! Either way, have keep up the great work! http://sixoclocksunlight.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/liebster-award/
gosh sorry this has taken so long to reply to – africa does not have a lot of good wifi – thank you
I love your blog! You have such beautiful photos!
Hi….i am sorry because my english is not very good but i am lucky that i have the possibility to meet you on your blog! Greetings from Vienna!
Dani
This is very talented Blog,i have a big pleasure to be here ,Take care,EM
Beautiful! 🙂 I love your blog! And your travel stories and the word a week photo challenges. You are blessed to be able to travel the world! I am hoping to be a traveller one day 🙂 Keep up your amazing work!!!!
I am pleased to nominate you for the Versatile Blogger Award. The rules are here: http://versatilebloggeraward.wordpress.com/vba-rules/ Congratulations! —Jadi
Love your blog, great pictures 🙂
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I love this. See, this is why I have nominated you along with a few other people for the Liebster Award, an honor given to bloggers held in high esteem. I very much appreciate the things you blog about, the photos, your points-of-view, etc. Keep on with your insightful posts. Check out my nomination.
http://willboywonder.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/being-liebster/
Awesome – thank you so much
Thanks for the follow. Love your word a week photo challenge. A great idea that I may have to partake… 🙂
Best, Dan.
http://www.sightingsofthesubtle.wordpress.com
Sorry – wow that was premature. Was on a blog trail which came upon yours and now I’m the one following.
You’re not following mine… yet. 😉
I enjoy your wonderful posts. I will like to nominate you for The Versatile Blogger Award.
http://favoritepasstime.wordpress.com/award/
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Your blog is great. I love the vibrancy of the posts, they resonate with the energies of the places you write about. There is alot of creativity here….I nominated your blog for the awesome blog content award. Your nomination is here: http://thecosmicpilgrim.wordpress.com/2013/12/10/679/
namaste.
I am also addicted to travelling to new countries and learning all about their cultures and taking photos of the moments and places I never want to forget. Hope you have a fabulous adventure and fun on all your travels Sue. I am really enjoying reading about everything you get up to and travelling to new places with you.
This is such a beautiful blog. Your photography is superb and your perspective on life in general strikes a chord with me. I’m so glad I stumbled upon your blog 🙂
thank you jene
Love the blog. It’s so nice to see other people with the same attitude to life I have, and for it to work for them when I’m constantly ushered down the mortgage and 2.5 children path. Can’t wait to read more of your posts!
Hi Sue, thank you for dropping by my blog and liking ‘A night in Noyers’ – very much appreciated! You have some great images here, particularly love the mermaid shadow one 🙂
Thanks for checking out my blog and liking my photos there. I think yours are just amazing! I like a lot of the same things you do, so I’m sure I’ll be back 🙂 Fair winds and following seas…
Thank you jill 🙂
I haven’t had a chance to read all of the above posts. I just wanted to say how much I LOVE your shadow photo!!
Thank you very much for visiting my blog. I look forward to meandering around yours. From your “About” page alone I think we would get along very well, as I was on a similar trajectory for quite a while. There’s nothing quite like long term travel, ostensibly to “discover the world,” only to discover your own true heart, instead.
so very true 🙂
Thank you for the like on my post on Margate. I am honoured that that found your way to my blog – GG, The Reluctant Retiree
This is an amazing, inspiring blog! I hope one day to fill mine with half the adventures you’ve gotten to have. I’m intrigued: when you went back to school to become a personal assistant, what did you study?
thank you Madelyne for you kind comments, I studied, Journalism, ecomonics, typing, shorthand and law
I always used to think what if I lose the enthusiasm to do or see something new, because as people say it doesn’t last long but now I’ve have an example to quote, for me essence of life is in doing what you would like to do irrespective of right or wrong or what others will think, looking forward to reading more from you, thanks for liking my blog 🙂
I love your life!! Kudos to you to have the courage to live life on your terms. It is truly inspiring.
You are a brilliant photographer and your pictures speak volumes about your beautiful soul..
Lots of love and keep rocking!!
I find many of your photos very arresting. Is it possible to use one for a prompt for my blog, Tales for Life as long as I attribute them to you? If so, is there a name I could state with the photo?
Hi Cynthia – when you say prompt what do you exactly mean? – do you have a weekly challenge as well? My name is Sue Llewellyn and if you would like to use one of my photos please let me know what it is in relation to and which photo you would like to use as all my photos are under copyright and I sell a lot of them them through red bubble. If you provide a link to my blog and attribute the photograph to me I will be happy to let you use one as long as I approve the photograph first.
Thank you for the information. By “prompt” I mean I use photos to start me off on a new story–I have used several over the months on my blog to this end, but those (as well as paintings) that are generally in the public domain. It is not a weekly challenge. For example, I sometimes use pictures in my posts from other bloggers’ such as an artist’s and a photographer’s, both of whom consented. I will be in touch if I decide to carry through regarding yours, of course. But kudos to you for having such a great eye!
What a beautiful site you have here! You have visited many of my “bucket” list places… so are a wonderful inspiration!
Skinnywench, your blog is beautiful, thank you for stopping by mine!
thank you
Thanks for following my blog! Yours is interesting as well!
Hi there!
Thanks for stopping by my blog and liking my Weekly Challenge photo on Nostalgia 🙂
I’m going to have to spend some time working my way around your blog – you have done so much! I look forward to reading about your travels!
Hey, just read your about me page and I would just like to say I think its great that you have done what you enjoy and have wanted to do throughout your life. I am 21 and if I can take inspiration from you and not worry what I’m ‘supposed’ to do (i.e. go university at a certain age, etc.) and live my life doing the things I enjoy, and want to do, I will be very happy.
Hey there, I just nominated you for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award. See here http://parrotsonthepowerline.wordpress.com/ to accept. Thanks for being a great read!
Hi Sue:
This is just to let you know I’ve listed you for a Liebster Award:
http://beyondprague.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/beyond-prague-gets-another-award/
Keep up the great blogging! I really enjoy checking in here.
Kevan
liked it,watched it,visited it,felt it and also loved it…… 🙂
Hi, I know you’ve read several of my blog posts and I waited to reply until I’d completed the entire blog. This was in preparation for my creation of a blog where I share all the business knowledge I’ve accumulated over the years. Unique thing about knowledge: one can give it away or sell it and still maintain possession. I have a lot to learn about blogging to make it visually appealing; your interest in reading my posts spurred me on. Thanks!
Hi there I have nominated you for the “A Ton of Awards”. Thanks for having such an enjoyable site to share with everyone. Please find the information on the below link if you choose to accept the award nomination.
http://wp.me/p3up8i-6w
Hope to continue reading brilliant stuffs from you as always.
Love,
Shivani Panchmatia
Wow a hundred fold of thanks to go with the ton of awards – thank you Shivani
When we take the time to stop and look, life is such a beautiful thing. Well done you to share the beauty you have discovered! Thanks for stopping by my blog and for the like.
I know what you mean when you write it’s time to write about the people and experiences you love. Far as I can tell from your yummy images, beautiful bags and mermaid fin there’s about a book a day in you, SkinnyWench! Glad to be in your company & can’t wait to read your books!
thank you for the encouragement LNTB I’ll do my best 🙂
You have a really wonderful blog here. I need to follow your nest steps, very exciting. Thank you. Keep on the good way, your photos are really good.
THANK YOU IRENE
You have a very nice blog. Your story is inspirational. I look forward to reading more. Thanks for liking my blog, Sally
thank you Sally
Thank you for visiting, liking, and following my blog. I’m getting ready to explore yours:-)
thank you and hope you enjoy your visit
Love your blog! Just wanted to let you know I nominated you for the Sunshine Award http://curiousmother.wordpress.com/awards/
Always inspiring!
Wow thank you CM – what an honour
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Wow, you have amazing pictures. I’m glad I stumbled onto your blog. Looking forward to your future posts!
thank you Eric
Thank you for liking my recent post. I enjoyed visiting your blog. Keep up the good work! 🙂
thank you for checking me out too 🙂
I love your blog so have nominated you for the Liebster Award!
http://tjsobservationsandlife.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/the-liebster-blog-award/
thank you Tracy – I’m honoured 🙂
Thanks for the liking my post.. Hope you can visit Philippines too.. 😀
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🙂
Thamk you for poking around my little slice of cranial carousing.
Love your pics. You’ve got some amazing photos. This pic on the About page is really very clever. It’s seems your shadow is strategically placed.
thank EA – I did phoshop it a bit though 🙂
Thank you for liking my story about hiking in the Swiss Alps, because that led me to your wonderful blog. So this is a double thank you!
thank you Ernie – I enjoyed visiting you as well
Hi Skinnywench! Thank you very much for visiting my blog ‘A View From My Summerhouse’ and liking my post. I really appreciate it. I hope that you will visit again! Your blog is amazing and so interesting.
thank you Sherri
Thanks for liking my photo post. This blog is beautifully put together and I love the ideas and stories you’re sharing; travel well and far, you are living as many people dream of doing, full present, engaged and fluid! Look forward to following your adventures.
thank you and looking forward to your comments and revisiting your blog
Thank you for liking my post. I am blown away by the photos you’ve got on here and the travels you’ve made. Can’t help but feel envious! 🙂 Looking forward to seeing more!
thank you so much – what kind comments
Wow! You have lived a life i’ve been dreaming of .. Cool! 🙂 like your posts!
thanks Irene
“If you want to know what’s going on in the world, go see the world…”
What a fun blog you have! Thank you so much for sharing your travel adventures. I enjoyed reading through your blog — I’m sure many of us can relate to the dentist in Colombia story!
Keep blogging, and thank you for stopping by my blog and liking ‘Keep Me’.
I will keep checking your ‘word a week’.
Cheers!
Thank you Steph and good luck with your blog too
You’re absolutely right; the 9 – 5 job, mortgage, children is not for everyone, and it should not be expected of everyone. I’m very blessed that I have realized this sooner than later. At 35 years of age I’ve decided to leave the mold I was raised to be in, and will starting a new life in Colombia beginning of 2014. I will be travelling for 7 months, and then doing what I love the most: helping people organize their travel plans. Thank you for checking out http://iwilltravelblog.wordpress.com You can also find more of me at http://facebook.com/iwilltravel
May you continue to be in good health.
Will
and may you flourish too Will 🙂
Thanks for the “like” free spirit… And, I, yours… Look forward to reading more
thank you for the visit too 🙂
thanks -what a lovely blog !!! please keep in touch!!
thank you – you keep in touch too 🙂
Thanks for stopping by my blog! 🙂
Thanks for visiting my blog. I’m brand new to this, and I LOVE your blog. The pictures and word a week is so fun! So many great ideas. The pictures for the “old” word are priceless. As a massage therapist, I find the picture of the “old hands” to hit home, wanting to have some new/old pictures of the same things…like hands. There’s just something about all the experiences someone’s hands have been through… Thanks for a great blog.
thank you – hands tell a lot of things
As a gift for the pleasure you give me with your posts, I have nominated you for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award! Thank you so much for your posts! 🙂 You can get the into at http://tkmorin.wordpress.com/awards/
thank you tk I’m honoured that you have nominated me
I’m really hoping that visitors to my blog will also follow yours. I find them very entertaining! Keep up the great work! 🙂
Thanks for the visit to my blog and leading me to yours! Wonderful stories and photos that I look forward to reading much more of 🙂 Cheers!
thank you for visiting as well 🙂
Thanks for visiting photobyjohnbo.wordpress.com again and liking my recent post.
pleasure
I have thoroughly enjoyed running through your blog here. Beautiful photography and great writing. Thanks for stopping by and giving me some love. Consider yourself followed =) Have a great one! -fn
Thank you Francis – have a good weekend 🙂
Hi, thanks for stopping by and checking and liking my blog. I’ve loved reading yours and your photos are great! Makes me want to travel more! I look forward to following your adventures!
Thank you Avril
Thanks for the ‘like’. Great to share ideas, words and photographs.
I agree
Thanks for visiting my blog and for sharing some of your experiences. Keep it up!
Thank you stopping by my blog. Good luck with yours. Happy traveling!
Ahh a co-believer! Keep on travelling- good luck
Thanks for liking my post… it is appreciated specially when it is from more experienced blogger like yourself. I love your posts!
thank yo UW
Thanks so much for liking my recent blog response to your Word a Week Challenge – Colour – your continued support is appreciated. 🙂
Thanks for visiting my blog, and in so doing, introducing me to yours. So much on it to see and to like!!!
thank you Mary
Thank you for liking my blog post. I look forward to reading more of your blog.
thank you also for visiting
Just like a mermaid.
Blessings to you. Your blog is delightful. 🙂 Thank you so much for stopping by The Faith Standard today. Your visit is appreciated.
Amazing: your shadow’s even skinny! thanks for stopping by my blog. Kind of you to take time to do that!—M
thank you for visiting mine in return
Hi. 🙂 Thanks for dropping by and liking my post. 🙂 More power to you. 🙂
likewise 🙂
Thanks for liking my pale travel photo. I enjoy your blog and will be following.
thank you Rosemarie 🙂
Thanks for your recent “like” on my new blog! As a self-proclaimed “restless heart,” I understand your desire to begin something new every few years. It’s as if an I internal alarm clock just wakes us up one morning and says, “It’s time!” Excited to see where your continued journey takes you. Cheers! 🙂
hopefully to another continent soon 🙂
Thanks for allowing me to live vicariously through you! Come by my blog any time or a laugh or two.
thank you Helen
Hi Skinnywench!
Thanks for visiting and liking my WordPress blog. I’m new with WordPress so just learning the tools and the culture, but I’d like to add your blog to my links once I figure out how to do it. Looks like you’re doing some interesting writing.
Thank you Tom – I find bloggin very rewarding and hope you will too – good luck with the new blog
You travelled a lot around the world, but some more cities in Europe are missing. I wrote about a trip to Barcelona and soon there will be up a second post about it and a post about Berlin.
It would be great if you would check our Blog again: http://www.weberryit.wordpress.com
Sue Ellen,
I am a fan of your blog and have nominated you for the Liebster Award. You can get the details here: http://ohmsweetohmdotme.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/the-liebster-award/
Allan
Wow Thank You Allan – what a nice thing to happen 🙂
thank you so much for the reblog. loving your blog, the pictures and the challenges!! 🙂
Thanks for picking up some of the nasty truth about Indonesia.
