But… what do you do about health insurance when you leave the country? What do you do when you have to go to the doctor when you’re traveling or living abroad? I get variations on these questions more than most others, partly because I have a lot of Americans buying my cheap living abroad book …

“So what’s it like living there in Mexico?” People in my country of birth ask me this a lot. Usually with a bit of trepidation in their voice, like I’m going to tell them five horrible things that happened to me in the last five weeks. In reality though, life as a Mexpat is good. …

Twice in my life I have spent several days off the grid in Peru, slogging up and down the Andes Mountains on the way to Machu Picchu. Once I did it on the Inca Trail, another time on the Salkantay Trail. These two Peru treks present very different experiences, both with their pros and cons. …

As we began 2019, Perceptive Travel entered its 14th year of publishing great travel stories from book authors. So if nothing else, I’m persistent. For another 12 months we put out the best travel writing of 2019.  Maybe I’m a little stubborn too, because if I wanted to just gets lots of traffic and pump …

The food of Greece doesn’t get the same respect as that of its neighbor Turkey, but Greek cuisine is one of the world’s oldest and most pervasive. Many items from this the Mediterranean country have made their way around the world over the course of two millennia and that still continues today. Also, although this …