It was at the exact same moment that Lisa and her husband realised what they wanted – needed – to do. So they bought a rustic property in Liguria (Italy) to create a community house sharing a rustic lifestyle with all who wish to visit!

Q. What triggered you to move the family?

Lisa: My husband and I began renovating houses, started a family and moved to Italy in 2005 with just a few suitcases and our two young children. We renovated a farmhouse and found a new life in the mountains.

After returning to Australia we soon realized that we wanted to go back to the simple life that we had left behind.

One day, my husband and I were in a seminar and were asked what we really wanted for our lives. We were sitting a few seats from each other and both leaned forward at exactly the same moment and said (more…)

Posted on May 07, 2013 in 52 Weeks of Passion, Escaping the Rat Race, Lifestyle, Travel and Adventure (Tags: Appreciate your family, Good Life Crisis, Health and Wellbeing, Italian home renovation, Lifestyle, Lifestyle Choices, Lisa Chiodo, Move to Italy, Passion, Renovating Italy) 4 Comments

Eartha Austria took the plunge and decided to travel the world and blog about it!

She quit her job, moved out of her home, sold and donated most of her belongings and couch-surfed with a friend for 6 months to save some money for the trip. She doesn’t know how her year  of travel is going to pan out, but she’s sure it’s going to be an (more…)

Posted on April 30, 2013 in 52 Weeks of Passion, Dream Lifestyle, Escaping the Rat Race, Lifestyle, Travel and Adventure (Tags: Design your lifestyle, Earth to Eartha, Eartha Austin, Good Life Crisis, Lifestyle, Lifestyle Choices, Quit your job, Travel Lifestyle, Travel the world) 2 Comments

Location freedom. The ability to earn money from anywhere in the world.

We are travelling for 3 years and most people we meet assume we are very very rich!! But alas financially this is not true… yet!

What we have is a travel income! We have created different income streams that are flexible and low maintenance. We can earn while we are by the beach in Bondi or climbing a volcano in a lake Nicaragua. (more…)

Posted on April 22, 2013 in Dream Lifestyle, Escaping the Rat Race, Lifestyle, Location Freedom, Travel and Adventure (Tags: Design your lifestyle, Lifestyle Design, Location Freedom, travel, Travel and work, Travel Income, Travel Jobs, Travel Lifestyle) 10 Comments

So many of you have asked where we are and what we are doing I thought I better update you on the life and adventures of Serena, Johnny and our travelling circus.

The travel update

We have officially finished Central America + Cuba + Mexico.

Random trivia: Mexico is not part of Central America

We fell in love with many countries and at this stage the most likely places we will rear our little offspring  are: (more…)

Posted on March 01, 2013 in Escaping the Rat Race, Lifestyle, Random Stuff!, Travel and Adventure, Where are we at? (Tags: Lifestyle, Lifestyle Design, Too much travel, Training Course, travel, Travel in Latin America, Travel Lifestyle) 4 Comments

This Friday we leave for San Francisco after 9 months and 5 days of travel. We have been to 12 countries since we left Sydney and the US will be lucky 13.

For some reason even though neither of us have ever been to San Francisco it feels like we are finishing our “holiday” and heading home, maybe because we are planning to stay there for a couple of months and maybe because we have family and friends there.

The truth is that the last few weeks we have been talking about San Francisco as if (more…)

Posted on January 11, 2013 in Dream Lifestyle, Escaping the Rat Race, Lifestyle, Travel and Adventure (Tags: Design your lifestyle, Lifestyle, Lifestyle Choices, Too much, Too much travel, Travel Lifestyle) No Comments

Every year seems to rush by… faster and faster!

As New Year’s Eve approaches I start to think about where the year went. A little stock take of what I achieved and didn’t achieve and what is in store for next year.

This year was a year of extremes… we changed everything about our lives.

Everything!

In the beginning we had three months of packing up our lives, selling everything and then the last nine months have been solid travel.

We have had some amazing adventures but not everything went as planned (more…)

Posted on December 30, 2012 in Dream Lifestyle, Escaping the Rat Race, Goals, Lifestyle, Musings and Observations, Travel and Adventure, Uncategorized, Where are we at? (Tags: Design your lifestyle, Lifestyle change, Lifestyle Design, travel, Travel in Latin America, Travel Lifestyle) 13 Comments