Great blog!
thank you Mike – I’ve been to Indonesia and had some good times and some very bad times 🙂
As a traveler I can relate to your outlook on life via the open road. I read your “about” page and its great to see your adoration for travel and art. Thanks for hitting “like ” on my blog and the very best to you.
thak you for visiting as well Stan 🙂
What a genuinely lovely blog you have. I’m so jealous of your travels! Such a nice record to have of everything too – it’s actually inspires me a bit to write about some of the places I have been to. Fantastic stuff.
Thank you Seeph – looking forward to seeing what you post
Hey there! You liked a post on my blog so I wanted to check out your blog and say, “Hi.” Your photography is breathtaking! Since starting a blog I’ve developed some interest in photography. I’m not a great photographer yet, but I hope to develp some skill over time. I admire your life choices. My path is not typical either, but it’s still very different from yours (your life sounds a lot more exciting than mine!). Thanks so much for stopping by my blog. I hope you’ll stop by again.
thank you for stopping by celeste – I’ve been very lucky in many respects with being able to travel and meet people. Photography developed as a result – keep at it – im, still learning too
Thanks for stopping by my blog again. Love yours and the way you write. I get a feeling that it’s the way you talk as well. That’s a really good way to write, you bring your passion into every story, love it!
thank you Londoncab for your kind words 🙂
thanks for the like… lovely photo!
wow, lovely blog and beautiful pictures.
thank you 🙂
Hi skinnywench! My gal Dillon has a fun adventure in store…I admire you nomads. 🙂
Hope she has a wonderful time Dina
Thank you for stopping by! I just had a chance to view some of your experiences and travels, and it’s inspirational to say the least. I look forward to learning from your experiences as I begin a similar phase in life.
Ohh that sounds exciting I look forward to seeing more of your posts
Thanks for stopping by. You should surely write that book
and thank you for coming by mine as well 🙂
Awesome Blog! Thanks for stopping by mine & liking my photography!
thank you for checking mine out too 🙂
Wow. Thanks for reading my blog. Love the photos on yours. Ahhh…. wanderlust….
yes – it never really goes away
hey there…thank you for stopping by…it sounds as though you have a special life…
thank you Heather – I work hard at making it special
I don’t think it’s ever too late to share an empowering story (well, unless you’re dead. :D). You should write that book!
Oh, what an absolutely EXCELLENT picture!
thank you 🙂
Dee-lightful. Love the take on life you have here, kiddo. Am trying to transmit the exact same thing to my kids.
Grins! V
Thank you 🙂
Hi, Great blog! Am hoping to travel around in Philippines sometime this year. Will swing by for more info then 🙂
Thanks for stopping at my blog. I hope you enjoy reading more of it 🙂
Cheers!
Archana
Thank you Archana
Hi, Thank you for stopping by. You have a most comprehensive blog and beuatiful world pictures. I am most interested in your England images as I hope to visi there next year, traveling by rented car and visitng the homes/museums of the great writers.
thank u 4 sharing your world with me. I live in the southwestern united states and will be sharing more of my images on a photo blog which i will create next week. I will stop by and share the address with you. 🙂
thank you bubbly 🙂
What a great picture. Nice blog. Thanks for liking my post about hitching,
cheers
Chris
Wanted to stop by and thank you for popping me a *like* for Abstract Self-Portrait. I’m glad you did as I have just taken a quick look and read at the last few posts and I have to go back and comment on them! Great work 🙂
thank you 🙂
Thanks for visiting my blog. Hope you stop by again soon.
Stunning images – thank you for sharing them.
Thank you so much for checking out my Blog and liking my posts Pillar of the community and My 100th Blog Post.
I love your idea of selecting a word at random from your dictionary as a stimulus for your creativity. As someone who has suffered from writers block resulting in my own strategis for generating ideas this is definitely something I will use in the future.
Thank you skinnywench for dropping by and the “Like”. Yours is extraordinary! I loved your photos, thanks for showing me.
thank you for the return visit 🙂
Thanks a million for visiting my blog and liking my post – really appreciate it. Your site looks great – amazing photos! Will stop by again for your updates.
thank you June 🙂
Hi, thanks for visiting my blog, and for the “like” on our post about “Why we travel”.
Being nomadic has it’s ups and downs, just like ordinary life, but it sure forces you to take things in stride, let go of judgements, and be adaptable.
I see you’ve travelled quite a bit yourself 🙂
You have a great blog!
Cheers
Alison
Totally agree with you Alison – travel is mind expanding and educational about yourself and others 🙂
Thanks for the “like”! Hope you entered the giveaway?
I’m sure there are several books in you….
Hmm might need to do a bit more travelling first 🙂
Thank you so much for visiting my blog. I have enjoyed looking at your lovely photographs and reading about your beautiful life. I was also excited to learn that you are the creative talent behind the Word a Week Challenge. My Golden Retriever blog friend Wiclo (and his very talented human) participate in this challenge. Their “action” photos are wonderful! So happy to “meet” you!
Nice to meet you too Miss Lee 🙂
Than you for visiting my blog. I shall read more of your posts.
THANK YOU Michael 🙂
Hello Skinnywench. I’ve just nominated you for the Reality Blog Award for your truly amazing photos of some really unusual places. I see you’ve got a Reality Blog Award nomination already, but I’m sure you can survive another. For my details, see my blog on http://charliebritten.wordpress.com/
Thank you Charlie – I alwaysa feel honoured when someone nominates me for an award 🙂
Thanks for stopping by SkySense: Theology of Flight! Your blog is wonderful, I can’t think of a better combination than travel and service!
thank you Diane
Thank you for checking out my blog! Look forward to keeping up with your travels.
thank you PS
You’re awesome! You got yourself a new follower 🙂
Wow what a compliment thank you
I’ve dropped by your blog a few times here (and thanks for returning the favor on mine!), and it’s awesome. I’m going to start following it!
thank you and welcome Janice
Thanks for stopping by my blog and liking my Adventure post. Excited to read about all the adventures you have gone on and the ones you are still planning.
I love your outlook on life.
thanks Diane
Dear, thanks for stopping by. I totally heart what you’ve written, I have a heart that loves new places, and gets very restless doing what I do everyday, so whenever i can, I like getting away from my side of the world. I’m glad you liked my Taiwan blog 🙂
PLS: I laughed when you wrote “there’s more to life than wii…”. I should get it to see if I’ll fall in love with it.
thank you for the kind words
Hi! Thanks for stopping by and following my blog, TroupinAround. It is very inspiring to read your story. All the very best in your endeavors and I look forward to reading more from you. Cheers!
-Shru
Thank you Shru 🙂
Hi! Thanks for visiting my blog.
..and…Thought of telling you, you are amazing. Hardly do we find people who courageously follow their hearts. Looking forward to read more of your colorful life & adventures.
thank you CHB what kind words
Beautiful photos! Thanks for the like and for stopping by on my blog!
thank you s and s for taking the time to check out my blog 🙂
Thanks for the like!
Dorinda
What a marvelous photo and a beautiful blog. I love the mermaidness of the photo here! Looking forward to exploring more. And thanks for stopping by my humble blog. My latest post on my other blog, I Draw Cartoons, features me as a young “mermaid”! I envy you your travels. :0)
Thanka You Alli – 🙂
Can do people are so inspiring! just reading about you leaves me as exhausted as that other dear lady over on the Bucket List that I see you have a link to in our sidebar! thanks for stopping by today, always a rewarding experience to follow up on ‘new to me’ bloggers who have liked a post!
Thank you for following my blog and liking some of my poetry ive been a writer for my entire life but this blogging thing is new to me … this is the first chance I had to stop by your site … i dig the vibe and the words … seeing your passion for travel it makes sense youd like my work … thanks for stopping by and keep staying inspired
thank you hg
Judging from your shadow in that picture I would call you skinny mermaid!
Thanks for checking out my blog, it was my first post. I’m moving through some changes right now so your note was encouraging and your site is inspirational. Cheers!
thank you and good luck with your new blog
thanks for liking several posts on my photography blog – http://rjgreenphoto.wordpress.com/ . Have a great day.
Thanks for liking our blog. Your blog is fantastic. We are in the beginning of Donostia-San Sebastian Greeters and We hope you will find this blog valuable and enjoy it!. We’ll follow you. “Agur”=Bye Bye
Thank you so much for reading and liking my blog post! Your blog is beautiful! I agree with the above poster, you should be nominated for an inspiring blog award!
Thank you Cari –
thanks Cari
Hi there, I’ve just nominated you for an inspiring blog award! http://journeycount.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/inspiring-blog-award/
thank you JC – i;m honoured
thank you JC – i’m honoured
Your stories are full of life, and your photographs are getting me excited for going to Kuala Lumpur! Thank you for dropping a like on my startup blog – I’ll try to get mine to be as gorgeous as yours!
Cheers!
thank you for your kind comments – good luck with the blog and happy travelling
I’m letting you know I’ve nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award. Congrats! See link for details. http://joeltipple.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/versatile-blogger-award/
thank you Joel tha is a very generous gesture 🙂
Always so much wonderful information and stories. Enjoying your blog!
thank you and glad to hear my travels are being enjoyed
You are more than welcome and just continue to keep us up to date. Much love and light to you and have a blessed day!
Thanks for checking out my Lost in the Details photo challenge.
Because you like double rainbows…
https://blogagaini.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/a-cappuccino-at-the-end-of-the-rainbow/
It was actually a triple rainbow, but in this photo, only two are seen.
Just popping in to say Wow! What an amazing blog! Your photos are breathtaking! As someone about to venture into the Far East (China) for the first time this summer, this was an eye-opener. So often we arrive at a place not knowing a great deal about it (which wouldn’t be too bad) but then not appreciating where we should go and missing loads.
However, Skinnywench, did you realise that the ‘Personal’ link on your About page doesn’t work (the Volkswagen one), and nor does your email? (I noticed that someone else had probs getting in touch with you.)
Hi Charlie, thanks for the comments. Thanks for pointing those things out unfortunatley as a real techonphb I have no idea hot to fix those things – any ideas?
Hi Charlie, thanks for the comments. Thanks for pointing those things out unfortunatley as a real techonphb I have no idea how to fix those things – any ideas?
Thanks for acknowledging my recent blog, “New C-Section Behind Schedule, but Growth Continues.” Enjoying your blogs from the heart!
Thank you for stopping by my blog, and for introducing me to yours.
Your travel adventures and photographs are inspiring.
thank you 🙂
I too love the self-portrait! Thank you for stopping by my blog!!! Cheers!
skinnywench thank you for the like on my blog just started one month ago and too enjoy hence the start of the blog which as time marches will change and be adjusted. look forward to reading your past, present, and future writings.
jim
thanks Jim nice to meet you
Hi thanks for dropping by my blog and clicking like on one of my posts. Your life is so extraordinarily awesome I am so envious coz I love to travel also and meet different people and culture but that dream is far beyond true. I hope the Philippines is one of your next stop we have interesting and rich culture. Thanks!
Great self-portrait and intention with your blog. I also admire your idea of diving into the dictionary to focus the images for your entries. Lovely work.
Hello, thank you for visiting my blog, to set up a “like” and for following. Let’s stay in touch!
totally 🙂
I enjoy all of your stories and posts – don’t stop.
Thank you I will do my best 🙂
Thanks for visiting and liking a post on The He Said She Said Experience!
Kari: Your photographs are gorgeous!
thak you Kari
thanks kari
Thank you for liking my first blog entry. I love your crisp photos and look forward to discovering more of your stories!
thank yo and good luck with the blog
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Thanks for the “like” on my blog. It’s great to read about where you’ve been and what you’re thinking about. Your stories are wonderful both for the writing and the photos. I’ll be back to spend more time here. Keep on traveling! Cheers!
thank you Catherine
Very interesting story Skinnywench. I’m looking forward to reading some of your future posts
thanks pahern 🙂
Yours definitely is a life well lived, and clearly know how to Travel With Balls! Thanks for checking out our TWB blog — we hope that next time you’re visiting a developing country, you’ll buy a soccer ball, find some kids and give it to them, video the experience and post it on your blog (and our Travel With Balls Facebook page) so that others will be inspired to do the same thing. The GOAL is JOY!
will do TWB
Thanks for the ‘like’ on my blog and giving me the opportunity to visit yours. I shall definitely have a good look around when I have the time as I am an Australiaphile (sp?) but unfortunately missed the boat to make it my permanent home. I do have a son and grand-daughter there though, so have a good excuse to visit.
thank you for your kind comments
Wow! Love your photos…
thanks Lenny
Thanks for visiting my blog, I appreciate it. Thanks for sharing travel tales, I love a good story about being a stranger in a strange land.
So do I 🙂
AnElephantCant think of anything clever to say
This happens time after time
But he wants you to know
That he likes you and so
He says hello with this silly rhyme
Dear Elephant Cant I need you to know that Clever to say is overrated
the fact you took the time to think out a rhyme
makes skinnywench flattered and a little elated
You’ve had such an interesting life! Thank you for sharing it with your blog. It’s very inspiring.
Thank you Robyn I’m so glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for visiting my blog, else I might not have come across yours. Wow.. you’ve taken so many beautiful photos! It must be amazing to be able to visit so many countries and experience so many different cultures. I loved your pictures of Greece, I have visited Greece a couple of times and your pictures reminded me of all the beauty the the country and its islands have to offer. I will definitely return to your blog and check out more of your photo/story collection.
Thanks RMAM – I’m off to soundwave this week so may have some photos of bands etc to post if you are interested.
thank you 🙂
That would be very cool! Soundwave always sounds like a nice festival with great bands every year. Thanks 🙂
Such a great blog! So many posts to read and amazing photos. And thanks for the “like” on my post 🙂
Hi skinnywench, thank you for liking my post “It’s 2013”. I am new in the blog world and it’s nice to know someone just checked in :). Your word a week photo challenge is interesting and I will get in it as soon as I know how to do it 🙂
Hi there! Thanks for visiting my blog! your photos are lovely!
thank you KJ 🙂
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thank you for the nomination – im honoured
Great thats so kind of you Sue. The link is:
http://cardiffian.jomec.co.uk/blog/top-3-blog-posts-exploring-cardiff-camera
Mine is the third blog mentioned! 🙂
Very happy to find your blog and become an avid follower! I relate to so much of what you chose to write here – looking forward to reading.
thank you and welcome 🙂
Hey Sue! Welcome back from Tasmania, good to hear you had a good time. Thanks for the like on my Islands post. It got me a mention on a local online magazine run by our Uni’s Journalism School which was a first for me and a huge delight! So thanks for the inspiration! Karen
well done Karen – so glad my comp has given you inspiration send me a link and I will let people know 🙂
This blog is a true inspiration to me – I’ve always felt I’m a nomad at heart so once I’ve finished my studies, off I will go! I’ve also recently gotten into photography and can’t wait to travel some more and take amazing pictures. Keep up the incredible work – I’ll be reading!!
thank you et – i look forward to seeing your travels too
Appreciate you liking several recent photography posts. Best to you.
hi there! looking forward to exploring the world here because i know that i can travel virtually through your own journeys. will try to be a part of your interesting WORD challenge. count me in as a follower 🙂 — April
Thank you April – Look forward to seeing your entries – love the Philipinnes and really like these photos – Sue
Thanks for stopping by my blog and the like. Love the photo here and how you describe your life. I bet there is a book in you!
