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Video: Be a World Traveler for $30 Per Day
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At the tender age of 44 years old, Barbara Singer decided to reinvent her life. In one tense and anxiety filled year, her only child went off to school, she got divorced, and then fell in love with a new man, but then he suddenly died. She found herself looking down the barrel of twenty years in a corporate sweathouse until retirement, chasing money and running on the 7 AM to 10 PM treadmill of the American Dream. She knew she could not keep up this crazy pace and remain sane and successful. She was no longer interested in building wealth. She wanted freedom, adventure, travel and romance. So she jumped off the track. She gave up her career and travelled across country in an RV from Pennsylvania to Alaska and back. She lived on a sailboat in the Caribbean. "$1000 a month doesn't mean slumming it!! I was paid crew to live on this sailboat for three months island hopping in the Caribbean." Then she went to Italy and spent four months living in Tuscany. “I lived in the heart of Florence, Italy. Many people are happy to have company and open their homes, especially to foreigners. I stayed with a celebrity who appeared to have it all and really just wanted someone to hang out with.” In her new book Living Without Reservations she shares how she did it and offers an arsenal of ideas about how anyone can have an Eat, Pray, Love experience themselves and reinvent and re-engineer their own lives to truly build the life they dream about. Barbara says that you don’t need to earn a lot of money. Without the trappings of the American lifestyle, it actually takes very little money to live. The real goal in life is to collect experiences and enjoy people, not just to go shopping and buy and collect stuff. You can live and travel when and where you choose without incurring great expense. www.BarbaraElaineSinger.com |
