Comments on: Living Large on a Small Budget: Interview with Nora Dunn http://www.travelblogs.com/interviews/living-large-on-a-small-budget-interview-with-nora-dunn Stories, Advice and the Internet's Best Travel Blogs Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:40:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Nora http://www.travelblogs.com/interviews/living-large-on-a-small-budget-interview-with-nora-dunn/comment-page-1#comment-30299 Nora Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:55:10 +0000 http://www.travelblogs.com/?p=1396#comment-30299 Whoops - I'm a little late getting back to this one! @Milton: Sure - there are lots of business opportunities abroad! They are largely dependent on your skills, available money, and travel preferences/lifestyle. Having a location independent income is great for giving you options (I've got that with writing). But the sky is the limit if you are an imaginative entrepreneur... Whoops – I’m a little late getting back to this one! @Milton: Sure – there are lots of business opportunities abroad! They are largely dependent on your skills, available money, and travel preferences/lifestyle. Having a location independent income is great for giving you options (I’ve got that with writing). But the sky is the limit if you are an imaginative entrepreneur…

]]> By: Milton http://www.travelblogs.com/interviews/living-large-on-a-small-budget-interview-with-nora-dunn/comment-page-1#comment-19493 Milton Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:20:38 +0000 http://www.travelblogs.com/?p=1396#comment-19493 Congrats to you Nora on escaping the mundaneness of life. If you don't mind me asking, what are the potential business opportunities that you have found working as a traveler living in a budget? Congrats to you Nora on escaping the mundaneness of life.

If you don’t mind me asking, what are the potential business opportunities that you have found working as a traveler living in a budget?

]]> By: Shangrila Murree http://www.travelblogs.com/interviews/living-large-on-a-small-budget-interview-with-nora-dunn/comment-page-1#comment-18643 Shangrila Murree Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:27:11 +0000 http://www.travelblogs.com/?p=1396#comment-18643 Great Interview Nora. Making money to travel, when traveling is not so easy. So well done Nora! And congrats on the book!Thanks for the sharing. Great Interview Nora. Making money to travel, when traveling is not so easy. So well done Nora! And congrats on the book!Thanks for the sharing.

]]> By: lift surfer - the ride share guy http://www.travelblogs.com/interviews/living-large-on-a-small-budget-interview-with-nora-dunn/comment-page-1#comment-16966 lift surfer - the ride share guy Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:04:20 +0000 http://www.travelblogs.com/?p=1396#comment-16966 Zoop, Im sure you mean east europe! :-) west europe is expeeensive! especially with my crappy aussie dollars. Zoop, Im sure you mean east europe! :-) west europe is expeeensive! especially with my crappy aussie dollars.

]]> By: C.Calin http://www.travelblogs.com/interviews/living-large-on-a-small-budget-interview-with-nora-dunn/comment-page-1#comment-16452 C.Calin Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:09:19 +0000 http://www.travelblogs.com/?p=1396#comment-16452 That's right !you can't survive in N.Y with... 1200 dolars/month C.Calin That’s right !you can’t survive in N.Y with… 1200 dolars/month

C.Calin

]]> By: ZooP http://www.travelblogs.com/interviews/living-large-on-a-small-budget-interview-with-nora-dunn/comment-page-1#comment-16078 ZooP Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:11:10 +0000 http://www.travelblogs.com/?p=1396#comment-16078 If you have a small budget for a travel, go to the West Europe. For example - Ukraine. If you like a sea, mountains you must visit Crimea. Crimean peninsula is great place. Mountains, mountains river, prairie, and beatiful Black Sea. Its my idea. If you have a small budget for a travel, go to the West Europe. For example – Ukraine. If you like a sea, mountains you must visit Crimea. Crimean peninsula is great place. Mountains, mountains river, prairie, and beatiful Black Sea. Its my idea.

