Nancy Corley and Barry Schneider started the blog, www.adventurephiles.com, in 2011 during a 10-week discovery of southeast Asia – the extraordinary people and places of Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia and Thailand.
We then sold our home and nearly all our belongings to free ourselves for more travel, first visiting New Zealand for six months, Australia for a year, then back to New Zealand for another six months, with a side trip to the Philippines.
And our life has been like that ever since. We consider ourselves nomads with no fixed home and a restless attitude. We visit countries for at least a month…and often longer. Taking the time to travel in this way, we find we can get an intimate feel for the landscape, the people, and the culture.
Our memories of these times are boundless. For example:
Breaking into a spontaneous dance with the women selling produce at the open air market of Lusaka
Sledding on our butts down a pristine slope on the Antarctic mainland
Tearfully hugging our lettuce lady at the market in Zagreb as we said goodbye
Conferring with Omori tribal elders in their small Ethiopian village
Trekking the dazzling mountain trails of Albania, Peru, Chile, Djibouti, and so many others
Celebrating Ganesha in India, Buddha in Nepal, Allah in Tunisia, and Christmas with some French in a Vietnam farmhouse
Singing aloud in Tallinn’s city square with thousands of Estonians as they celebrated their independence
Crossing the Russian steppes on the Trans-Siberian train, sipping vodka and visiting Ekaterinburg and Irkutsk
Waking to the sound of a sick yak in the neighboring yurt in Mongolia, and trying to stoke the meager fire against the cold
Camping for four months across the 7 countries of southern Africa, often to the music of lions in heat
Our passion to explore has led us to all seven continents and over 120 countries. And we continue to seek out more of what this world has to show. This blog is a record of those trips, not a diary or comprehensive guide, but our takeaways from our visits and some of our adventures.
The Covid pandemic slowed us down for a couple of years, giving us the chance to spend a great deal more time in Portugal than we expected. But we’re moving and shaking again.
For now, this newsletter presents only the most recent journeys. You can subscribe for free below.
To explore further, just head to our original Adventurephiles Travel Blog to learn about all the places we’ve been, starting with the drop-down menus under Itineraries & Pictures.
And we hope to see you on our next adventures!