Tag: Nomad Life
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Mexico – Maya Riviera to Bacalar
Unico Resort – Maya Riviera, Mexico As part of my divorce recovery plan, while losing my family home of twenty years, and during the pandemic, in a frenzied state of mind, I bought prepaid vacations in Mexico. So grateful I did. Four years in a row I have been able to take my daughter on…
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Five Years a Nomad
FIVE YEARS. Five years as a nomad from a creature of habit and familiarity. Five Years a Nomad. Divorce, Empty Nest, Pandemic, Mid-Life, 50s. The Perfect Storm! This is extraordinary to me. I was the ultimate creature of habit, routines, and familiarity. I chose to live at home and go to UC Santa Barbara so…
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Nomad Life 2024
PERKS OF BEING A NOMAD – LONDON EDITION (Nearly five years into being a nomad. Reflections of the last six months in and around London, sandwiched around family time in California. Fully accepting of divorced empty nester status. Can’t clip my wings now! From the journals.) June 2024Perks of being a Nomad – and chatting…
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LIFE IN STORAGE – Packing up, London bound!
December 2025 – Now it has been six years since the “last Christmas” which I then packed away into my new storage unit. SIX YEARS! And I’m still going. MARCH 3, 2024 It has been four years with my life in storage, in a 10×10 aluminum facility. Never dreamed when I got my empty unit…
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Familiarity in the Life of a Nomad
I was that person of tradition, of familiarity. I lived twenty years in the family home. Documented every bit of my life, and my family’s, in journals and photo albums. When my parents moved houses when I was seventeen, I made them recreate my childhood bedroom down to the exact same wallpaper!! I didn’t do…
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Six Weeks – Somewhere between Here, There and Everywhere.
(Nearing my fourth year of being a nomad, post Empty Nest, post Divorce and Pandemic, making the most of this unexpected Second Chapter. Please take a look at other posts under “Nomad Life”, “Second Chapters” where I used my journals to document the tortuous divorce, and “Travel Adventures” where I am documenting the incredible experiences…
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Nomad Nuggets
December 2025 update – Two years later, still a nomad! Still “Life in Storage”! Can’t imagine settling down again. A full three and a half years into this digital nomad life. Many of my “Reflections of a Nomad” still hold true. https://secondchapternomad.blog/2023/01/12/reflections-of-a-nomad/ I have more Nomad Nuggets to add after even more experiences. July 22,…
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Summer in the City, NYC 2023
Where to Live? 8 weeks in the Big Apple while the Rogue takes an acting class and I channel my inner Carrie Bradshaw for Summer in the City. I had visions of getting one pad for the whole time, but it’s so difficult. Expensive, awful and/or fake places. So, started at the Tribeca Sheraton for…
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Reflections of a Nomad (currently in London)
March 31, 2023 In route to Manchester from London. The magic of the train, whizzing through the countryside in the rain. I’ve posted nine “Quarantine Chronicles” covering March-September 2020 of the lockdown and divorce, including living with my Lockdown Loretta, a bright spot during a turbulent time. Going to visit her today brings me such…
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Reflections of a Nomad
January 1, 2023. Unbelievably I have been a nomad for three years now. Left the family home and put everything in storage January 2020. Between the divorce and the pandemic I never knew what was coming next. Now I still don’t see myself settling down in one place. Taking a moment to reflect on this…