Thank you for the “like” on my blog. I came over here to check yours out and love it! The photos are gorgeous – I’m now following the blog.
Thank you for visiting my blog. I launched it, my first ever, on the first of this year and get excited when someone other than my family and closest friends drops in. I very much enjoyed what I read on your blog as well as your pictures. I clicked the “Follow” button so that I may follow you regularly. Your site is very tastefully done. 🙂
Thank u good luck with the blog
Hi, just seen your reblog Weekly Photo Challenge- Smiles from Yemen by http://praguebykaty.wordpress.com/ .
I’ve reblogged it too, then posted it to my new FB http://www.facebook.com/kaliza.mar where I want to share photos & poems from around the world + human rights news.
I’ve just seen that Katy the author has been looking at my blog too. strange coinicidence, internet enigmas 🙂
Love to see you on FB if you can send me a friend request (I over did the limit & can’t send more) or see you on Twitter @kalizamar.
Hugs, Kali
Thank you for taking the time to check my blog. Yours is inspiring, it’s like watching someones dreams come true. I would highly recommend adding China to your ‘Asia’ category 🙂 it’s a beautiful if somewhat chaotic place. The weekly photo challenge is a great idea and wonderful to see! Thanks again. Daisy
thanks Daisy China ius on my list 🙂
I love your blog. You sound so much like me, only minus the kids. That really throws a spanner into the works when you’re a gypsy and have an International travel bug.
Yes it does need a rethink when you have children – different kind of travelling
Thanks for visiting my blog and liking my post! Just read through your post on Bali, brought back fond memories. Awesome pics too!
thank you Chai
Thanks for liking my blog post – glad you did because it opened my eyes to your blog here 🙂 Lovely! Look forward to reading more!
Thank you and welcome
Thanks for stopping by my blog togetherwechange.com! It sounds like you have had quite an adventurous life and I look forward to reading more about your adventures. Thanks again 🙂
thank you jani
We just nominated you for the “One Lovely Blog Award”. Thank you for your beautiful spirit and your blog! https://globalgrazers.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/one-lovely-blog-award/
thank you Jeanette – i am honoured 🙂 🙂
It’s much deserved. I really love your photo challenges. They’re such a marvelous form of virtual tourism and a wonderful way to connect with other bloggers.
Hadn’t been to your blog in some time. Came back to see. It’s still marvelous.
Best wishes.
thanks Dave – same to you 🙂
Hi! Thanks for stopping by my blog so that I could have a look at yours. I most certainly will have a ramble with a cup of coffee close…you’re good at writing too! I travelled the world between 1975 and 1990, working and studying too. In fact I didn’t leave university until 2006. Or…maybe I’ll be back again…Those travelling years I didn’t have much of a camera and all there is left are old paper pictures in books. Sometimes I look at them and remember…and when I look at yours they come back to me, the memories. Nowadays I’m fond of photographing and have bought myself a good enough camera. I don’t travel that much anymore – getting old? No, my life is more settled right now. When I retire (if I’m still in good health) I will go back to the most fantastic places to see them again…maybe, or maybe I will only go to new places. I have found that returning is not always good – things, places and people change into something you don’t like or approve of. Nature is being misused and you don’t even recognize what it once looked like. Well – I’m enjoying your pictures and writings…they are fantastic! Keep it up and enjoy!
thank you – sounds like although you are settled there is still a little bit of an adventurer lurking inside 🙂
Sounds like a journey. Thanks for dropping by my site and for thus providing me with the opportunity to reciprocate. I’m glad I did. I’ll hang around and keep an eye on your postings. Hope to hear from you again soon. And Happy New Year!
happy new year to you too richard
Thanks for stopping by. Glad you liked the post!
Thank you for visiting my blog and liking this post http://craftedliving.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/photography-monday-tivoli/
How strange is it to be writing to someone I know as “Skinnywench” and thinking that is perfectly normal. Thank you for your blog. I have several separate travel blogs and yours demonstrates how to tie them together. I declare that I am not a traveller by nature – I have a whole page on one blog on the topic of things I don’t like while travelling. Nonetheless, I enjoy myself without measure when I return, stop and think about what has just occurred. Best wishes to you from Vancouver Island, Jim.
thank you Jim – although writing to Jim Morrison is a little odd as well !! – good luck in the tying together
Absolutely beautiful photographs and I love the fact that you are a nomad. I definitely will be a follower and look forward to reading all of your posts. Really happy you enjoyed “Greatest Cities”. This one was fun to write and you would not believe the favorable comments I have had. Again, many thanks. Bob
Thank you Bob – I always enjoy reading new blogs and because I love travel find them very interesting
Thank you for stopping by simplydaisies!
It sounds like an exiting life! And I think you’ve made a good choice staying in Australia. It’s a country with wast possibilities and a country that ‘has it all’ (depending on what you’re looking for)
I had the fortune to live in WA for a year in my younger days and it’s a memory I have brought with me through the rest of my life.
So there is a book in there somewhere? 🙂 Yes, I think ther might be! depending a bit on you recollection of things, notes that you have made or pictures that will jog your memory. In fact, I think there might be a book or two in most people once they learn how to write in a way that would be engaging to the readers. Carry on!
🙂 Encouraging words thank you
interestingly wonderful life. thanks for the visit.
great collection of pictures! Thanks for visiting my blog and giving me a chance to see your work!
Congratulations! I love your blog and have nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award.
However, there are rules and I won’t be offended if you don’t want to follow them. I just wanted to share your blog with others.
Ana (http://jubileejourney.wordpress.com)
thank you – I’m honoured
Your blog looks amazing. I look forward to reading your posts. Thank you for stopping by my blog and for the like.
thank you Sabina
you really have clicked some of the finest shots!! 🙂
beautiful!
thank you 🙂
Thanks for visiting and liking several recent posts. Have a great day.
Thanks for stopping by my blog 🙂 Your life certainly sounds very interesting, and I look forwarding to exploring your blog.
Thanks so much for your continued support with your liking of my recent post ‘Emerging Light’ – 🙂
I nominated you for the Liebster Blog Award. Hope you get the pingback, or check out my post to accept the award. I find you very inspiring!
thank you I’m honoured
Thank you for visiting my blog, your adventures look incredible! May need to read up on tips for Australia as I will be heading there in April!
A book in you? Absolutely. I’m publishing my first at 44 about my travels. Make a start and see where it goes. Thanks for the like on my blog.
congratulations and good luck
Thank you for stopping by my blog and liking my post. I appreciate the time you took to do so.
Your blog looks very interesting. I will have to have a good read of it in the future.
Cheers,
Col
thank you Col
Hi, I have nominated you for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award, since I felt your blog has been very inspiring to me. See here: http://stephaniesievers.com/very-inspiring-blogger-award/
Thank you Stephanie 🙂
Skinnywench (love the handle), Thanks for dropping by. I’m saving a closer read of your blog for teatime this afternoon but did want to say that you have an eclectic series of photographs and I enjoy your observations that accompany them.
Thank you Allan
You sound like how I hope to be in ten years time 🙂
minus the health issues I trust 🙂
Gorgeous photos! Makes me want to pack my rucksack right now! Bit hard tho as the baby just woke up etc. My time will come again!! Thanks for visiting The Mindful Mum 🙂
Thanks for visiting my blog. Be in touch. Browse through the category sections,
I feel you may find something of your interest.
Wow. You have done a lot and for all the right reasons. Thanks for dropping by.
Thanks for stopping by my blog, SkinnyWench! I am looking forward to exploring the photos on your blog as I am a fellow world traveler (30+ countries and 5 continents so far). I also share your passion for colors and Beauty in general (that’s what my blog was named after).
look forward to hearing more from you
Thank you for stopping by Mrs. City Boy and liking my post! Your blog is fantastic, especially the photographs — gorgeous!
thank you Becky 🙂
wow what a journey to scoll down the page to leave a comment!! You’ve obviously inspired many! Thanks for sharing 😀
Thanks for stopping by. Enjoying your blog!
Australia is on our list… just not sure when.
Best,
Bill
Hello!
I have nominated you for the Super Sweet Blogger Award – please see my nominations here: http://jackieeatworld.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/super-sweet-blogging-award/
Happy blogging!
thanks Jackie that is very kind of you 🙂
Thanks for stopping by my blog! You have some amazing photos! Following your blog now!
thank you for your kind comments
Thank-you for visiting my page
I thought your photographs were amazing
I love taking pictures my self
The Cornish Coast is beautiful
Especially Cape Cornwall
Have a wonderful week
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Thank you Daniel 🙂
Wow! I will travel vicariously through you until my time comes. Thank you 🙂
Great intro. Your photos are AMAZING!
Thank you Josh
Thanks for stopping by and liking my blog. I liked your photography and will stop by again.
Thanks Ash
Thanks for stopping by. You’ve certainly travelled and your photos are amazong.
Thank you for retuning to my post to check it out
Thanks for liking my blog. I want the world to know what a wonderful place Mexico is!
Thanks for the like on my blog post! Yours is pretty cool too! I’m also on Twitter – @holliegraceanne. Happy blogging!:)
Thanks for dropping by…your blog is MIND-BLOWING!!!!!
Thank you 🙂
We’ve nominated your blog for an award (or two, or three…), if you accept them. If not, just consider it a token of our esteem! 😉 See our post at http://windagainstcurrent.com/2013/01/13/award-appreciation-we-thank-our-readers-for/
Thank you Vladimir – how very thoughtful – as usual I have forgotten how to imbed images so I will relearn – which may take ages – but I will try 🙂
Thanks for checking out my blog and the little like! I really enjoyed your pics of Istanbul. Such a gorgeous city isn’t it? Greetings from Edinburgh
Thank-you for stopping by and liking my post “Sikkim in Snapshots” : http://naiadseye.wordpress.com/2013/01/13/sikkim-in-snapshots/
Thank you so much for stopping by my blog! It is very much appreciated! 🙂
All the best on your travels! Traveling is my favourite pastime and what I do 75% of the time for work as well. Meeting new people is wonderful! 🙂
Thanks for liking my post about airline meals! Which were your most memorable ones?
Also, did you enjoy your time in Indonesia?
I had a great time in Indonesia and plan to return and do some mor travelling there. I have had some awful meals and some good ones – but arab emerates have been the best so far
Your your attitude towards life is inspiring. I hope to be just as nomadic. The photographs further add to the temptation. 🙂
I hope you get there Su
I have nominated you for a Blog on Fire Award! If you would like to accept here’s the link to my post:
http://saresknipping.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/and-the-winner-is/
Thank you very much for liking my blogpost! Like your blog too!
wow! wonderfull collections!! happy traveling and photography!!
Thanks for dropping by my blog and liking it. Good luck with yours it’s most interesting and informative.
My daughter forwarded your blog to me. She is studying in Ghana for a year and spent 6 months in Kenya. I do believe she would love to follow in your footsteps. She loves the world and all those she meets. You have a beautiful blog and are in the middle of a beautiful journey!
Thjank you Vicki – I am hoping to get to Africa for a while some time in the future
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thanks for stopping by and liking my post. You have some very beautiful photos on your site. I enjoyed looking through them.
Thank you Eddie 🙂
Thanks for liking several recent posts. Have a great day.
Thanks for checking out my blog… you live an interesting life … enjoy it.
viLLage even – sigh.
Love your northern vilage tales – thanks for liking my swampy stories!
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Hey there.. I’m just a little behind in catching up on my mail… especially the increased amount I have received since you endorse my ‘Clouds’ entry – thanks again for that 🙂 And also… thanks for liking Early Morning Glittering Icicle 🙂 You do beautiful work, and I am humbled by your kind words concerning mine.
Stan
No Stan thank you – I really like for photography too
Hi
Thanks for visiting my blog. Really liked your, all of your pictures are really incredible. Some of the shots I wished I was actually there.
I could have sworn I’d seen this before and commented. Huh…. Well, I love that picture! Thanks for visiting my sight!
Please delete the duplicate comment (and this one). My comment took so long to post that I hit the “Post Comment” button again thinking that maybe I hadn’t been successful the first time.
THANKS for visiting my “pun-ny” photoblog and leaving a “like.” I can’t help hearing plants, animals, and objects “talk.” The photos under your “Stories and Photographs” link are BREATHtaking!
–John R.: http://TheDailyGraff.com
THANKS for visiting my “pun-ny” photoblog and leaving a “like.” I can’t help hearing plants, animals, and objects “talk.” The photos under your “Stories nd Photographs” link are BREATHtaking!
–John R.: http://TheDailyGraff.com
I loved reading your ‘about’ page. Good on ya.
Thanks so much for visiting my blog. You have some wonderful photos here 🙂
Thanks for stopping by! Happy for you!
What an adventurous life! I love your pics and thank you kindly for dropping by my blog. 🙂
Thanks so much for stopping by my blog. I’m so in love with your photography! You got my travel bug itching again!
Glad you enjoyed the blog – armchair travelling can be just as good at times!
Just wanted to say thanks for visiting my blog recently! I really appreciate it since that is how I found yours. Lovely pictures and cool blog!
Thank you Keliha 🙂
Love to read you blog so I am passing on an award I received for an Addictive Blog: http://sarahryan85.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/a-whole-new-year-ahead/
You will also see on this page your nomination for the Lifetime’s Exploration Award if you would like to accept this badge for your blog. All the best for 2013!
thank u Sarah – a great honour indeed
Hello! Thank you for liking my post. I love your story, please keep writing.
Hello Jaifred and thank you 🙂
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Thanks for visiting my blog and liking some of my poetry. I look forward to going around the world of your blog since there seem to be so many countries you’ve visited. Best wishes!
Thank you Stephen and I look forward to reading more of your poetry
Hello and many thanks for finding the time at the dawn of a new year to drop in and take a look at some of my work – much appreciated – happy new year.
Wow, you have done an amazing amount of travel! Very inspiring!
