How Street Performers Enhance Travel: A Look at our All-time Favorites

We LOVE street performers! 

Much in the same way that the food of a region can tell a story, we often learn about the culture of destinations we have visited through the art of the busker.

Join us on a journey through the world, through the very talented "man on the street"... CONTINUE READING >>

We are over-the-moon excited about the release of our new book, Going Gypsy, and to celebrate...

We want to see how YOU are #GoingGypsy!

Post your best #GoingGypsy moments on Facebook and Twitter and be automatically entered to win an autographed first edition of Going Gypsy! 

We want to see YOU in a favorite travel moment, celebrating a milestone, hugging your loved ones, conquering a fear, or posing with the cover of Going Gypsy!

We'll be sharing your fun on Facebook and Twitter - and you could even be featured here on GypsyNester.com!.. Click here to see how easy it is to share your #GoingGypsy moments!

Going Gypsy: One Couple's Adventure from Empty Nest to No Nest at All (find out more) Available from Skyhorse Publishing! Order Now - Wherever Books Are Sold! Also available as an audiobook from Audible.com

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Why We Love a Good Christmas Market

We love Christmas markets! 

The festivities, the food, the comraderie, the glühwein - put it all together and we've got ourselves a great way to ring in the season!

But really -- you ask -- how different can they be? Surely one Christmas market is the same as the next? 

Our reply? Not by a loooooooong shot! ... CONTINUE READING >>

Follow us here too!: Facebook - Twitter - YouTube - Google+ - Pinterest - Instagram - GoodReads - StumbleUpon - RSS Going Gypsy One Couple's Adventure from Empty Nest to No Nest at All (find out more) Coming in February 2015 from Skyhorse Publishing! Pre-Order Now - Wherever Books Are Sold!

Traveling in Dr. King's Footprints

Follow your GypsyNesters as we explore pivotal moments of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life though travel.

Join us in an emotional journey through Atlanta, Birmingham, Montgomery and Selma as we discover more about what had happened, what is happening now and our hope for the future... CONTINUE READING >>

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Swamps, Shrimp and Sea Monsters in Coastal Georgia

Just below, as in south of, the famous Carolina Lowcountry lies a lesser known region, Coastal Georgia.

Geographically, culturally, and historically this area is virtually indistinguishable from its northern neighbor, it's simply the Savannah River that separates them.

Join us as we survey the swamps, seafood, and even a sea serpent along the Atlantic shoreline.... CONTINUE READING >> 

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An Ode to the Home of Vidalia Onions (AND we have a winner of the digital camera!)

To paraphrase Shakespeare, would an onion by any other name taste as sweet?

We think not, since most onions are hardly sweet at all. So what's in a name? Vidalia, Vidalia, wherefore art thou Vidalia?

The only way to know for sure was to go directly to the... CONTINUE READING >> 

We are so excited to announce the winner of the Canon Powershot A2300 Digital Camera!... CONTINUE READING >>

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A Tale of Two Cities... Uh, Counties... No, States

Check this out: we're on the border of Tennessee and Georgia. We find a community that is split down the middle with a blue line painted through the town.

It gets weirder (YAY!) -- the blue line goes straight through buildings. Shops, a church, even a bar.

But wait, it gets weirder yet. The bar is also in two counties. And one of them is dry... CONTINUE READING >> 

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Finding Germany in the Mountains of Georgia

The unexpected surprises that lurk around the next corner are one of the things that can make travel so interesting.

Boy, did we get one of those in the mountains of northern Georgia when we came upon the old fashioned Bavarian village of Helen.

Tucked into a valley on the banks of The Chattahoochee River, we suddenly found ourselves driving through an anachronism of epic proportions. Every building, down to the gas station... CONTINUE READING >> 

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How to Volunteer at a National Park (and live for free!)

Kay, a veteran parks volunteer - and fellow GypsyNester - discusses how to apply, where one lives at the parks, what is expected of volunteers and, most importantly... CONTINUE READING >>

Okee Dokee Okefenokee

Yes, the Okefenokee Swamp is a real place - and we were up to our elbows in alligators!

Two things struck us, first, someone should try using an alligator next time they want to set the long jump world's record and, second, The Okefenokee's most famous resident, Pogo, had it wrong. We have met the enemy and he sure ain't us. He's all teeth and.... CONTINUE READING >>

Savannah Squared

Savannah is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. Or at least we didn't. But the city is gorgeous and the pace slow, so it seemed like a perfect place to take a little bicycle tour.

We did know that Forrest Gump waited for his bus somewhere in... CONTINUE READING >>

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Ed(isto Island)

Our adventure through the Sea Islands continues with a mysterious "mound of mystery," a secretive gathering of the world's richest men and a home built by the Undersheriff of Herefordshire in 1743, basically out of trash. It still... CONTINUE READING >>