]]> By: Nora http://www.travelblogs.com/interviews/living-large-on-a-small-budget-interview-with-nora-dunn/comment-page-1#comment-15302 Nora Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:52:09 +0000 http://www.travelblogs.com/?p=1396#comment-15302 @Linda - Thanks! I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't value money over everything else (but then again, I always knew we weren't alone) @Ricia - You bring up a good point: although I could technically travel forever, I have no delusions that I will. Stopping in Oz has been a wonderful exercise of catching my breath long enough to keep traveling longer than the average person, but I know that eventually I'll re-adopt a more settled life, and I imagine it will be novel enough when it happens that it will be freeing more than constricting. Cheers! @Linda – Thanks! I’m glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t value money over everything else (but then again, I always knew we weren’t alone)

@Ricia – You bring up a good point: although I could technically travel forever, I have no delusions that I will. Stopping in Oz has been a wonderful exercise of catching my breath long enough to keep traveling longer than the average person, but I know that eventually I’ll re-adopt a more settled life, and I imagine it will be novel enough when it happens that it will be freeing more than constricting.

Cheers!

]]> By: Ricia Jenkins http://www.travelblogs.com/interviews/living-large-on-a-small-budget-interview-with-nora-dunn/comment-page-1#comment-15193 Ricia Jenkins Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:22:56 +0000 http://www.travelblogs.com/?p=1396#comment-15193 Your story hit close to home. When I was thirty, I took off on what was to be a RTW trip--first stop Hawaii. There I met and married my husband, bringing those plans to an end. Thirty years later, with the dream still alive, I set off to accomplish what I'd started back then. In May 2006 I left Arizona for Paris, this time heading east. Sixteen months later I was back in Hawaii after traveling through eastern Europe, Turkey, Africa, India, Nepal and most of SE Asia. On my 60th birthday I was on a flight from Kathmandu to Bangkok. Seated next to me was a stranger(now a friend) who helped celebrate my birthday when we landed in Thailand. Keep your dream going as long as your heart desires. You are lucky to have developed ways of supporting yourself while out there. There was a time on the journey that I thought I could do it forever--but things call you back and I'm happy to be home now. Your story hit close to home. When I was thirty, I took off on what was to be a RTW trip–first stop Hawaii. There I met and married my husband, bringing those plans to an end. Thirty years later, with the dream still alive, I set off to accomplish what I’d started back then. In May 2006 I left Arizona for Paris, this time heading east. Sixteen months later I was back in Hawaii after traveling through eastern Europe, Turkey, Africa, India, Nepal and most of SE Asia. On my 60th birthday I was on a flight from Kathmandu to Bangkok. Seated next to me was a stranger(now a friend) who helped celebrate my birthday when we landed in Thailand. Keep your dream going as long as your heart desires. You are lucky to have developed ways of supporting yourself while out there. There was a time on the journey that I thought I could do it forever–but things call you back and I’m happy to be home now.

]]> By: Linda Wood http://www.travelblogs.com/interviews/living-large-on-a-small-budget-interview-with-nora-dunn/comment-page-1#comment-14921 Linda Wood Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:28:21 +0000 http://www.travelblogs.com/?p=1396#comment-14921 I am living a life with sparse financial resources. And yet, I am enjoying my life to the fullest. Indeed, I really believe with the saying that is money not the only thing that makes the world go round. It's actually the simple things around that's offering better and more profound happiness. Linda Wood I am living a life with sparse financial resources. And yet, I am enjoying my life to the fullest. Indeed, I really believe with the saying that is money not the only thing that makes the world go round. It’s actually the simple things around that’s offering better and more profound happiness.

Linda Wood

]]> By: Nora http://www.travelblogs.com/interviews/living-large-on-a-small-budget-interview-with-nora-dunn/comment-page-1#comment-14875 Nora Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:00:32 +0000 http://www.travelblogs.com/?p=1396#comment-14875 @John - The Aussie visas were not typical visas at all....Australian Immigration and the Canadian High Commission got together to grant this for us, since we were instrumental in providing relief supplies to the victims of the 2009 Victorian bushfires. I am incredibly impressed that this concession was granted nonetheless (it was the farthest thing from our minds when we were volunteering, to expect something in return), and Australia has more than once shown me that rules can be bent given the right circumstances. @John – The Aussie visas were not typical visas at all….Australian Immigration and the Canadian High Commission got together to grant this for us, since we were instrumental in providing relief supplies to the victims of the 2009 Victorian bushfires.
I am incredibly impressed that this concession was granted nonetheless (it was the farthest thing from our minds when we were volunteering, to expect something in return), and Australia has more than once shown me that rules can be bent given the right circumstances.

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