Change Your Life Through Travel

Change Your Life Through Travel
Inspiring Tales and Tips for Richer, Fuller, More Adventurous Living
By: Jillian Robinson

Jillian has created a book that delights the reader with her experiences around the globe and at the same time touches them with insights and tips for creating changes in their own lives. I was touched by her second chapter entitled Take More Risks. I especially liked this statement.

Risk suggests possible loss or danger. And fear of loss often preoccupies our lives. What if we embraced loss instead? What if we regarded every possible loss as an opportunity to create something new? Doors close, windows open.”

After reading Changing Your Life Through Travel I believe Jillian will touch her readers with her insightful thoughts and tips chapter by chapter. Jillian’s chapters include; Slow Down and Live in the Moment, Feel Sexy, Step into Your Courage and many others. In each chapter she weaves her experiences along with those of others to create a chapter of travel experiences that inspire and touch the reader. She then concludes each chapter with three tips to help the reader create adventures in their own lives. Absolutely worth a read!

 

The Natural Beauty of the Big Island

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A Hawaiian mural I discovered at a Big Island Resort shopping area.

 

Islands Magazine

I LOVE this magazine! Whenever I need an exotic tropical boost I pick up this magazine and feel that I’m transported to a tropical paradise. I particularly LOVE the Special Issue: HOW TO RUN AWAY TO PARADISE. This issue has an article called The 20 Best Islands To Live On. This article rates a variety of islands around the globe for most livable; included in this article are a sample of home prices, weather, island life, hospitals and tropical retreats on each island to visit and explore. I especially liked the fact that they researched island accomodations so you can get a flavor of each particular island before you take the leap to move and buy. Very Cool article!

 

The Beauty of Dominica Under The Sea

Today on YouTube I came across a nice slideshow with music of the Caribbean island of Dominica. This is an underwater slideshow of a great dive. Enjoy!

 

Fabulous Pohnpei in Micronesia

A number of years ago I had a chance to visit the island of Pohnpei. I had a fabulous time and I would return in a heartbeat. The hotel my friends and I stayed at was gorgeous, natural and allowed us to experience the island in a lovely way.Today as I was desiring a tropical fix I searched Pohnpei on google and found a nice site for information on the island AND a site for our beautiful hotel. Enjoy!
www.TheVillageHotel.com

This is the site for island information with a gorgeous gallery of pictures.
http://www.visit-fsm.org/pohnpei/sights.html

 

The Island of Pohnpei

Click here to view a youtube video of hiking on the island of Pohnpei.

Today I have been in need of a break from my regular life….I have been missing travel and adventure. What a surprise, anyone who is in the midst of selling their house and dealing with everything required to do when selling and moving can probably relate to the feeling of desiring an amazing escape. A reminder of a Micronesia with this cool Pohnepei video certainly gave me a visual reminder of paradise.

Enjoy Pohnpei

 

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World an Entrepreneur’s Odyssey to Educate the World’s Children

“Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
an Entrepreneur’s Odyssey to Educate the World’s Children.”

IT IS STUNNING…EVERYONE SHOULD BE READING THIS BOOK. It is touching, inspiring and a real heads up as to what one person can create with enough passion, determination and belief. John Wood’s charity, Room To Read is creating schools, libraries, computer centers and scholarships for girls education in poverty stricken areas of the world.

I bought the book last night and I can’t put it down. I read until midnight and then started again at breakfast this morning. I’ve now read 200 pages and can barely contain my excitement at what he and his charity organization are doing to improve the lives of children all over the world who are living in poverty. These children previously had no suitable books available and little opportunity for an education. I made a donation today and I challenge my friends and the readers of my blog to do the same. Check out his website which is listed in my blog roll to the right under charity and education.

 

A Very Cool Book

I just learned of this book and this man’s incredibly passion for educating the children of the world. I can’t wait to read the book and learn more about how this man’s passion and dream changed his life and the lives of others in Nepal and with time others around the world.

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World; An Entrepreneuer’s Odyssey to Educate the World’s Children By John Wood

 

Live What You Love

Living my own overseas adventure in Berlin, Germany.

Live What You Love
notes from an unusual life
By Bob and Melinda Blanchard

This book is incredibly inspiring for those who are trying to create their own dreams. This is their second book. Their first, “A Trip to the Beach” detailed their journey of moving to the caribbean island of Anguilla and their adventure of opening a restaurant on the island. Both books are honest, humerous, inviting and inspiring for those who dream of creating their own way to move away from the ordinary, to a dream of having a life that is fulfilling and satisfying.

This is a quote from “Live What You Love”

Drawing from experience, we’ve identified four checkpoints in life that help us connect our dreams with reality. We affectionately call these checkpoints the Big 4: PASSION, PEOPLE, ENVIRONMENT, AND MONEY, and like the pistons in your car engine, they should all be in proper working order and running smoothly. We’ve always tried to live our life guided by our passions, surrounded by people we love and living in places we enjoy. We try not to put more emphasis on any one of the Big 4 -they are all important – although we feel strongly that money should always come last. Money’s primary function is to make the other three possible.

 

Island Wise

Plumeria flowers on the Big Island of Hawaii

There is a book I love, that I keep on my dresser. When I want an uplifting quick read about the islands of the world I open this book to a random page and for a moment I am transported back to the islands I’ve lived on and loved in my life.

Today my random page in “Island Wise”
“lessons in living from the islands of the world” is from the island of Jamaica.

“The first thing I do when I come to Jamaica is to bury my watch in the suitcase and set my inner clock to the islands pure tropical tranquility-that slow cooking joy that the islanders create just by viewing time in their own unique way.”

“Dr. Breeze is their name for the trade winds that blow in over the Caribbean Sea to cool an island day. The doctor just makes everything feel “irie” they say, i.e., simply wonderful. And if the bus, your dinner, or your guide is late, someone calmly says, “Soon come.” Translation: It’ll happen sooner or later, just relax.”

“It doesn’t take long to begin to appreciate this “soon come” take on life. It’s the essence of island time.”