About NomadWomen…and Donna

Now in my 70s, I created Nomad Women in 2014 to inspire and empower women like me who travel… or want to. We’re not girls. We’re not “Millennials” or “Gen-Xers” or “Gen-Zers.” We’re not kids. We are mature women, and we’ve been around awhile… around the block, around the country, or around the world… and we’re not done yet.

Call us Baby Boomers. Call us the Peter Pan Generation. Call us 50+ers or Women of a Certain Age. Just don’t call us OLD.

Back in the ’60s and ’70s, we helped change the world. Now, in our 60s and 70s (or almost, or beyond), we want to see more of it. Ours was the first generation to haul our backpacks across Europe in huge numbers, with a battered and dog-eared copy of “Europe on $5 a Day” in hand. Today, we still travel in huge numbers, maybe a little more comfortably and a lot more wisely.

We’ve slowed down, not because of age, but because of wisdom. We want to see more clearly, learn more deeply, experience more wholly. Our sense of adventure is intact, tempered with the common sense that comes with having a few more years on our clocks.

If you’re a frequent or long-time traveler, I want this online space to help you do it even more and better. Let NomadWomen tempt you to the “Insider” spots I’ve discovered and inspire you to experience every trip more deeply and richly.

If you’ve never traveled, whether because of fear, family, finances, whatever, I want to show you how you can and why you should.

If you think you’re traveling days are past, I want to try to prove you wrong.

My aim is to be the trusted voice with a great travel story to tell to ignite your travel dreams. With information, inspiration, and example, I want to empower us all to get up, get out, and see all that the world still has to offer us. And all that we can give back to it. Because…. We’re Not Done Yet!

• Travel tips on how to get the most from your travels, no matter your age
• Inspiration on where to go and what to see—from someone who’s been there, done that
• Stop fear of traveling solo in its tracks, plus how to also best enjoy traveling with a group
• What to eat and drink when you’re out in the world…and why the world is such a delicious place
• How to travel farther and more frequently on a limited budget
• Reviews of some of the best small, little-known museums in the world, great restaurants along the road, and hotels and other accommodations where you’ll feel more than comfortable
• Travel for older couples, travel with siblings, and multi-generational trips
• … and that’s just for starters

After I graduated, I finally headed out on my dream trip, guidebook and guitar in hand. I had enough money, I figured, to stay 6-8 weeks, depending on where I headed and luck.

In the end, I stayed in Europe two years, mostly living in London and Amsterdam. I worked a few odd jobs, some legally with work permits (like waiting tables in a Howard Johnson’s coffee shop in Amsterdam) and others less so (like selling—or trying to sell—encyclopedias door-to-door in London…at which I was a miserable failure). Anything to stay longer!

Later, when I was married and living in New York City for 20 years, my husband and I traveled several times to Europe and Mexico: Seven weeks traveling around Italy, three months living in a tiny Medieval French village, months at a time in the Netherlands, riding our bikes between Dutch cities, twice a year to central Mexico. In 1992, we moved full-time to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, one of the most magical towns in the world.

When I found myself suddenly and unexpectedly divorced after 25 years, travel became my salvation. I think that’s when I adopted my personal slogan: “Anyone who thinks you can’t run away from your troubles, never bought a plane ticket.”