Thank you so much for visiting my blog sunshinelovingmomma. I love travel, I really wish I could just pick up my things and travel. I am planning on taking my kids to Europe when the youngest turns five. I really want to expand their horizons and my own.
Thank you for following my blog. 🙂
Hi, thanks for stopping by my blog. I really enjoy to see your photo for the weekly word challenge. Keep it up,
Laura
thank you DYKM
Great blog. What blogging is all about. Thank you!
Thank you too
Thanks for liking a bunch of recent posts. Have a Happy New Year!
love to visit new people Rich – happy new year to you too
may i know what camera u’re using?
A Canon EOS 500D – very basic
Wow inspiring blog! Love to connect with other travelers!
Thanks for visiting my blog! We seem to have the travel bug in common…I’ll be visiting here more often!
Thanks for liking my post! It meant that I stumbled upon your beautiful photographs, in return. I will be following you from now on (That sounds so creepy, btw. I mean it in a non-stalkery way!). 😉
Hi SWench!
I have nominated you for the Blog of the year 2012 Award (which I did notice you had already received!). It does not matter I still wanted to present you with it. Thanks for all your great photos & inspirational writing.
Check out my blog for your Award 😉
Thank you Mika – it is always an honour to be nominated for an award
You’re very welcome…
Fascinating intro: delightful energy, interesting aspects, enticing premise…
Thanks for stopping by and liking my post. 🙂 Beautiful inspiring pictures by the way.
Thanks for liking one of my pictures -you take such amazing ones! I absolutely love your eye, you’re so talented! 🙂
All the best, Anna
Thank you Anna
Thank you for stopping by La Maison! Great blog you have there!
I find your curiosity and desire to explore professionally, geographically and emotionally truly inspiring. You’ve done so many different things and this profile right off the bat tells me you have acquired an amazing depth. I’m excited to follow you. Cheers! And thanks for motivating a young person who aims to navigate this work just like you did. -Jonathan
Thank you Jonathan – may your travels be as happy and enriching as mine have been
Great blog! We’re just starting out, and you are an inspiration! Hope to participate in your “word a week” challenge when we get a bit more on the ball, but wanted to stop by and say how much your experiences and perspective resonate.
Thank you and welcome to our community 🙂
This sounds wonderful.
What I’m about to say might sound strange though, but riding a motorcycle is one of my dreams. I want to get a bike next year so I can do that. You said you learned how to ride a motorbike, can you write me or share more about that experience? Would love to learn from you. You sound like you’re living a rich, multicolored life.
Peace & Love,
Lila
Hi Lila, I think I’ve written a story about it have a look under the blogs headings – I went to a learners centre and got my test firs.. Riding a bike is so much better than being stuck in a car – just remember though youare very vunerable on a bike – other drivers do not look out for you – many of my friends who are goo d bike riders have come cropper from car drivers pulling out on them – therefore you need to be road aware, when you buy the bike make sure that your feet touch the ground and that the bike is not too heaviny for you – a couple of my mistakes – good luck
Thanks so much for the tips! 🙂
I have to say – your first comments about being in one place or one job for a short amount of time really hit home for me – and the fact that you said it was “OK” actually clicked with me – I am a similar type of person but always figured there was something wrong with me – glad to hear I’m not the only restless person out there!! Thank you. I look forward to reading your blog
Your welcome – we dont all have to fit into the stereotypes society creates
Travelling … I really should travel more often … but for the moment I’m doing it through your blog and I wanted to share it with others. So I nominated your blog for some awards:
http://mathiaslphotos.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/very-inspirational-blogger-one-lovely-blog-award-blog-of-the-2012-year-award/
All the best
Mathias
than you for the honour 🙂
🙂
Appreciate you liking some recent posts of mine. Best to you.
Thanks for liking my post on my blog: http://paulajophotodesigns.com I hope you will come by often! I am off to check out your photos!
Very interesting photograph! I thought of an Angle and A Dragonfly.
Hey – very nice photography. Thanks for stopping by my little part of the blogosphere.
Thanks for liking my post on my travel blog! http://emunaendeavor.blogspot.com/
Hi,
Love your blog! It is eclectic…love the photos; glad you stopped by my blog as it led me to your’s!
Amiexxx
Appreciate you stopping by my blog and liking several recent posts. Best to you.
Thanks for liking and visiting my blog – you sound soo much like my older sister, her motto has always been, a rolling stone gathers no moss. I’m looking forward to reading about your adventures!
Sounds like your older sister rocks!
Yip, she’s spent the past 8 years travelling, diving and exploring and is back home now, but finding it hard to become part of the real world.
Thanks for the like on my blog!
Your “About” was very well-written. You hit it spot-on and I really liked it.
thank you Shawn 🙂
Thanks for stopping by Bold Conversations. It gave me a chance to read about you and your wanderlust. I’m currently traveling quite a bit to Ecuador and plan on writing my way around the world in the next three years. I also like BucketList Publications so I figure we are all in good company! Looking forward to reading more about your travels and sharing mine. Best wishes.
Best wishes to you too – happy travelling
Thank you for stopping by Pinball Donut Girl. I love your photo challenges!
Wow. I’m thinking you might be my new hero. As I’m thoroughly tangled in the whole house and 2.5 dependents way of life currently, I think I may live vicariously through you until my nest empties up a bit. You go girl! And report back to the rest of us.
Thanks for stopping by and liking my post “India on Roads”. And I am glad that I got a chance to visit your lovely blog. You have some inspiring stories and loved it. Will be following you now on. 🙂
Thank you Mayank – welcome to our community
Thank you for recently visiting my blog. I see you began writing after a health scare. It was one of the reasons I began writing also. Your travels I can never begin to do, however, with your photography I can experience some of the pleasures without the airport security issues! Blessings, Alesia
Well, Holy smokes 🙂 “A word in your ear” for sure Thank you …. “May your troubles be less, and your blessings be more, and nothing but happiness come through your door”.
And I wish the same for you 🙂
Thanks for checking out my blog. I really like what’s on yours too!
Thank you for stopping by my blog ( http://www.islandhomeblog.wordpress.com & http://www.htheblog.wordpress.com) . My husband and I both agree life is more than a job and suburbia and because of this we are always stretching our wings. We do tend to travel with a bit more “baggage” than most as we always have our 5 children with us. I look forward to reading your adventures. It looks like it will be a wonderful read.
Traveling and visiting other cultures – such a wonderful experience that enlightens and alter’s one’s perspective. Bon voyage! Thanks too for visiting my blog.
Thanks for visiting my blog ( wordsartlife,wordpress.com )! Your photos are wonderful!
Thank you CG
Hello Skinnywench, how did you know I lived in a village in Northern England;)
Nice to see your adventures
Maybe you know some people I know – now wouldn’t that be weird 🙂
Seems very likely in this small world. and it usually only takes 3 people to get the connection
Did yo ever get to Dent?
Dent in England?
Yes, in the Yorkshire dales
I love being home with my baby girl and have settled down I guess for a while – but your blog sure makes me miss the road! I’ve done most of Greece and some of Australia …. would give anything for a week on a Greek beach right now with all that food …..
Hi! Thank you for checking out my blog. You have a pretty cool site! I wish you all the best, Diana
I’m going to love reading your blog! I’m already enthused about the “word a week challenge” and I can’t wait to read some of your stories. Thanks for visiting my page and for liking it. Regards, Margaret
Thank you Margaret and welcome
Hi! Thank you so much for dropping by my blog. Very interesting and creative life you lead. Love reading about your adventures. Will be back for more!! 🙂
Wow, I’m jealous of your travelling adventures. I feel the way you do about travel, but I’m now home with 3 kids. Love your photos too
Beautifully written, and super fabulous photograph! I’m going to enjoy hanging out here 🙂
Thanks for checking out my blog, and giving me the opportunity to check out yours! Looks like we have a lot in common. Love your blog and your photos. Look forward to seeing more
Sounds like we have a lot in common. So much in your “about” struck a chord with me. Great blog and I’m following 🙂 ps thanks for the visit!
Hi,
I am a follower and fan of your Blog. I am nominating your blog for the “One Compassionate Blog Award”. Follow my link for the details. http://exxtracts.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/one-compassionate-blog-award/
Thanks for coming to my blog and liking the photos of the seals. They were just so cute especially this curious white one. Its eyes were huge and dark. It was a really cold and wet and windy day but the photos and experience were worth it. I love your shadow photo here and admire your candour.
Thanks for “liking” my blog! Your photography is amazing – it inspires me to make mine better!
Thanks Cath – it took a while to develope but so worth it in the end
Very Impressive. Thanks for stopping by my blog. I hope you enjoy my ramblings about a 16 day adventure spanning 2 cruises and our train travel in Europe.
hey , thanks for the like…
like your blog and looking forward to reading the travel posts…
After just a few minutes of browsing, I’m pretty impressed with both your photography and what you’ve accomplished in life. Hats off to you…
It’s an honor to have someone so well travelled, who expresses herself so well and who inspires many to stop by at my little watering hole. Reading your log inspires me to write some more. Thank you for your like and for opening my mind’s eye to so much more of this beautiful, wide, wonderful world.
thank you mano – very kind words
Thanks for dropping by and liking my post. Appreciate the look in by someone so well travelled and talented. Really love your photography.
Thank you Valiente – i love surfing and finding new bloggers
Thanks for visiting my blog at http://www.ourlittlefamilyadventure.wordpress.com and liking a post there. You’re living a life many only dream of. Please keep the stories and photos coming.
Hi, thank you for liking my post on Vietnam Food. Yours looks great. Look forward to seeing more. 🙂
You liked my post this morning…I’m so glad you did, because I LOVE your blog!! Glad to have found it! Your photos are wonderful and such an inspiration for travel. Borneo…2 years ago. magic.
Thank you Mia – it was wonderful wasn’t it – I’d like to go back
A person after my own heart. Do love the nomadic life, although I’m more settled now. Still I’m off whenever I get the chance.
I’m inspired by the fact that you went back to school at 32. That’s exactly the point where I’m at now. As in, I want to go back to school but the thought of incurring debt just gives me chills – the bad kind. Did you manage it without debt?
I had a mature student grant from the government and I worked in the holidays for a temping agency
oh umm .. did you get a pingback from this post of mine ?
http://the-serenity-space.com/2012/10/19/r-e-a-l-i-t-y/ …
i was remiss in not notifying people directly of my nomination and relied only on the pingbacks … something I will not do in the future lol
Thanks for stopping by my blog – yours is fab! Keep at it, I’ll be checking back again.
Your photos are stunning and your words are beautiful, hope you are in good health. I hope my life will be like yours, travelling all over the world meeting amazing people and having amazing experiences 🙂
I hope you have a life time of travel Katrina 🙂
Hi there – thanks for stopping by and liking my post 🙂
I think we would get along.
Thanks so much for visiting my site and leaving a footprint.
Hi, “Skinny”, Thanks for stopping by ritaLOVEStoWRITE. I love the photo above your “about” page. It’s like a desert mermaid. Very cool. You have a nice blog going here. Keep it up. I’ll be back. Cheers, Rita
I loved this blog at fist sight, I love travelling too, meeting new people and new cultures is one of the best experiences for me. Your pictures are absolutely great!
thank you
Thanks for stopping by the roadlessgraveled. I’m going to enjoy your blog as well! Cheers! Keep travelin 🙂
Hi!
I have nominated you for the One Lovely Blog Award. For the details, you can see it on my blog here: http://klling.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/my-first-one-lovely-blog-award-nomination/
Have a great day,
Kim
Thanks for liking one of my blog posts! 🙂 I really appreciate it! 🙂 Nice blog you’ve got here, great photography! 🙂
Thanks for coming by my new blog! I love your photography and will come back often. I hope you will come by my blog again.
Thanks for stopping by my blog and liking several recent posts. Best to you.
I used to be dyslexic but now I am K.O. Sorry, that’s what passes for humor in Texas. Thanks for stopping by my admittedly quirky travel blog, http://www.travelbyterry. I am glad you enjoyed “A Walkabout at the Westin Kierland.” There are lots of really nice photos here.
Hey skinny, you should correct “ASIA” in your categories and delete this comment, Tay 😉
Thanks Tay – dyslexia kicks in again
You’re welcome. Laos and Philippines too BTW and do not worry about dyslexia, everytime I type too fast, THAT becomes taht for no good reason LOL
What can I say my photos hardly hold a candle to yours, but your likes is very much appreciated.
Love reading and looking at your blog – sue
Thank you for visiting my blog, Dabble. I am enjoying reading yours, and looking forward to future posts! 🙂 Thanks again,
Laura
Thanks for liking my latest blog!
Hello Skinnywench!
Finally, I got to the end of all your comments, so that I can post this:
Congratulations!
I have nominated you for the “One Lovely Blog Award”.
You have such a wealth of amazing things to share – I love it!
If you wish to accept the award, and display the badge, please visit:
http://wrightonthebutton.com/2012/10/17/one-lovely-blog-award/
Allison
Thank yoy Allison – I’m honoured. any ideas how to imbed an award – I have not got a clue
You can copy and save the badge image from my page on your hard disk. The insert into a draft post (check the “open in a new window” option), so that you have you own URL of it. Preview your draft post and double click on the badge image. Copy the URL.
Then go to your Dashboard>Appearances>Widgets. Click on the “Image” widget and drag it to the place where you want it to appear on your sidebar. You will see a Down Arrow on the widget now parked in your sidebar. Click on that. Copy and paste the image URL into the Image widget dialogue box on your sidebar. Hit save.
To check it is in the right place, go to “Read Blog”. If not in the right place, fiddle and eff around by going back to Appearances >Widgets, and drag your new image widget to where you do want it. Hope that helps. WordPress does have a help section on this. Search for “Image widget”.
OMG – that sound complicated – I’ll give it a go – thanks
Thanks for visiting my blog today. I could find myself spending way too much time over here. 🙂
Love the silhouette on the sand, I’m following now.
Thank you for stopping by my blog! Your travels sound absolutely amazing. Keep it up! 🙂
Thank you for liking my Big Lobster! I like your Blog and just adore the photography. I’ll follow your Blog and hope you will too with mine and drop by again.
I have nominated you for The Reality Blog Award http://luccav.wordpress.com/. 🙂
Thank you I’m honoured
You’re welcome
“It also reminds me that there is more to life than Wii, money and possessions such as life, love, friendship, nature, and community.” – Wow – couldn’t have said it better myself… (and… as I realize it, I try to say that same thing in most of my stories… Take care of yourself with that health scare – Blessings on you – and keep writing and sharing,
Tom
Thank you Tom – I have recovered well.
