The Power of a Sundowner

Around the world, Sundown is a time of reverence. People pause for a moment in their day to pay homage to the power of mother nature and acknowledge the continuance of life, moving into the next day.

On thing we miss here at home is the USA is the practice of a sundowner, taking a few minutes to stop and enjoy the moment. We have made a commitment to re-introduce this into our daily habit and appreciate the passing of another day, the blessing of being alive, and the respect for the cycle of life.

We had many miraculous sundowners in the course of our life, and here we’ll share a few of our favorites whether the moment be in Zanzibar, off the coast of East Africa:

 

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Featured on Briefcase to Backpack!

Not long ago, Jim & I were featured on the Career Break pages of Briefcase to Backpack, a site encouraging and teaching others how to take a successful and long-term career break. We were contacted by them after last years Meet, Plan, Go meetings when an encouraging numbers of newbies to extended travel were wondering just how it’s done!

The article turned out great. Check it out here:

Planning Another Career Break

Hello world!

Welcome to The Next Big Adventure! When we backpacked around the world  in 2007-2008 we realized we wanted to live a life less ordinary and The Next Big Adventure was conceived. With more & more travelers staying on the road longer, volunteering, blogging their way along, we also strive to become location independent. We do not want a life tied to a cubicle and 2 weeks of vacation. We don’t want to be people “living for the weekend’, we want to live life large everyday!

We’re just starting this website, having chronicled our previous trip on the bootsnall.com blog The Adventures of Jim and Rhonda, so we hope you follow us along on our quest for a life with no regrets.