Author Rachel Denning

Rachel Denning

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Mother of six kids, Rachel has traveled with them to 12 countries, along the way inspiring you to get out there and pursue your own unique dreams. Want an awesome life? Learn how with this free video

How to Fund Travel as a Freelance Writer

Photo by Aaron Teasdale The best secret ski towns of North America? That's the topic that freelance writer Aaron Teasdale recently wrote about for National Geographic Traveler. Ironically, he wrote th...

The Exhilaration of Exploring New Places – León Nicaragua

We astoundingly made it into Nicaragua. Spending the night in León, we liked what we saw as we explored the next day. The city was colonial and quaint, big, but not TOO large. It had some nice grocery stores...

Evading Cop Bribes and Borrowing Money to Get Into Nicaragua (aka Crossing TWO Borders in ONE Day with 5 Kids!) – El Sal/Honduras & Honduras/Nicaragua

Unfortunately, El Salvador didn't have what we were looking for. So we made the decision to move on to Nicaragua. That inevitably meant crossing through a small portion of Honduras. Might as well do it on...

Why We Spent Only One Short Week in El Salvador Part 2 (and Our Next Crazy Challenge)

With the sun always comes new hope and perspective. The darkness of the previous night dissipated with the suns rays. Greg was feeling better, we had a filling breakfast at the gas station ‘buffet’, and reco...

Life Sucks And Then You Die (or How Books Will Change Your Life)

Maybe I was depressed. Life had turned out to be so much more disappointing than I had hoped and dreamed and planned it to be. My theme song (I have one for every life stage) was Coldplay’s Viva la Vida: ...

Why We Spent Only One Short Week in El Salvador (and the Precariousness of Travel)

We made it to El Salvador. For months, almost since we'd come to Guatemala, my husband always said, "I want to check out El Salvador. I want to go to El Salvador." El Salvador was always on his mind. We'd...

Guatemala El Salvador Border Crossing

Last time they wouldn't let us in. We tried to visit their country. But they told us we were 'illegals', and wouldn't let us come in. So we went back to Guatemala, then the next time we renewed our visa's...

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How to Fund Family Travel with Travel Hacking – 4 Easy Steps

How to travel more. For less. That's always the question. Isn't it? Whether your single, married, have kids... we all want to know, 'How can we/I travel more, and pay less to do it?" Our entire How to ...

Time to Say Goodbye to Guatemala… for Good?

These little ladies came to wish us farewell... and even shed a tear. I was so touched. It always happens this way. We knew it was going to happen sometime. We thought it would have happened a lot sooner...

How to Handle Family Health Care While Traveling

In November 2013, we officially left Guatemala and hit the road again. Within a two week period we explored some of Guatemala, drove through El Salvador, a smidgen of Honduras and then into Nicaragua. Do ...