I’ve been enjoying your blog for over a month now! I don’t remember how I happened on it, but glad I did! I don’t get a chance to travel like I dreamed years ago I would….until I look at your pictures….thank you!
Thanks Denise – armchair travel can be just as good 🙂
Just wanted to let you know I have nominated you for the Beautiful Blogger Award. I hope this will be welcome news for you. Some people choose not to participate, others enjoy the opportunity to visit new-to-you blogs and to be visited by new-to-you bloggers. To read more about the award and accepting this nomination, visit my post at http://globetrottersara.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/speeches/
Thank you Sarah – how very kind 🙂
You have found la joie de la vie! Hang on, I predict the rest will continue to be at least as amazing as what has already happened. I shall look forward to the book.
Thanks for stopping by one of my blogs.
Thanks for stopping by! I loved your bio and the photos too. I love what I do too and it makes all the difference! Stay in touch!
David
Thank you for stopping by my blog and reading about my Australian adventures. It looks like you have lived or traveled many places, and I am interested in seeing more!
Thanks for stopping by my blog! I love this picture, and I look forward to reading/seeing more of your posts!
Thank you Alison 🙂
I love your photograph and look forward to reading your blog.
Welcome to our little community pam 🙂
You’ve been nominated for the Reader Appreciation Award. If you like to play along with such antics, pick it up at http://colourcottage.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/reader-appreciation-award/ If you don’t, your blog is still appreciated. 😉
Thank you Pia what an honour – Sue
I love the photo above–especially because I love mermaids! Thank you for liking my posts Bagno della Luna and Incubation. Your site is beautiful!
I came to you blog after you were kind enough to “like” one of my photographs. Each day is a gift and you are using your’s wonderfully. I think I’ll stick around to see what’s next.
Thanks so much for stopping by my blog. You do beautiful work and I look forward to hearing and seeing more.
Stan
Burnett Freelance Imagery
Hi, and thank you so much for liking my recent post on my blog Starlight Affinity. I am enjoying your beautiful photography, and taking your life of adventure as inspiration! Peace to you, Tina
Thanks for your like on my blog at http://www.midihideaways.wordpress.com!! Love your pictures and stories, I’ll be back!
Thank you – Sue
Am new to you and your blog (and pretty new to most blogs, really) so thanks for the introduction! Gorgeous pics and am compelled to come back for more tales of adventure. Once again, thank you for sharing!
Everyone should have at least one book in them, depending on how long they have been hanging around here! Fascinating info!
Thanks for stopping by my blog at http://vjdaroundtheworld.wordpress.com . I look forward to hearing more stories – may your feet continue to carry you everywhere your heart desires to go.
It is great, and I have to say WoW.. 🙂
Salam from Indonesia,
Aan
Salam Aan 🙂
Thank you for reading La Dolce Vita on featherglass, and thus giving me the chance to visit your space. You have a good style of writing! Keep it up and keep doing what you like. : )
Thank you for the like of my post “Travel Theme: Foliage” http://wp.me/1a6Eg.
thankx for the love on http://brettfish.wordpress.com/ and really dig your mermaid pic [intentional or not] at the top here and the idea of passing on stories of people you have met – sounds like you have had and continue to have an exciting adventure-filled life – keep on!
So wonderful that you’ve travelled and experienced so much! Will be following your very interesting blog!! And thanks for looking by mine!
I Love Nomads!!
Thanks for stopping by and liking my blog, Dear Ms. Migraine. You have lived quite the adventuresome life. Good for you.
Thanks Lori – I like reading your blog – we have migraines in common – keep well
Well that isn’t the coolest thing to have in common now is it? 😀
You have been tagged by me in this week’s Tag Blogathon.
Visit my post for more details: http://ohmsweetohmdotme.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/the-tag-blogathon
Thanks Allan I will check it out 🙂
Thanks for coming again and liking my post “Splish Splash”.
Thanks for visiting my blog. I’m so glad you did, because, if you had not not, I might never have discovered your own wonderful blog.
Tis an interesting site you have here. My thing is photography and watching paint dry. In my life I’ve been to half a dozen Far Eastern countries but did so while serving in the USAF. I wouldn’t consider myself a tourist in that situation. I served in the unpopular war. There were no yellow roses waiting for me upon my return to the United States. In fact, the “welcomers” spit on me, calling out “baby killer”.
Now retired & living alone, by choice, I basically do as I wish. That includes a lot of riding/driving around the Northwest photographic all thing nature. I’m an avid reader & reborn writer since starting to blog just a month ago.
I’m listed as one of your many followers & readers. I’ll check in now & then if a post prompts me to comment. Keep up the good work. – Bob
Thank you for your comments Bob – Please continue to take photographs and write – I will check in on you regularly 🙂
nice work! +++
Like it!
Congratulations!
You have just received the So Sweet Blogger Award for being so AWESOME!
Please check out my blog for details, post the award on your sidebar and spread the love to some of your favorite bloggers!
http://foodandotherstuff.com/2012/09/27/how-sweet-it-is-so-sweet-blog-award/
Thank u how cool
You are welcome! Well deserved!
Hi. Thanks for visiting my blog a while back – apologies it’s taken me a while to visit yours and say thanks. I have so enjoyed reading about your travels – thanks for bringing me here.
Thanks for visiting and liking my blog Sue. Now that is what I call a great “About” page…:0)
Thanks Mark 🙂
Lucky to find this blog…its wonderful (all photos). would luv to read ur book. so plz write it
Thanks Rajeev – one day maybe 🙂
Thanks for liking the Beagle Project. You’ve got some great photographs here on your blog! Look forward to exploring more.
Thanks Rob – liked your blog too 🙂
Thanks for visiting and liking our blog post. I love reading other people’s travel stories, and yours are so funny and well-written that I will definitely be coming back for more!
Thank you Jo – welcome to word in your ear 🙂
Appreciate you stopping by and liking my Weekly Challenge post Solitary.
Thanks for visiting our blog – we’ve just started it so it’s nice to know at least someone has seen something and liked it! 😉 I love your introduction and feel that we have quite similar sensibilities. I too am not sure about the traditional career, family path and so have set out on a 12-month global adventure to try and discover where my true passions lie. I look forward to reading more of your posts!
Welcome and thank you
Thank you for visiting whilst on your travels. Really enjoying your images and writings. I also indulge in the shadow portraits whenever I want to remember that I was in the same place as my camera. Congratulations skinnywench, a great Blog.
Thank you windhound 🙂
Now that’s an interesting photograph.
Thanks forstopping by my blog today. I’m glad you did…sure blog is bella interesting. I hope you enjoy mine
Wow! You have a very successful blog! Thank for liking one of my posts, such an honor! God bless ma’am 🙂
Anxious to find out more! Thanks for visiting my blog.
What a beautiful introduction. I wish everyone had a story like that: one of going out and finding things, not because you feel lost or bored, but because… there is just SO MUCH TO SEE, so much to experience as a living, breathing person. Glad to know I’m not alone in this way of thinking, although, unlike you (I bow down!), I’m just at the start of my global journeys. But like I said, so glad to know I’m not alone in this way of feeling and thinking. Safest travels to you.
Thank you 🙂 🙂
thanks for visiting my blog and the ‘like’. loved your blog and pictures are beautiful …:)
Thank you :):)
I like coming to your site just so I can look at your header photo. It is so relaxing. Thanks for visiting and liking my Weekly Photo Challenge post Everyday Life.
Thanks for liking my new post on somewheregermany.wordpress.com.
Thank you for visiting my blog and liking it.You have awesome material. I want to return and read it all.
Thanks
Awesome blog! Thank you for stopping by my blog!
Thank you for reading and enjoying my Haiku, I appreciate it.
…P.S. who says being ‘barrack for Chelsea football’, isn’t creative?!! 😉
My father and grandfather brought us up on Chelsea
thanks for the community nudge to a good job. I’m really behind in my posting so I am trying to catch up. Its difficult to keep up with all the amazing experience and make it enthralling for someone that didn’t get the pleasure to experience. Still deciding my audience and how I want to display it all. but again, thats for the like.
thanks for the like!
pleasure I enjoy looking at other blogs 🙂
Thanks for the like of my “Sunset”.
Well it was good 🙂
Hi. I am a newbie, so I haven’t followed anyone yet, but you may be my first! Moreover, thanks for liking one of my pics today!
Welcome and good luck with the blogging 🙂
I really like that image. Thanks for visiting thinkingcowgirl even if she was talking about boots! ..
ooops walter de la mare 😛 apologies 😀 lol i love t s elliots work 🙂
thanks for visiting my site 🙂 enjoyed reading your blog .. loved your poem in stylish imitation of t s elliot 🙂 it made me smile 🙂 brightest blessings 🙂
thanks for visiting my blog. Your nomadic lifestyle looks truly amazing.
Thanks for stopping by my blog! Your photos are beautiful
Thanks for your visit to my blog. Glad you “liked” my post of Lake Hancock.
Thank you for visiting us today – I’ve been looking round yours and love your photos. You have certainly seen a lot of the world; I look forward to seeing it through your eyes.
Wendy
Thank you Wendy 🙂
Hi! I really appreciate your works so here’s one lovely blog award for you! 😉 http://haikucollection.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/one-lovely-blog-award-sophia/
Thank u Sophie 🙂
Thank you for liking my post “Stripes all Over”.
Thank you for your like! I have just started reading your “about” but there is so much more to discover!
You obviously have all the ingrediants – sit down for ten years and write it.
Thanks for stopping by my blog. hope you come back. i enjoyed you about. i really hope that your feeling better now.
My, you do get around and what an amazing life! Just wanted to say you have quite the blog here and to thank you for your visit to art rat cafe, much appreciated…
Thank you for visiting my blog. It is always great to meet new writers/image makers!! Peace…
Really LOVE the photo and resonate with so much that you share here. Looking at the list of some of the places you’ve been to brings back many memories and/or yearnings. I’ll drop by later to read more. Thanks for the like:-)
thank you and welcome 🙂
Great to meet a fellow nomad. Thanks for stopping by http://www.blackinlatinamerica,com to read Five Things To Know About House Sitting http://wp.me/p1xI5P-bD
Hey there, .. great blog!
🙂
Hello,
I hereby nominate your most deserving blog for “One Lovely Award”. For more details please go to my post :
http://exxtracts.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/one-lovely-blog-award/
for fulfilling some rules/ formalities. Should you have any question please let me know for clarification.
Thank you Anil -you are very kind 🙂
You are welcome. All the best.
Your images are truly beautiful, and your blog is inspiring! Thank you so much for sharing!
Thanks for visiting again and liking my Urban Weekly Photo Challenge submission.
We’ve nominated you for the “Capture the Colour” contest. See details at http://windagainstcurrent.com/2012/08/27/capture-the-colour/. We’d love to see your photos in response to this challenge!
I’m loving your gorgeous photography! You seems like you have experienced so much. Just letting you know that I nominated you for the Beautiful Blogger Award (http://yablogtherapy.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/award-beautiful-blogger/) 🙂
Wow – thank you ybt – what an honour 🙂
Thank you for stopping by my blog and liking one of my posts. You truly have a gift from God to see beautiful things and capture them in photos!
Thank you WBR 🙂
Thanks for your”like” on a few of my photos. I like your site, your feet must “itch” more than mine and thats saying something.
I have nominated you for the Beautiful Blogger Award! See my post titled It Feels Good
Thank you – that is quite an honour 🙂
Thank you for stopping by Still Times. What amazing blog and artistic flair you have going on. Love it! So if you don’t mind me asking, how did you come up with your blog name? Quite an eye catchy name…lol. Looking forward to reading and looking at more of your work.
Maria
Thank you Maria, SW was a nickname given to me by an old BF 🙂
Hello and thank you for the visit 🙂 Im guessing you are Pisces or Aquarius! not that I believe in all that nonsense 😀
Of course not but you are close
Sounds like you’ve still got a lot of ‘travelling’ in you…
Thanks for stopping by my blog, Travelat21. While I am just beginning to enjoy travelling you seem to have done soooo much. I am so glad to read your blog and completely share the same though on ‘job for life’.
Being in the final year of college, I find it so difficult to choose between being a ‘corporate slave’ which pays me mighty well or to be who I want to be- i.e write and travel. Your blog has really inspired me. Thanks and Keep writing.
thank you Janani
I am also a professional traveler at heart, but money and commitments make it difficult to do. I keep dreaming about it though… 🙂
Thank you for visiting my blog today and liking “The Mystery of Self”. I’m thrilled your visit brought me to your blog. You have some fantastic images and I can’t wait to learn of your travels and the wonderful people you’ve met along the way.
Thank you Robyn – keep up the writing 🙂
Thanks for liking–and I luv your pics! 🙂 Can’t wait to check out more of them.
Thank you Paulina 🙂
Dear SW, I have absolutely no doubt that you have a book–or two or three or four–in you! Thanks for stopping by Writing Between the Lines.
Thank you Naomi – you keep posting as well 🙂
Hi Skinnywinch, You are having an interesting life. My wife have been traveling around United States since 1996 in a motor home,several different ones. We are presently looking for a home on Strom Thurmond Lake in Georgia. Been shooting photos since mid 70’s. love photography. Jim
Thank you Jim – sounds like you have a pretty good life as well – I would love to up sticks and head off around Australia – soon maybe 🙂
Two words: Love it! I hope to have time to read more in the future!
Thank you BJ 🙂
You’re welcome 🙂
What a beautiful blog! Your photography is gorgeous! Thanks so much for stopping by my blog and liking a recent post—it’s much appreciated!
Thanks Marie 🙂
Thanks for visiting and liking my post…and I feel you have one life to live and should travel and see many places..you are on the right path…All the best.
Thank you Shivani – and good luck with your blog too 🙂
So nice to meet you, and I am glad you enjoyed blog. I enjoyed browsing through your blog…You have a very creative talent for writing and taking photo’s,
Thanks for stopping by and liking my post. I thoroughly enjoyed browsing through your blog. Your photography is beautiful.
Thank you ss – I enjoyed your blog as well
Their is defo a book in you as you are adding new interesting chapters daily, so hope u can publish it soon 😀
Good riddance and hope to meet you one day somewhere when are paths cross outside of virtual world…
Thank you muppetofaman – although good riddance and hope to meet you somewhere are slightly opposites – thank you for the smile
hahahaha I totally used the phrase in a wrong way… I was translating from Croatian, a saying that we use and made a mistake but at least I learned something new…
“Meaning
An expression of pleasure on being rid of some annoyance – usually an individual.”
