
A long-overdue vacation transformed Belinda Woodhouse’s life.
She decided to leave the Royal Australian Navy and let her wanderlust take her roaming the planet in free, sandal-wearing bliss.
Today, she has been published over 70 times in magazines, online platforms and blogs.
Bel has also written three travel books with two more in the pipeline. (See Episode Resources below.)
Her photography is published with her articles, in books, and is sold on both Alamy and Bigstock major stock sites.
Nothing is safe from her curiosity. Bel loves adventure, exploration and the wild places, where you’ll find her climbing all over ruins, tubing down jungle rivers, and exploring the depths of the oceans, all while laughing and loving every minute of it. She wouldn’t change a thing.
Bel currently lives on the gorgeous Caribbean island of Cozumel in Mexico with her best travel buddy, her Halloween born black cat Fantasma.
“Becoming a travel writer is the best change I ever made,” Bel told us.
She loves her life (and you can love yours, too)!
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Episode Resources
- Bel’s Amazon author page
- 21 Reasons to Visit Antigua, Guatemala
- 21 Reasons to Visit Cozumel Island, Mexico
- 21 Reasons to Visit Lake Atitlan, Guatemala (coming soon!)
- Bel’s blog, The Travel Bag
- The Travel Writer’s Life
- The Photographer’s Life
- The Fluffernutter and Banana Sandwich of Portable Careers, article about travel blogging.
Resources Page
Check out our new mega-resources page at anywhereist.com/resources.
Basically, it gives you everything we use to make our Anywhereist lives easier, simpler, more fun, or to save us money. It can do the same for you.
Some of the links on the Resources page are affiliate links, which means if you click and purchase, I earn a small commission. When you buy from our affiliate links, it helps to support the podcast, so let me say thanks in advance!
Episode Music
Thanks for the great music! Our theme music is provided by SoundCloud, and we’re featuring artist ItIs Leanne, playing Corta-Jaca – tango brasileiro.
Follow Your Co-Hosts
Your co-hosts are Susanna Perkins (Anywhereist) and Kitty Navias.

Susanna’s a serial solopreneur, blogger, freelance writer, WordPress maven, and all-around portable career enthusiast. She developed her anywhereist lifestyle in an act of desperation following the US financial meltdown in 2009. During that time she’s moved 7 times, and worked from hundreds of locations at home and abroad.
Kitty’s a millennial with a lot of creative pursuits — she’s a musician, photographer, and writer. She’s traveled extensively, with plans for a lot more. On the show, Kitty will be providing us with tips and resources to keep our lives under control and moving in a forward direction as we become Anywhereists.
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