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gypsychristine

Hello all!  My name is Christine and I'm a gypsy at heart.  I was born in Saigon, Vietnam but grew up in sunny California.  My parents always valued traveling in our family so my mother took me to Europe when I was 13 and that forever cemented my love of travel.  I began backpacking at 21 back to Europe which remains my first love.  I than continued on to Brazil, India, Central America to name a few of the places I traveled to.  After about 50 countries, my boyfriend at the time and I began to seriously consider traveling for at least one year.  We bought a sailboat together and 4 years later - I am still an expat traveling on a sailboat around the Caribbean, but with a few major changes - a new boyfriend and his boat.  Who knew I would last so long living outside the US as basically a sailing Gypsy.  But as any gypsy knows, money is an issue and it is time to find work again.  My experience is mostly under the table as work permits are very expensive to apply for and not really worth the hassle as I stay for less than a year usually in a new place.  This time we have stopped in Aruba to see what the working climate holds for us before we continue onto my biggest traveling dream - the Pacific.

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Armand

Hi gypsychristine!

Welcome to Expat.com and thanks for the introduction.

Regards
Armand

legacy

u should definitely blog :P

gypsychristine

Thanks!  I used to have a blog, but it has been taken down now - nicecruising.com when I first began my journey but it's a hassle to write continuously, plus the computer side was done by my exboyfriend.  Now, I would be clueless as how to host my own site, etc. hehehe  Blogging can be very fun, but very time consuming, and especially frustrating in the islands where internet can be very slow and tedious. :)

Miro : The Artist

Christine .. I believe you should document all you life journey and your cruise in a book.. i feel it would nice to give real life experience being a marine gypsy or to tell about every place you had visited sure you own your private and unique point of view and unrepeated perspective for every thing that come along.. i wish to read all your life story and every thing you had done though your long endless journey..

Blogging would be good but it doesn't pay as much as books do.. so if you try to document your journeys in book illustrated with amazing photos from each place you had visited may be you can work also on a documentary film .. all that can make you a great living and you wouldn't need to work for any one any more.. and you would be your own boss and paying your bills though your travels..lol.. cause the more you travel the more you write and the more you would be able to write or document which for sure can get you money cash back..lol:D

what ever the kind of your books would be.. even simple pocket books each one about a country you visit or a big travel diary book with log and notes about each day experience and event..  what ever you choose I'm sure would be great .. by the way you can do both..hhih :D all you need is some organization and you wold be billionaire very soon.

I wish you all luck and I'm waiting to read your creative output.

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