You got it 🙂
I love this picture!!!! A lot! Thanks for visiting.
Thanks iRucci – same same 🙂
Hi! Thanks for stopping by my humble blog– and am I happy I got to see yours! Jut wonderful images, and I love your take on things. Especially connect with your pics from the Philippines– having just returned from a 2 year stint there myself, I find myself missing the friends we’d made, the places we had the chance to see. You’re images are a great reminder of the time.
Cheers and all the best-
Marc
Thanks Marc – I be you must have some wonderful images too – can’t wait to see them 🙂
If your heart lie’s on the open road-you live on it.
How true 🙂
This photo of your shadow is exquisite! What a great idea, too.
I just stopped by to thank you for liking a post from my last year’s blog. It always gives me a lift. (I don’t have the kind of following you have here!) So, thank you. 🙂
I hope, too, you will visit my current blog (though I will admit to being partial to the one you looked at).
I’ll be back to look more at yours!
Thank you Riba – I love visiting other people’s blogs – there is so much talent out there – keep in touch 🙂
Stumbled upon you, and will read! thanks! looking good so far!
Thanks so much for checking out my lifestyle blog, Bmore Energy! Your blog looks inspiring and beautiful. I’ve added you to my blogroll.
Thank you and I enjoyed your post too 🙂
Hello. I have been enjoying your photography and have nominated you for blogging awards at atasteofmorning.com
Thank you Laurie – How kind 🙂
That is one of the best “about” photos I have seen! Very clever!
BTW: Thanks for visiting my blog.
Thanks Doug 🙂
Hi:
Thaks for stopping by my little Crescent Moon blog and giving it a look & a like.
Your life, travels and photojournalism have produced a truly impressive collection of images.
I am in awe that you would take the time to view my amateur work!
Take care and keep in touch,
Paz
YOu too Paz 🙂
I absolutely love the intensity of the colour in your photos. Extremely uplifting. Thank you for sharing them. Health & Happiness 🙂
Thank you CPS 🙂
Thank you for visiting Life is an Exquisite Journey! I am so looking forward to getting to know you and joining your journey. Your spirit speaks to the wanderlust and serendipity that fills my heart and spirit. It feels so wonderful to be here in your space.
You sound like my long lost sister. Keep writing – I do think there is a book in there.
It seems that I’ve found someone just like me. I too like anything creative. And can not see myself being tied to a J.O.B., although I did work hard and achieved the professional level that I never dreamed of achieving when I arrived in this country in my early 20s.
I will subscribe to your blog to be on the look-out for new post!
Have a nice day,
Jean
Hi! Thanks for visiting my blog. I’ve been really enjoying reading through yours! I read here that you went back to school for a Masters in Social Work… I’ve been thinking about doing starting my masters in social work (international) next year and I was wondering if you could share some of your experiences about life as a traveling social worker with me. I’d really appreciate it! Thanks! -Mary
Hi Mary, I’m kind of limited as I only speak English and a little Spanish. I think that you would need approval by the relevant social work association for the country you want to work in (if there is such a thing) Defo for Australia and England – parts of Europe as well. Other than that there are organisations that advertise for social workers in different countries. Of course if you were going to do vol work – social work degree will always be a good start 🙂
Hi! I always love your amazing travel photos 🙂
I’ve started a feature on my blog where I speak to people who’ve recently travelled somewhere interesting, just a mini interview and a few of their photos, plus a link to their blog/website/flikr etc. It’s still a brand new feature, it looks like this http://emilyluxton.co.uk/category/postcard-from/
If you’re interested in taking part I would love to hear about one of your recent trips. Drop an email to me at eluxton@hotmail.co.uk and let me know where you would like to tell me about – then I can send you some questions 🙂
Thanks Emily I will check out the feature and get back to you – what sort of angle are you looking for?
No angle in particular, I’m enjoying getting lots of different perspectives on travel and different countries. I’ve just been asking a set of similar questions each time and then tweaking the format into a nice little interview! I’m mainly keen on showing off the fantastic photos people create while they’re away!
Hello! 🙂 Just want to let you know that I’ve nominated your blog for the One Lovely Blog Award! Follow this link to find out what to do next http://thestuffofstartling.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/one-lovely-blog-award/
Thank you – how kind 🙂
You are very welcome 🙂
This photo is amazingly creative. I’m looking forward to spending more time on your blog!
What a wonderful life you are living and enjoying – I most definitely think there is a book in you!
Great blog! Sounds like we have a lot in common. I hope your health scare turned out to be nothing serious. I know the feeling! I will visit you often – I love the photos. Maybe you should plan to meet us along the Kabul to Cork route!
Thank you Gstringers- I feel lucky to still be here. Will keep track of where you are in the world – who knows we may meet up sometime somewhere 🙂
Wow… so inspirational! Your blog looks amazing… I will have to dig deeper here. I very much relate to your philosophy and have two more weeks before I finish up work and hit the road for a year at least. Solo mission, celebrating 30. I hear stories such as yours and feel so freshly inspired again, and sure I am following the right road for me. Good luck! 🙂
Thank you and good luck with your travels 🙂
thanks for stopping by and liking my post on Life on a Sunflower. I don’t travel much but I love seeing where others have been and looking at the photos of things that spoke to them on their travels. You have some very nice photos and have been to some very interesting places.
Thank you Eddie 🙂
Keep on posting your adventures, it’s a lovely blog.
*anna
What a amazing photos! you have a wonderful collection. looking forward to see more your works.
Thank you for visiting my blog (^_^)/
Thank you Violet 🙂
Your blog is one of the most interesting I’ve come across. From the bird digging cat story to your childhood and travels. Will definitely stop by here again
Thanks for stopping by my blog too:-)
Thank you Anurada 🙂
Hi Sue
I just nominated you for the One Lovely Blog Award. You can find the details here, http://authenticallyannamarie.wordpress.com/. Looking forward to your future postings.
Anna Marie
Thank you Anna Marie – How kind 🙂
I’m loving your blog! The photos are fantastic and your voice/commentary is informative and funny. Thanks so much for stopping by Travel Oops and liking the Pinnacles story. (It’s funny because the next post I have is being at Tanah Lot, trying to catch the beautiful sunset while my three-year-old daughter has “Bali Belly” and we have to figure out the inner workings of a squat toilet.) I loved your toilet advice.
Thank you Steph 🙂
Hello 🙂 Thanks so much for your like on my post! You have a beautiful blog. I love your use of color in your photographs!
Lovely little blog you have here. I love that you’re just sharing where life takes you with (seemingly) no plan
Thank you Sarah – I plan quite well but the blog is like a butterfly and flys to different places
It’s me again! I didn’t know where to post this so I’m doing it here (and couldn’t find your email). My picture the world is up at: http://www.thedepartureboard.com/picture-the-world-project-guatemala
I had earlier nominated your lovely blog for this challenge. Not sure if you saw it or not but the departure board asked me to inquire and see if you wanted to do your country. It is really cool and not hard! Check it out at: http://www.thedepartureboard.com/picture-the-world project. I bet you could do something great!
Thanks for stopping by my blog… I’m gonna snoop at your photo’s now!
Wonderful site and photos
Thank you Nveam 🙂
No problem : )
You have a really nice site! Lovely photography!
Thank you MC
Hi SW, and thanks for the ‘Like’ on my latest blog post 🙂
BTW, you have some great posts yourself – Slowly working through them 🙂
Beautiful blog and beautiful pictures all around. Great work!
Thank u sutira
Thanks for visiting one of my blogs. I am glad you enjoyed today’s post. I do understand about wanderlust! 🙂
Perhaps you would like to check out my other blog: http://poetryphotosandmusingsohmy.wordpress.com
Kind regards,
Léa
Thank you Lea I will 🙂
Thanks for stopping by and glad it brought me back to your blog. Your photography is amazing! Love the travels to Asia!
Thanks for stopping by my blog!! Love your blog!
Sorry, I meant I used to travel..I still like it and still travel but not as much now as I did before….
Thank you, dear nomad, for finding my blog and leaving the like. I used to like travelling and did a fair bit around the lovely islands that make up my tropical home before I had my own family. Right now I am happy and enjoying the “mortgage and 2.5 kids” (I’ve got 3 kiddos of my own) 😉
Your blog is beautiful and I hope you’ll get to visit us again soon.
Warmest regards,
Mary from the Philippines
Hi,
Thank you very much for stopping by my blog and linking my post, I really appreciate -:) I love the way you express yourself in your blog, I can relate so easily to it! Looking forwarded to finding out more.
Daniela
Thanks for stopping by my blog. We’re on the same page re the mortgage and 2.5 kids 🙂 Glad to see I’m not the only one out there. Keep it up!
You too Mary 🙂
We share the same passion…”I love travelling, meeting people and experiencing new cultures.” 🙂 meanwhile, thanks for stopping by our blog and liking our latest post on Phuket. 🙂
I enjoyed it 🙂
Thank you for stopping by my Blog and leaving a like.
Clever pic… Kudos for living life as you want to, you only live once 🙂
I just wanted to send a quick note of thanks for the like on my blog!
Thank you so much for loving the arts, and being the creative adventure that you are!
ahh…pouring your heart and your life in your blog !
wonderful…gives me strength !!
thanks for dropping by mine !
Thank you Prashnt – you keep blogging too – I enjoyed your post
that makes two of us then ! 😉
happy blogging !
I nominated your for this…check it out!
http://thirdeyemom.com/2012/06/21/picture-the-world-guatemala/
I love what you’re doing & have done! Your ‘About’ is as fascinating as it image is simply beautiful. Seems like the only continent you still need to explore is Africa?!
Don’t look yet, I haven’t written the post yet, but I am nominating you for the One Lovely blog award. You certainly don’t need the validation of an award, but I do enjoy your site, and I appreciate that you gave me some words of encouragement as I was just starting my site. Congratulations on keeping a great site going!
Thank you tc – you keep on blogging too 🙂
I’m hooked now! Thanks for inspiring me!
Hey! I just wanted to let you know I nominated you for the One Lovely Blog award 🙂
Thank you VBB – I’m honoured 🙂
Thanks for joining me for Sindy’s Saturday Satsang, LOL
Gotcha! I’ve nominated you for the Lovely Blogger Award, drop in to my page http://eat-o-live.com/ for details – congrats!!!
Thank you – I’m honoured
Hi, thanks for liking my recent post “Shady Lady” because it brought me to your blog and your beautiful, captivating photos and writings. I enjoy seeing and learning about corners of the world, and will definitely be following your adventures. Cheers, – Rob
Thank you for your kind words Rob – I’m glad you enjoy my posts 🙂
I love your blog! That’s why I’m nominating you to the Lovely Blog Award! Check out your nomination here – http://ilovesunsetsbythesea.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/i-got-nominated-for-the-one-lovely-blog-award/
Wow ILSSBT – Thank YOU 🙂
Thank you for visiting fivemakesseven.com and liking my post about taking my boys away to Bermuda. Your site looks divine, such inspiring photography. There is beauty to be found everywhere in the world, every day, every hour. Keep following your bliss! I send you many good wishes.
Thank you Jennifer – and the same to you.
Fantastic, good for you 🙂 Keep on doing what your doing!
BTW, thanks for stopping by The Legion of Door Whores and leaving a like for one of my images, it is appreciated 🙂 If you have time, please drop by my photo blogs http://reflectionsofchina.wordpress.com and http://moreimagesfromme.wordpress.com, I do hope you enjoy what you see there!..You have a really nice site here, certainly worthy of a follow. Regards Mark
Thanks Mark – I love your photos too 🙂
Particularly great photos!
Thanks for visiting the Jenn stories, and for “liking” my husband’s guest-post!
Pleasure Jen – I loved the post
Thank you visiting and liking my “Boracay 2012: Preview Post” I wish I could also travel more. 🙂
nominated you for an award!
http://dianajuvenille.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/kreativ-blogger-award/
Thank you Diana – I’m honoured. 🙂
Thank you Diana 🙂 I’m honoured
Hi there, I am one of your follower and . . . congratulations, I have nominated you for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award! I hope you will enjoy it.
Details are on my blog
http://sharingmyitaly.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/oh-the-small-things-that-make-a-bloggers-day-brighter/
Thank you SMI – Im overwhelmed 🙂
Hi! I’ve nominated you for The Pink Tree Award. Please find it here. http://hazrock.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/the-pink-tree-award/ . Thank you!
Thank you very much Hazrok 🙂 I will definately check it out
I like how you summed up your adventures!
I relate to the nomadic enjoyment!
I started dreaming of a bus and adventuring before I was ten.
Thanks for sharing some great images and stories
Rosalindentree.wordpress.com
Thank you Rosalin 🙂
Your travels and insights are fascinating and your voice is inspirational! I”m lucky to have been stumbled upon by you!
Thank you Leo
Thanks Leo 🙂
congratulation… awesome work… i love it!!!
Thanks for dropping by my new blog UMLUNGU… i appreciate your support!
Safe travels,
g*
Thank you Grant and the same to you 🙂
Thanks for liking my blog entry. Must catch up with you cos we have so much in common which is freaky cos I hadn’t mentioned any of that on my blog! Life is a bit manic right now but will b following you. Hungryheart62
Welcome 🙂
You are doing what I dream about. Write the book.
Thanks for the encouragement OC 🙂
I think I’ve found a new friend! I really enjoyed reading your “About” page and can relate. I look forward to reading more of your posts. Thank you for visiting my site and liking, “Color Me Happy.”
So glad you like the blog – will be back yours as well 🙂
Thanks my friend!
We’ve nominated your wonderful blog for some awards (should you choose to accept them)—in fact one of several, your pick 😉 See http://windagainstcurrent.com/2012/06/08/its-awards-time-again/
Thank you Vladimir 🙂
Thanks and good blog.
thanks for dropping by 🙂
Hi, I have nominated you for the Beautiful Blogger Award :). Here is the link for the details: http://technikolordreamer.wordpress.com/2012/06/06/the-beautiful-blogger-award/
Thank you Shirsha – I’m honoured
thank you very much for liking my post….your about page is very entertaining already :)) (i still have a long way to go)
Thank you and keep at it Im still learning 🙂
Thanx for dropping by at my blog! U got a follower! 😀
Welcome – 🙂
We are very much alike! 🙂 I love meeting others who has also share the same mentality about Life; to live your passions and turn away from living by the standard set of life rules! i started doing that 13 years ago, now married, and not letting anything stopping me from traveling the world or seeking outdoor adventures! love your blog! i’m a fan!
