KAREN McCANN

​#1 Amazon bestseller in Kindle travel books
​#1 Amazon bestseller in Kindle travel books on Spain
​#1 Amazon bestseller in Kindle travel books
 
​​My checkered past includes working as a journalist, editor, graphic designer, corporate communications director, marketing consultant, and copywriter in Cleveland, California, amd Boston. When my husband, Rich, took early retirement, we began volunteering as business consultants to struggling microenterprises in emerging and post-war nations.

During our 32 years of marriage we’ve visited more than 60 countries together, and of all those places, Seville is the one that kept calling us back. Vacations there grew longer and longer until in 2004 we decided to make it our home “for a year.” We’re still there and still in love with the city. We also make regular visits back to the States, because America is something you have to stay in practice for, and we don’t want to lose our touch.

When we reached our sixties, Rich and I began to wonder whether we could still have the kind of spontaneous travel adventures we’d enjoyed in our youth, so we set off to find out. One August morning, we walked out of our Seville apartment and strolled to the train station with small, roll-aboard bags, a Eurail pass, and a railway map of Europe. With no reservations, no fixed time limit, and only a loose idea of an itinerary, we spent three months riding the rails, mostly through Eastern Europe. The results of this and other journeys became two bestselling travel memoirs, three guides, and a host of blog posts, interviews, and articles. My travel tips and adventure stories have appeared in Huffington Post, International Living Magazine, New York Daily News, Los Angeles Times, and Lonely Planet.

And here’s what I’ve learned: No! You absolutely do not have to settle for boring, predictable travel at any age. In fact, you don’t have to settle for a boring, predictable life either. If, like me, you spent your childhood secretly longing to live overseas, maybe this is the time to start thinking seriously about how much you might enjoy moving abroad.


MY TRAVEL BOOKS​

Dancing in the Fountain
How to Enjoy Living Abroad 

Adventures of a Railway Nomad
How Our Journeys Guide Us Home

How to Meet People on the Road

Pack Light

​101 Ways to Enjoy Living Abroad
​Essential Tips for Easing the Transition to Expat Life
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BOOK & AUTHOR PHOTOS​
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PRESS
The Huffington Post
Los Angeles Times
​New York Daily News ​
​International Living Magazine
The Globe and Mail
​Johnny Jet Travel Style
Senior Planet
Plum Deluxe
The Travel Belles
The Spain Scoop
Women Travel the World 
Expatica
InterNations Expat Blog
​The Korea Herald 
​The San Jose Mercury News
More​
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  "McCann's writing is warm, inviting, immediately charming, and constantly entertaining. Her narrative was so good I found myself wanting to hear more about Cleveland! Now THAT's good travel writing!"
Chris Brady
New York Times bestselling author of A Month of Italy