Hi.
We are Bud and Beth. We sold most of our belongings (stored the rest) and hit the road for one year around the world. Follow our adventure as we go to 26 countries and 45 cities (give or take a few) in one year.
We are Bud and Beth. We sold most of our belongings (stored the rest) and hit the road for one year around the world. Follow our adventure as we go to 26 countries and 45 cities (give or take a few) in one year.
Buds Bio
Bud was born and raised in the Midwest. Finally arriving in Portland after a post college stop with Target stores in Minneapolis. Fred Meyer provided the platform for Bud to fall in love with traveling. At the age of 36, he had the opportunity to travel to the orient as an electronics and housewares buyer. Stops in Tokyo, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong over a 2-year period, sealed his early love of seeing other cultures and how people live their lives.
Subsequent travels ranged far and wide. From climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro and African Safari’s, to multiple trips in western Europe, Greece, Turkey and beyond. River cruises, bike & barging, Caribbean cruises. All this built his knowledge of peoples and places beyond the northern hemisphere.
“Goin Global 365” walks the contemporary traveler through the new world of ride sharing and home sharing while on a moderate budget. Yes; good food, yes; all the sights; yes, convenient travel. All above the hostel life but anything but 5-star.
Come join the adventure. Sign on as a travel partner as Bud become a “temporary local” during this trip of a lifetime.
The adventure begins May 12 2016!
Bon Voyage
I had long dreamed of seeing the world but day upon day would pass and I felt that the dream would never come true. Raising four kids and dealing with life’s individual demands has a way of pushing your dreams down and less exciting realities up.
In 2015 my partner and I did the unusual and gutsy thing by taking 10 days off and heading into the Nevada desert with 70,000 other young life-filled souls. We camped among a group of people we barely knew and survived dust, wind and heat. We had made it to Burning Man. Friends and family at home gave us cocked-headed looks and shrugged their shoulders. They cheered us on to what they felt was a wild and crazy journey. It was wild, it was eye opening and it definitely was fun. I had the feeling there was more. While we were there we saw so many people of all ages and all nationalities. I absolutely loved it!
One evening while lying in our little tent in the middle of Nevada with some type of trance/house/hiphop blended music in the back ground, we said “what’s next”? We don’t remember who said it but the idea came up – what if we could travel the world? What if we could step out of our lives and just go see what is out there. I had never traveled much. I had never made it to Mexico and I had never made it to Canada, not because I didn’t want too but because it never seemed possible.
As I rode my bike in the dust, cooked food in the dust, and laid in bed in the dust – I thought carefully about my hurdles and my dreams. My hurdles felt as big as my dreams but with an amazing partner and an extremely supportive family, I slowly knocked down one hurdle after another.
As of today, I am on the road and seeing what is beyond my comfort zone. I have left all my belongings behind and I have a suitcase and the hand of another person who is as curious as I am.
Hello – I am Beth Hansen – World Traveler.