Thank you zoetic – glad to meet an alike minded person 🙂
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading each one of your blogs, I’m looking forward to travelling the world one day and have made a list of all the places you’ve been that have caught my interest 🙂
Thank you Kazz – Ican see you have been a frequent visitor – may you have many adventures 🙂
howdy wench……i like your name……im know as skinny at home…………..thanks for the like.
Hello fellow skinny person 🙂
fatty (my wife) regularly tells me to be careful not to fall through my own a hole……and if i go on a diet id cease to exist…..im also very light skinned and am the only person i know who could skinny dip in a bottle of milk without anyone noticing….enjoy
Thanks for stopping by. Your stories are great!~chaoticwhitespace
thank you cWS
Simply beautiful! Thank you for a dose of inspiration!
Thank you Bestcmama
Thanks for stopping by each week at CTB 😀
I love the shadow pic… very cool!
Thanks CTB 🙂
🙂
you rock. keep inspiring
Many thanks Ms V
When I read this I hear myself, although my travels have not been quite as extensive as yours, the intent & feeling is the same. I love your photography, it moves my heart. You are right not to get caught in the trap of 9 to 5 and a mortgage, we regret that we are stuck in such a trap. Wishing you the best & I’ll be back to see more.
Thank you csroth The way the economy is I’m lucky not to have taken the plunge – all the best 🙂
Thanks for stopping by and the like!
my pleausre it was a good blog 🙂
Thanks for visiting and “liking” my photoblog. Yours is super! I’ll be back.
Ron
Thank you Ron 🙂
Hi! Thank you for liking my recent post. I was just reading you ‘about me’ section and can very much relate to how you were not satisfied with the ‘mortgage, office job, 2.5 children’ lifestyle. Although I also agree with you that there’s nothing wrong with that, I also can relate to your feeling of how its not for you. I feel the same way.
Have you visited India? If I can be of any help, feel free to get in touch anytime.
Thanks again, Maddie.
Thank U Maddie – India is on my bucket list – keep in touch I will defo need some tips 🙂
Great to hear 🙂 Hope to hear from you again in the near future then. In the meantime, I’m not sure which month you are planning to visit, but we usually discourage guests to visit during the monsoon period (July – September) – rains can be torrential! The most pleasant time to visit north India is between October – March.
Looking forward to reading more of your travel adventures 🙂
What a fabulous blog! I’m so happy to have found it.
Thank you Stacy I hope you enjoy it 🙂
Oh Wow! You have so many goodies here. Travel destinations and large great pictures. Thanks for checking my blogs.
You have a beautiful blog! Great stories and photography. Will definitely come back and check out all your posts. Cheers!
Thank you 🙂
Absolutely there’s a book in you! And if you ever need some guidance, I’m happy to help. I wrote and self published a book and it was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life.
Thank you Cat. I will bear this in mind when I summon up the courage to start to write one 🙂
Just found your blog. Loved the “About” page and will e back to read more. Hope your healthscare was just that. At 69 this year, I’m still finding out what I like, but running out of time. I will return to your blog. Best wishes. Martin (Canada)
Thanks Martin – I hope my pictures give u some travel ideas
thanks for visiting ….. and thanks for sharing images and thoughts ….
bw
Hi there! First of all, thanks for liking my recent, quite silly, photo blog post. :-D. And for bringing me here to your blog which looks amazing!I have met, in my own travels in India, many people like you who work for awhile and then take off for unknown places until the money runs out. And yes, the idea of teaching english as a foreign language is how many of them manage to stay traveling for years at a time! So go for it and keep enjoying! You might like to see some of my adventures…years worth, on one of my India blogs:
http://janesindiajournals.wordpress.com
with love light and JOY
Thanks Jane I will check it out 🙂
Thanks for your like. Will follow your blog, have a weak spot for nomads 🙂
Cheers! (from a nomad with 2,5 kids)
Hello and welcome fellow nomad 🙂
Hi there, thanks for stopping by my blog! I admire your vibrant photos very much…they transport me instantly, back to my own travels through SE Asia last year…sighhh
Thankyou 🙂
Thank you for dropping by my blog. It’s always a pleasure (and an inspiration) to meet a fellow wanderer!
Like wise 🙂
Thanks for liking my post on Mindful Travel. I think I would call your fotos mindful photography! they bring your attention to the subject with a creative focus that connects you to a person or place in a memorable way.
Thank you Pamela 🙂
Thank you for visiting my blog and liking my post…I am glad I discovered your site!
And I look forward to visiting yours 🙂
I’m a nomad too! haha No but really, I have the fire in my belly to travel as well and travel we have. Always wonderful to meet others with great travel stories to share. I love talking travel ;). BTW thanks for stopping by my blog, your pat on the back was appreciated.
my pleasure and i enjoyed visiting yours too 🙂
Best photo of a mermaid that I’ve seen yet
nice 🙂
Hi and thanks for dropping by my page.. i am always in gratitude meeting a fellow traveller. you have been to several continents of the world. hope i can conquer some in time =) happy travelling!!!
You too!
You have got a very very beautiful blog!
Glad to have come across it!
Keep blogging!
Thank you Diana 🙂
Brilliant photo!!! Enjoying your blog, thanks for visiting mine!
Likewise 🙂
Thank you for visiting my site and liking my shot.
My pleasure John it was a good photo
Hello and thanks for stopping by my blog and your encouraging likes.
Am glad to be visiting your blog too 😀
Hi there,
Thanks for stopping by my blog. It is great to read about like minded people. What a story you have to tell! I couldn’t imagine life without a few bits of travel here and there. I am only just starting out and lots more to see and do. Thanks again!
Happy travelling I look forward to ready more on your blog 🙂
It sounds like you’re havin’ fun. Keep on truckin’ ‘n’ trekkin’. ciao
Thanks Cecil 🙂
I loved reading your blog. Wish I had started travelling 40 years ago. I’ve left it a bit late, but not too late.
It’s never too late 🙂 Go for it 🙂
awe-inspiring!
thanks for the like
Love your blog…thanks for visiting my blog and ‘liking’ my photograph!
More to life than Wii? Are you crazy?
Love the photograph. It’s amazing. I love this posting and I can’t wait to read more of your blog posts. I am currently a stay-at-home mom with 4 kids. I’m not at liberty to say which one we cut in half. It’s great to read the adventures and travels of others. A bit of vicarious living for me.
Thank you Lorre – Fortunately I don’t have a Wii so I don’t know what I’m missing 🙂
Basically…not much. Fun game night with kids, but getting out and living life is so much better.
Thanks for stopping by my blog and liking my posts. Your photos are awesome 🙂
Thank you Nadia
People like you are inspiration to amateurs like me to constantly improve work..! 🙂
Thank you for the compliment Kaval however I am an amateur too – There is a lot to be said for photoshop 🙂
haha your originals are so better that you don’t require any photo editing 😛
Hi, thank you for dropping by my blog. You have some amazing pictures here. 🙂
Thanks for checking out my blog and liking my post on Floro. You have an amazing blog here and i’ll be your 800 follower.
Thank you for your comments and congrats on being my 800 follower – amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!
Would you do me the honour of accepting the Kreativ Blogger Award please? The details are in my post http://restlessjo.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/kreativly-tagged/
Thank you Jo – I’ve only just started to read my comments – apologies for the delay – I’m honoured 🙂
Thanks for stopping by and liking my Carton King Park blog! You are simply amazing. Not many people can do what you have done. Looking forward to your book. It should feature your photos from your travels. Those photos are great!
Thanks for stopping in and the like! I look forward to reading about your adventures.
Thank you and thanks for the visit 🙂
Thanks again for visiting and liking my blog. Your blog is a great read, well done!
Thank you Paul – I like yours as well 🙂
Love your lifestyle! It’s great to read about the experiences of people like you who live what they love. Looking forward to reading more.
Thank you for your kind comments Kathrine
Thanks so much for liking my recent post about cool shoes in Bangkok! I really liked checking out your blog. Looking forward to more of your photos.
There’s a lot of cool stuff in Bangkok – I like the handbags 🙂
Thanks for stopping by my blog and blessing me with a “like” on my last post “A Prairie Thing.”
I can relate totally to the life that you have created for yourself. It took me 50 years to finally settle down from being a gyspy and buy my first home. But homesteading lasted only 10 years, as the yearning to live a roaming lifestyle appreciating everything I see and all whom I meet got the better of me once again. The decision last summer to quit my job, sell my home and everything I owned and worked for, buy an RV and become a warm and dry climate follower has been so far the best decision of my life.
So I honor you for following your heart and living a passionate life. You go girl, as I’m sure you will. We both will.
Appreciating our connection
Shanomi
Dear Shanomi, Thank you for your comments. It is a brave person who sells up everything and heads off into the blue yonder. Good luck with your travels. Sue
Thank you for visiting my blog.
Thanks for visiting my blog and liking my post. But a bigger thanks for helping me find your blog! Fascinating reading…. I am going to enjoy your photos and stories very much
Thank you Madoqua 🙂
hello there. you sound like a kindred spirit. I have the same lust for life and travel. would love to keep in touch! 🙂
Hi – thanks for the visit I will keep touching base with your site 🙂
awesome, samesies 🙂
Thank you so much! I took a break for a bit but will be blogging a lot more now so please check back!
Hei, I see you dropped by my blog. Thanks. Impressed by your photos. Keep up the good work.
You have wonderful photos! Thanks for sharing, and for visiting my blog.
Keep blogging and exploring…I love your blog. Thanks for visiting my blog and ‘liking’ my photo;)
From one nomad to another, how wonderful to discover your blog! Like you, I tend to reinvent myself every 3 years or so, and have done quite a bit of traveling (lots more ahead I hope). Thanks for stopping by my blog and I’ll be back to explore more of yours!
Thank you and good luck with the travelling 🙂
Thank you Julie – happy travelling 🙂
Hi, thanks for liking the post on http://www.MartyRobinsonSpanish.wordpress.com about the colorful buildings in Granada. I read your About and I totally agree with your thoughts. Keep exploring, it is so worth it. Look forward to reading more.
Thanks Marty 🙂
Thank you for stopping by my blog…I think you have a most interesting one…love the fact that you change directions so seemingly effortlessly…all the very best in that always!
The photography is lovely…look forward to more…
God bless…
Hi there! Thank you for liking a post at one of my blogs (http://threedailydelights.wordpress.com/) – I appreciate it!
Thanks for stopping by my little Blog, its greatly appreciated. I hope you enjoyed what I had to say. See you soon.
Scott
Thanks for reading this newbies post. Please take care of yourself and get that book going, I’m sure you have it all in your head and heart.
Hello skinnywench!
You have a pretty amazing blog! Really love your pictures!
By the way, thanks for visiting our blog! 😀
Keep up the great work!
Good day God bless.
Thanks sooo much for visiting my blog http://onethousandlayers.wordpress.com and liking my post “A Gorgeous Day for Shooting”. Your blog is fantastic, and I especially love your posts about Australia …they certainly generated a few giggles from me. Beautiful work!
Thank you for your kind comments 🙂 🙂
Thanks for dropping by. All the best to you. keep writing!
Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog. 🙂
Nice photos in your blog!!!!! Keep posting.
Thanks for stopping by Wandrin’ Round and liking my post on Key West. I love your About photo! I’ll be back to take a closer look around.
Really beautiful pictures, offer a lot to the more sedate?contented. Continue with your glorious life, but I am feeling it is your attitude not the job/lack of standard job, which makes it. You can see that in job-for-life people too. Stay live
Hi there! Thank you very much for visiting my blog and the like! I’m glad I found your blog that way. You’ve visited many beautiful places and what amazing photography! Looking foward to seeing more! Cheers!
Hi! I nominated you for the ABC (Awesome Blog Content) Award. I was moved to do so because I am delighted whenever I see an email from you in my in-box. You can read about the award at http://elladeewords.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/a-community-garden-and-abc-awards/ .
Accepting awards to enable you to nominate other worthy recipients isn’t for the faint hearted or time poor, so please accept if you choose and there’s no timeframe on responding, or obligation to do so if it’s not right for you.
Best wishes,
EllaDee
Thank you EllaDee I am honoured and will check out the link 🙂
Thanks so much for stopping by my blog and for the likes! Your blog is amazing and your photographs, inspiring. Thanks for sharing them!
Heart-judderingly stunning photos, perfection writ large 🙂
Toni
What an enviable life. Go for the TESOL course. In 2006 my (then) 64 year old friend did and she has been to China twice since then. She said amazingly they respect older people
Thanks for stopping by my blog! I just took a look at yours and it looks like we share a lot – an adventurous take on life, a love of travel, and I also work like you did organizing conferences! I do hope you write a book, full of beautiful colorful photographs 🙂
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nice!
Oh, skinny wench. Thank you so much for liking my post. I am looking forward to delving into your blog and photos further. Inspiring in terms of so many places to go and people to see. Makes me feel guilty that I just bought some jewelry (feeling a little extra deserving today, albeit early, for Mother’s Day). Should be saving for that next trip…
Cheers,
Tuesday
Delightful intro, dear Wench, and I look forward to reading and seeing much more of your adventures over time.
Cheers!
Kathryn
I am writing a blog post on 7 most ridiculously simple ways to save money on travel. Would you like to give your input for my post. 1 or 2 best tips will suffice but as long as they are ridiculously simple!
Hi there – sorri its taken a while to get back to you – im in tavelling mode and the wifi connections out here are not the best. Hmmm simple tips 1) In Asia buy all you need in terms of clothes abroad and save on luggage allowance – you will chuck them anyway at the end of the trip. Thanks for asking
thanks.
love the image….it says a lot about the eye of the observer… a travelers life can be quite…….emotional
Thanks for stopping by and liking my photo-essay on San Miguel de Allende! You’ve got some great travel photographs on your blog!
Nice blog!! Great photos and wonderful writing. I hope you continue to have fun adventures and great time.
Thanks for stopping by my site. Your photos are absolutely stunning! Looking at such beauty is getting me more excited about my trip. Thank you.
Jennifer
Thank you for your kind comments Jennifer – may you travel long and have many amazing adventures 🙂
Great photos here.
I’m happy to have visited your site.
Thanks for liking my post, “Leafy and Leafless”.
Hi,
I love your blog – and your philosophy on life!
Thanks for calling in at my blog and liking my post about the Gandhi Memorial lMuseum. You would love it here as the area around Lakeside is full of inspiration for the photographer, artist or writer. We can even accommodate people for an extended stay to work on their artistic projects.
