What No One Tells You About Expat Loneliness…And To Get Through It
The loneliest I’ve ever felt wasn’t after a breakup or at some tear-filled funeral.
David Peluchette
8 American “Norms” That Make Absolutely No Sense Outside The U.S.!
What I Didn’t Realize About Life in the U.S… That is Until I Moved Abroad and Got a Reality Check!
I used to think everyone iced their drinks. Like, religiously. I mean, what kind of monster drinks a lukewarm Coke?
Then I moved to Ukraine in 1999 and ordered a soda at a café in Kyiv.
10 Lies Social Media Tells You About Living The Digital Nomad Dream!
What Influencers Won’t Admit About Life Abroad… and What You’ll Learn the Hard Way!
I had just arrived in Phuket, and I was convinced I’d cracked the Instagram code to life.
5 Bureaucratic Nightmares Abroad That Nearly Broke Me! What They Don’t Warn You About…
From Visa Typos to Spy Accusations. How to Survive Expat Bureaucracy Hell!
It started in a musty Kyiv office.
8 Shocking European Foods Banned In The U.S.A! Tit For Tat, Or Just Safer?
The Other Side of the Food Fight: Why the U.S. Bans These European Delicacies
When I first moved to Europe, France, specifically, I was ready to embrace the food revolution.
I pictured myself in a sun-drenched Toulouse apartment, grabbing a baguette from the corner boulangerie, one so fresh it hadn’t met a preservative since Marie Antoinette’s head rolled off the guillotine.
7 Overrated Tourist Traps That, “Psst”… Locals Secretly Love!
Locals Call It a Tourist Trap… Right Before You Catch Them There on the Weekends Ordering Their Usual
They told you to avoid these places. I’ve told you to avoid these places! But here’s what locals know that you don’t….
7 Life-Altering Lessons I Learned Abroad After Leaving America Behind…
What No One Tells You About Starting Over in a New Country… Until It’s Too Late…
Four months. That’s how long I’d been living in my mom’s basement. Not figuratively, literally.
8 Overhyped Travel Hacks That Waste Your Time! And What Smart Travelers Do Instead…
Everyone Swears by These So-Called Tips, But Most of Them Don’t Even Work! Here’s What Actually Does!
It was somewhere between the third “Genius Packing Hack” and the fifth “Travel Tip You Need to Know Before Your Next Flight” that I realized I’d been duped.
I Left The U.S. To ‘Find Freedom’! But These 9 Eye-Openers About Life Abroad Proved Otherwise…
Everyone’s Ditching America! But There Are Hidden Perks That Made Me Grateful I Was Born There.
It hit me sometime around my fourth soul-sucking trip to a government office in Kyiv, 1999.
7 Countries That Are A Breeze For Travelers And 5 That May Break Your Heart If You’re Not Ready!
Some Countries Roll Out the Red Carpet, Others Roll You Up In It.
One minute I was breezing through immigration in Spain, practically handed a glass of Rioja with my stamp, excited to start the Camino de Santiago and wondering why everyone made international travel sound so complicated.
A few months later, I was stuck at the Polish-Ukrainian border, passport in a grim-faced officer’s hand, customs agents tearing through our humanitarian vans like we were smuggling gold.