Wherever We May Roam - Travels With Jim and Rita
Not all travel is created equal. Some people take a two-week vacation and call it an adventure. Others disappear for months—or years—without ever really “coming home.” We discuss the challenges, rewards, and drawbacks of travel both domestically and overseas. Information for the would-be expat, digital nomad, roving retiree, or just plain traveler. We can help you find the travel style that is right for you. But this isn’t just theory. Drawing on over 16 years of real-world experience, Jim and Rita Santos share practical, honest advice on what it actually takes to travel longer, smarter, and with fewer surprises. Host Jim Santos is a published travel writer with over 200 articles and eight books (jimsantos.net). He and his wife Rita lived in Ecuador for 6 years, and have tried every style of travel - including selling their home at one point to travel full-time. They and are currently enjoying the roving retirement lifestyle, taking trips of 2-3 months and returning to their home base to visit family and friends.
Wherever We May Roam - Travels With Jim and Rita
Latest Episodes
Picking A Travel Credit Card
That $895 annual fee can either buy you real travel freedom or it can quietly drain your budget while you chase perks you never use. We put premium travel credit cards under a practical microscope and share what happens when you treat points li...
How Educational Travel Builds Confidence Through Connection
Saying yes to the kind of trip that makes your stomach flutter can be the start of a brand-new life. We sit down with Jewel Rozanski, a former public high school Spanish teacher who turned her passion for educational travel into Cultured Travel...
Choosing The Fear Of Regret Over The Fear Of Change
They sold their starter home, got rid of nearly everything, and pointed their lives toward Mexico with a dog and a whole lot of unknowns. Chris and Deanna Hahn join us from San Miguel de Allende just one month after making the move from the Los...
You Can Still Have A Great Trip In Peak Season
Summer travel can turn into a perfect storm: packed parking lots, brutal heat, inflated hotel prices, and kids melting down in line. We’ve lived it, and we also know it doesn’t have to be that way. Jim and Rita Santos share a smarter way to pla...
What If The Summer Getaway Is Disappearing
Memorial Day weekend at Virginia Beach is supposed to be packed, so when we stepped onto a nearly empty beach and a quiet boardwalk, we knew it wasn’t just the rain. We’re Jim and Rita Santos, and we use this familiar trip as a real-time signal...
Fan Mail
Good day! Thank you for the response. Hope you all are doing well. No worries! Happy to hear from you all and hope that the time off was good to you. Wow that's amazing you finished up a book on the downtime. Where are you all off to in the upcoming adventures? Since our message, we temporarily relocated from our home in St Pete, FL to Portland, Oregon (where I am from and have family & friends) for the birth of our son Elio. It's been quite the adventure entering into parenthood and loving every happy and difficult moment. Our plan is to return to FL this fall with a little traveling over the summer. Then hopefully some longer trips with the little one in 2027. Here are a few family pics we've taken on our local trips. 4 months old and he's already got his passport and ready to go! :)
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