Maybe you can visit this area when next in southern India? It woul dbe great to meet you.
By the way, Sigiriya is one of my favourite places in Sri Lanka!
Dorinda (lakesideindia)
Hi Dorinda – India is on my list – when I get there I would love to visit 🙂
Nice photographs. Thank you for dropping by at my simple blog. I will be back to read about your travels.
Hi! You have beautiful pictures and a lovely blog.
Thanks for dropping by my blog and liking a post 🙂
Cheers x
Thanks for liking my post. Enjoy your jorneying.
Wow, I just had a look at your blog after you liked my post about the Tentsile camping solution and I must say; your blog is full of inspiration.. I love traveling too. Maybe not as much as you do but don’t mind if I follow you around for a while to get some inspiration for my future trips. Keep trucking, you share gems 🙂
A wonderful blog here – and I love your shadow picture. Thanks for visiting mine and giving me a ‘Like’!
Thank you for stopping and liking Ghummakkad….appreciate it!
Lovely pictures on your blog, esp the one in About Me!
thanks for popping in on us over at starfishandsnowflake.wordpress.com -it lead us to your blog and your amazing adventures! i love the premise for your blog, such a good idea.
Good to meet you! Thanks for visiting my blog. Look forward to more of yours!
Hi! Thank you for checking our my blog 🙂 I admire your breadth of traveling! I have similar views on life and have moved and traveled a lot. Looking forward to reading about your travels 🙂
Thanks for liking my post about my trip to Valparaiso, Chile! Have you visited yet?! It seems like you’ve been to many places as well! Love the pictures too! Cheers to more travels and adventures!
Thanks so much for the visit to Play a Good Knife and Fork and “like” on my Ireland post! I appreciate it. I, too, love to travel, although that piece of my writing is only highlighted on my blog inasmuch as it relates to food ;). Some great stuff here! Cheers, PK (@pknewby)
Anything about food is always a winner for me!
Hey! Thanks for checking out my cow post yesterday! 🙂 I am now living vicariously through your wonderful site. Awesome pictures; I feel like I am right there with you. Keep up the great work!
Lisa
Thanks Lisa 🙂
So glad and grateful that you stumbled across my blog – to enable me to discover yours! WOW – we definately share the same passion for travel and exploring.
I can’t wait to read your blog I am excited already by the quick scan that I just did and loving the photos too.
Its a rainy day here in Brisbane and I have a day off work – so I plan to explore your blog and that makes me happy.
THanks again!
No thank yoy Lou for your kind comments 🙂
Hi – thanks for liking my most recent post.
I just had a quick look through your home page and your photos are amazing and your stories sound equally as exciting!
Thank you Ann 🙂
Thank you for visiting my blog “arnnarn.com” and liking the post “Abducted by sea turtles…”. I hope you come back again.The book is due out early this fall.
In one of the comments on your blog, which is beautifully written and entertaining, one suggests you do a book. I agree. I look forward to more of your writing.
Bruce
Thank you Bruce 🙂
Life is something to be. . .
Nah, too trite.
Life is a movie.
Sometimes, we need a comedy, sometimes a drama, sometimes Marilynn Monroe and sometimes we need to join Bob Hope on the Road to. . .sounds like you.
now where is that Richard Bach book when I need it?
Nice thoughts
I love your blog and thanks for visiting mine! And I can relate, the longest I’ve lived in one place is 4 years, and that’s only because I was in college. I’ve been in my current “home” for 2 years, and I’m starting to get the itch to move again! 🙂
Thanks for stopping by. Great stories and pictures. Sounds like we have a lot in common. Including similar adventures. I was afraid to leave the States b/c I don’t have a birth certificate and so have only just started traveling. I was able to get a passport recently. I look forward to reading more about your adventures.
Thanks for dropping in and your kind comments 🙂
i am going to enjoy following you:) thanks for stopping by!
Thanks for visiting eighty wickets, skinny wench! I’m glad you like it. I am impressed by your photos and in-depth commentary. A stellar blog – keep it up!
Thank you Merryn 🙂
Thank you for liking my post. Blessings.
Thanks a lot for stopping by my blog and liking it! 🙂
I really like your blog… Keep writing and keep visiting!
Anshul
Thanks Anshul – I certainly will
Hi there, thanks for stopping by to check out my blog. I like what I read on yours so I will back soon for more.
Thank you for your kind comments 🙂
Thanks for liking my blog. You have a really interesting blog!!
WOW…what a blog, I can only hope to do a fraction of the travelling you have done…in the mean time, I will keep reading about it on your beautiful blog!
Thanks Mamacino
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Thanks for stopping by my blog. Very impressed with what you’ve written here, as to what you are all “About” as well as the ongoing adventure that you have made into your life. Inspiring…
Thank you Chris 🙂
Thank you for liking my blog. I love your sense of adventure and learning.
Hi,
Recently http://elladeewords.wordpress.com was nominated for the Versatile Blogger Award by Pete Denton – Writer http://petedenton.wordpress.com.
I have posted the award details at http://elladeewords.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/the-versatile-blogger-award-7-things-about-elladee/.
The rules for accepting this award are as follows:
1. Thank the award-givers and link back to them in your post.
2. Share 7 things about yourself.
3. Pass this award along 15 or 20 bloggers you read & admire.
4. Contact your chosen bloggers to let them know about the award.
Your blog is amongst the 20 that amuse & inspire me I nominated as my part in fulfilling rule 3. If you feel so inclined, please accept from me the Versatile Blogger Award, and my congratulations for great blogging, and pass it on to others also deserving.
Best regards,
EllaDee
Thank you EllaDee I am honoured 🙂
you’re my hero. As Thoreau said, “Live the life you imagined.” And you’re doing just that.
I’m embarking late on my journey, having been saddled with the mortgage, et. al. But I’ve kept the dream alive. Thanks for the inspiration.
Karen
Thank you for your kind comments Karen 🙂
I love how you write and I love what you write about. There is an essence of wisdom and nostalgia without leaving the current moment you are in. It’s simply beautiful, and I am happy to have made this connection.
Thank you Turid 🙂
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Thank you for the nomination 🙂
Thank you for the nomination 🙂
Thank you for visiting my blog & “liking” my blog post about Aruba. Your blog looks beautiful & your pictures are just gorgeous! I am a traveler at heart & look forward to reading through your stories.
Thank you for your comments 🙂
Thank you for visiting my blog.
Your blog is fantastic!
Thank you FLG
Your article,The Salar de Uyuni and the Cordillera De Chichas – South West Bolivia, is now featured on Bucket List Publications under the Destination section. You can check it out at http://www.bucketlistpublications.com/.
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We look forward to reading more of your articles in the future.
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I feel inspired reading your bio – both to continue to travel, and to write about it. Thank you for sharing your photos and writings! And, thank you for reading my blog too 🙂
Thank you Abena
There is definitely a book in you, and an inspiring one, too! Thanks for visiting. It’s nice to meet kindred spirits.
Dito – and thnks for your comments 🙂
Thank you for visiting my blog and liking my most recent post! Wonderful writing and photography–keep it up. It’s making me think I need to get to Greece (and so many other places) before too much more of my life goes by….
Thank you Tom for your comments – I hope that you get to live the dream soem day
What a fabulous picture:)
Thanks Tristen
i LOVE your blog. And your photographs are just stunning – what camera do you use? Brought back so many happy memories from my own travels.
Thank you – I’ve been working my way up from a digital to and SLR Cannon 500d – but photoshop is a godsend!!!! 🙂
I would read that book! Such a fascinating site. I look forward to reading through it more and hearing about your adventures in the future.
Dear SW,
I spend so much time writing that I fail to leave time to look about the blogospere and see what’s going on. Like other commenters above, I think your blog is wonderfully rich, both visually and literarily. You are living a life that so many think they will get around to some day but never do. Despite my cynical view of much of the world, I find your thoughts and images refreshing and reassuring. I know that I shall be crushed if I find out you’re an 21 year old college drop out, living in his parent’s basement in Toledo, Ohio, and having everyone on as the SkinnyWench. Best of luck on your adventure!
Dear CD – I am undone. You have seen beneath the persona – I am in fact a 90 year old living out my fantasies of travel from a retirement village in the middle of nowhere. Luckily they are letting me out for a holiday soon to the Phillipines unescorted! many thanks for your comments
love the self portrait (shadow) – great photos!
great blog, fantastic photos. Thanks
Thank you for stopping by 🙂
What a beautiful site you have created here. Thanks so much for stopping by and liking my site, I only hope I can create something as wonderul as this.
Thank you 🙂
Thanks for stopping by and liking my entry! Your blog is absolutely amazing! Looks like you’ve been practically everywhere!:)
Thanks for visiting my blog. You lead a charmed life! After doing a lot of traveling in my youth, I settled down, relatively speaking, but moved from career to career. It’s only been since last year that I have rediscovered (budget permitting) the joys of travel.
Thanks for visiting my blog and liking my post “The Magic of Millie.” Writing as one who is experiencing her own health crisis at the moment and surely understand the desire to share and get on with life. Thanks for inspiring. Be well …
Wonderful blog! Thanks for stopping by mine. I love reading about travels!:)
I’ve enjoyed reading your blog. I’m nominating you for the Versatile Blogger Award.
I’m honoured – thank you
Hi, thanks for liking my Gambia birds blog post, annd all my best wishes for your blog!
Thanks for visiting my site! I look forward to exploring yours.
I nominated you for the Versatile Blog Award. Not sure if you’ve been nominated before or have time for it…but wanted you to know I enjoy your blog!
Wow thank you – what an honour – I’ve not been nominated before – what happens next?
Look at my post titled “Versatile Blogger Award” and the directions are there.
Your blog photography is absolutely breathtaking!
Thank you Maria
I absolutely love your photographs. I look forward to seeing more.
Thank you so much – I wil do my best
I love it! I love the idea of traveling for forever! Thanks for creating the blog to share your experiences. I also love that you mentioned Double Rainbow (that’s my Chinese name Shuang Hong 双虹).
Thank you Shuang Hong – what a beautiful name you have
Thanks for checking out my blog! I appreciate it. Yours is fantastic!
thank you
Wow, what a pleasure to explore your blog! Thanks for visiting mine! Will certainly be back for many look-sees!
Thank you Amy
Appreciate the like on my sunset photo. Best to you.
Thanks for taking a few minutes to look at my blog, which I am still getting the hang of, but you have mastered it, con-grats great work.
Thank you -it took a while to figure out though – good luck with yours
Keep them coming!
Wow! So you’ve pretty much lived your life the way I’d like to/am trying to. Fabulous. I’m also thinking of going back to do my Masters now at 30. Anyway, I’ll be following your blog and benefiting from your experiences.
Thank you Shiv – good luck with your plans
Thanks for stopping by my blog and liking my post ‘ O’ Hare or O’ Harrow’. So glad this gave me chance to stop by yours. Absolutely love that picture you have on this page! Looking forward to reading some of your posts:)
Thank you for your kind words 🙂
I so agree with you. I have no kids but life is definitely more than a job, a car and a mortgage. I’m figuring out how to continue traveling especially since it seems to be conflict with the notion of a permanent job. Let me know if you got that figured out. 😉
I’m really lucky in that my job is in demand in Australia – no one wants to be a social worker so there is plenty of temping/long term contracts around. But I’d like to travel on a more permanent basis so I’m looking into retraining as a teacher and teaching English abroad – hope you figure out a way to do it too 🙂
wow wow wow! *unhesitatingly hits follow*
Thank you Grace
Thanks for stopping by my blog.
Absolutely loved your blog! Beautiful photography!!!
Thank you divk 🙂
Howdy –
Thanks for stopping by my blog today. I’m glad you did, as it looks like I’m going to enjoy yours…..
Howdy, thank you cowboy
Thanks for stopping by tnv! Looks like you’ve had quite the adventures- best of luck in wherever (or whatever) in your next one!
Thanks for dropping by my blog! Of course I had to head over and cyberstalk yours. The photos of your travels are amazing! Thanks for sharing, and keep writing! 🙂
Thank you Lori
Sounds like you are leading a magnificent life! I hope there IS a book in there!
Thank you for your confidence in me – a book is planned – but I need feedback about my stories and if they are good enough – so keep reading and let me know what you like 0r don’t like!
Thanks for stopping by my blog http://www.urbancurator.wordpress.com! Wow, you travel so much, I really admire that! I share your view on the “job for life”. I am currently trying to figure out a way to do what I love! If you have any tips, please let me know!
I’ll be back to read about your adventures!
Glad you like it – just go for it – I tend to work for a year or two, save like mad then head off for a year. Economic climate now makes it a little more difficult but I’m working on getting out of here for longer periods by taking a teaching english course. Maybe I can travel for a long time then – I have a friend who has been #travelling for 11 years!!!!
love this blog. keep writing…
Thanks Clare – glad you are enjoying it
Hi – loved your blog and have tried to find a way to contact you for advice. Failed so I’m using this. I’m visiting Melbourne for a week in December with my partner. Planning to go to Phillip Island, Sovereign Hill, St Kilda and a vineyard (don’t know which yet). Any suggestions for other ‘must do’ visits? The choice so far should give you an idea of our interests. BTW – interested to see you were in conference management. I’ve been in that business for nearly 40 years now. 🙂
A week to pack so much into – Phillip island is great but Wilson’s Prom (nature reserve) is much better. The dandenongs are good for a day out – lots of forrest, birds and walking. If you stay around the city Brunswick, the harbour area, sydney road, fitzroy, carlton (italian food) are nice places to stroll around (all accessible by tram). Williamstown is great (ferry from st kilda i think) nice beach and area. In town there are museums, art centres, parks, – check out ‘whats on in Melbourne’ internet magazine to see if there are any festivals on at that time. Enjoy 🙂
Skinny Wench – Pls. download Paris Adieu before midnight tonight, Fri. Nov. 30 at http://amzn.to/MLX194. Think you will love this story of Ava coming of age in Paris. Your blog is GORGEOUS.
Will do
I am loving all the bloggers I am reading about–today is my 2 month Blogger anniversary. My one regret is that my real life is in such a state of chaos at the moment I have little time for reading others posts- some days I have no time for writing which has become a passion for me. Yours is especially fascinating for me as I have always wanted to visit places like Australia. I will make every effort to follow yours,
Cyn
Thank you Cyn, keep going – it is hard to fit in sometimes but worth it – my writing teacher said that even 1/2 an hourt a day just putting down thgouths and not editing is good practise
Thanks for liking my blog. Your blog is brilliant. I look forward to reading more of it.
Thank you Sandy