The Life Less Traveled

“You’re traveling alone?” the old woman in Hanoi, Vietnam asked Allie Almario, one eyebrow raised in concern. She was carefully making incense sticks by hand, one at a time.
“Yes, I am.” Allie replied, a little startled by the question.
“Hmmmm, most unusual,” she murmured.
Perhaps. Often as a single Filipino-American woman trotting around the [...]

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Interested in a cool and creative job? Amanda C. Peterson is a professional namer for Landor, a branding consultancy, coming up with monikers for snack food flavors, technology spin-offs and everything in between. After years of working in advertising planning and copywriting, she made the leap to worrying about Latin root words and trademark attorneys. [...]

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In 2006 James and Sarah Welle sold all of their possessions and left their comfortable jobs at Microsoft to bicycle around the world. During their year-long adventure, the pair encountered interesting people, delicious food, new found athletic prowess and the realization of how close at hand freedom and the choice to shake up your daily [...]

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