DiscoverWherever We May Roam - Travels With Jim and Rita
Wherever We May Roam - Travels With Jim and Rita
Claim Ownership

Wherever We May Roam - Travels With Jim and Rita

Author: Jim Santos, travel writer and his wife, Rita

Subscribed: 5Played: 127
Share

Description

Not all travel is created equal. Some people take a two-week vacation and call it an adventure. Others disappear for months—or years—without ever really “coming home.”  We discuss the challenges, rewards, and drawbacks of travel both domestically and overseas. Information for the would-be expat, digital nomad, roving retiree, or just plain traveler. We can help you find the travel style that is right for you. But this isn’t just theory. Drawing on over 16 years of real-world experience, Jim and Rita Santos share practical, honest advice on what it actually takes to travel longer, smarter, and with fewer surprises. Host Jim Santos is a published travel writer with over 200 articles and eight books (jimsantos.net). He and his wife Rita lived in Ecuador for 6 years, and have tried every style of travel - including selling their home at one point to travel full-time. They and are currently enjoying the roving retirement lifestyle, taking trips of 2-3 months and returning to their home base to visit family and friends.

79 Episodes
Reverse
Send us Fan Mail You can live overseas for years and still feel your stomach drop the first time you travel alone. That tension between “I want to go” and “what if I can’t handle it” drives our conversation with Paula Barnes, the travel creator and expat storyteller behind Truly Expat Travel, joining us from Sydney. Paula shares how a “six-month” move from Australia turned into nearly two decades across Asia, raising three kids in places like Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong. We talk about t...
Send us Fan Mail You can spend a fortune on a “once-in-a-lifetime” family vacation and still come home thinking, we barely connected. That’s why we sat down with Paul Partridge, a former financial advisor and retirement planner who now designs multigenerational trips as a different kind of investment: time together that turns into stories your family repeats for years. Paul shares the planning mindset behind his company, Travel Villa Guide, including a simple but powerful tool he calls trave...
Send us Fan Mail Travel technology is changing so fast that it can feel like you need a new degree just to book a flight. We sit down with Madison Rolley, a travel content creator and entrepreneur with a tech background, to bridge that gap and make modern trip planning feel simple, practical, and worth your time. Madison shares how studying abroad sparked her travel confidence, how she became a digital nomad at 22, and why moving too fast can burn out even the most excited traveler. From the...
Send us Fan Mail Weeks of travel planning can come down to one stubborn problem: turning a big dream into a realistic route that fits your time, energy, budget, and check-in times. We’re Jim and Rita Santos, and we’ve built plenty of complicated itineraries the old-fashioned way with spreadsheets, tabs, and too many “wait, what day do we check out?” mistakes. This time, we try something different: we hand AI a tight set of rules and see if it can draft a trip that actually matches our travel ...
Send us Fan Mail That $895 annual fee can either buy you real travel freedom or it can quietly drain your budget while you chase perks you never use. We put premium travel credit cards under a practical microscope and share what happens when you treat points like a tool instead of a hobby. We walk through the exact cards we carry and why: what Amex Platinum is good for when you’re traveling heavily, why Amex Gold can be the smarter long-term play for dining and groceries, and why you still n...
loading
Comments