CULTURE, EVENTS & EXPERIENCES How to Keep the Romance Alive While Traveling as a Couple Posted on March 5, 2017July 24, 2026 It’s important that you both feel you have a part in the success of the trip, it’s even more important to work within each other’s strengths and comfort levels. I usually ask for input on where to go and take it from there, but your partner may enjoy wading through pages and pages of information, virtual tours or guest reviews. Read more
WELLNESS ON THE ROAD Hiring Military Spouses: Military Spouses Bring Unique Skills Employers Need Posted on March 3, 2017November 15, 2025 It wasn’t long ago that many companies didn’t offer employment opportunities that were substantive to military spouse due to our transient nature. Fortunately, the tide is turning and companies are recognizing that military spouses offer a diversity, born out of that transience, that far exceeds the gaps in employment and multiple fields and skill sets they employ. Read more
CULTURE, EVENTS & EXPERIENCES Jinhae Cherry Blossom Festival: How to See Korea’s Most Beautiful Spring Blooms Posted on March 1, 2017August 5, 2026 Hundreds of trees offer shade from the afternoon sun, forming a canopy overhead. Unfortunately, the flowers hadn’t matured and there were just as many– if not more– buds on the perennial trees when we visited. When the flower petals fall and dance along the gentle spring breeze, the atmosphere gets magical to stroll under the full-bloom trees and the whole place takes on a fairy tale like atmosphere. Read more
WELLNESS ON THE ROAD How to Re-Enter the Job Market After Years Away Posted on February 24, 2017November 15, 2025 I haven’t worked full-time outside the home in a few years. But I want a job. I have things I’d like to do that require funds and the whole “dependent” blanket I’ve been wearing up to my eyeballs is wearing a little thin these days. I want—scratch that, I need a job. But it’s not for lack of trying that I don’t have one. I have applied to quite a few of them until recently. I have been a victim—a victim of my own short-sidedness. Read more
CULTURE, EVENTS & EXPERIENCES 8 Intentional Travel Resolutions and How to Keep Them Posted on February 20, 2017November 16, 2025 How to make intentional travel resolutions that the travel addict in you will want to keep traveling all year long. Read more
WELLNESS ON THE ROAD Your Ultimate Guide to Recycling in South Korea Posted on February 20, 2017November 23, 2025 South Korea has taken bold steps to reduce the country’s carbon footprint. Unlike America where all the recycled goods are heaped into one bin, recycling in South Korea is a pretty involved process that includes separating aluminum from glass, batteries from Styrofoam and even vinyl bags from plastic ones and they are plainly marked in both English and Korean. Read more
SLOW TRAVEL & LIVING ABROAD PCS Time – How to Stay Positive: This Too Will Pass Posted on February 16, 2017November 15, 2025 Every PCS is different. It’s way too easy to focus on all the stress, uncertainty, career and relationship challenges we have to overcome to live a life that’s positive and full of gratitude. Growth occurs when we make the effort to see the obstacles for what they really are– life lessons and opportunities to live in real time and not the past or the present. Read more
WELLNESS ON THE ROAD Army PCS Life: How to Stay Sane While Waiting on Orders Posted on February 13, 2017July 24, 2026 I love a good mystery. Don’t you? Here we are, a little over two months from our deros (departure) date from South Korea and we are still waiting on orders. We have no idea where we are going next. You would think after more than 20 years, I’d be used to the hurry up and wait mentality of the military. Read more