Happy Jestetter day! Say hello to Val of This Way to Paradise. It’s actually physically impossible to look at her site and not wish you were on a beach. We’re serious. Take a moment, click above, and try. Are you back? Did you succeed? Didn’t think so. Favorite Place: Gili Air off of the coast of Lombok!  It’s the perfect island.  Not too many tourists, but just enough to keep it interesting. Beautiful crystal clear waters, deserted beaches, chill out bar.  A true Paradise. More importantly, favorite meal: At a street food cart in Thailand.  This guys made noodles with pork and…

Hello friends and fellow travel lovers! It’s our favorite day of the week (next to Wine Wednesday and Friday and Saturday and Sunday, of course). It’s JETSETTER day! Meet Nadine of Tales From Saigon. She grew up in the West Indies, first traveled solo at 17, and has ridden on the back of a motorcycle taxi. This makes her infinitely cooler than us. She quit her job and moved to Vietnam for sixteen months, where she fell in love with Pho. We’ll let her tell you the rest. Favorite Place: Wow, this is a really hard question considering how many amazing…

Another week, another induction to the Lazy Travelers’ Jetsetters Club! Ready to meet Bethaney of Flashpacker Family fame? She’s a semi-nomadic Kiwi and 1/3 of the aforementioned flashpacking family. The other 2/3 are made up by husband Leo and son Reuben. Are you so impressed by our fraction abilities? ANYWAY. When she’s not chasing around her toddler, she’s busy trying to visit one new country every year. And she’s doing a pretty bang up job at it, we must say. Read on, travel lovers. You’re gonna like this one. Favorite Place: This one’s a toss up between Italy and Bangkok,…

Guys. Big news. We’ve found the Australian version of the romantic & hubs. Check it: Nicole & Michael of  Suitcase Stories are a couple who decided to leave behind the doldrums of the normal nine to five in favor of traveling the world! They’ve been on the road for almost a year, so we’re thinking the romantic & the hubs may be able to learn a trick or two about round the world travel, couple style. Read on to find out more about their experience leaving the real world behind, and for more travel tales, visit their site, Suitcase Stories.…

We’re not quite sure how to compose this next introduction, so we’ll put the fancy prose aside and just say this: if you’re looking for a New York-based attorney who also happens to excel at singing karaoke around the globe, Harvey from H-Bomb Worldwide Karaoke is your guy. He’s crooned along in karaoke bars across 27 different countries (that’s a FACT), with more travel plans in the works. Read on to hear more about his song-filled adventures and how he lost a Chilean girl’s hand in marriage thanks to a lousy chess game. Favorite Place: A tie between Greece and Italy.…