Hi, I’m TWIST (yes, it’s my real name) PHELAN.

I had a passport and took my first international flight before I was one year old. After I retired from practicing law (I sued middle-aged white guys who stole other people’s money), I bought a boat and circumnavigated the globe for ten years. I also earned my pilot’s wings.

In 2013, I started traveling with my photographer husband; nearly every month we go somewhere (usually several somewheres). Ninety countries on six continents later, people are asking, “When are you going to stop?”

(Clearly, I have to get to more of New England and Africa.)

This question assumes our travel is temporary. In fact, this peripatetic existence is our life, one I’m excited about and committed to keep living. Travel has taught me so many things—about myself, my relationship with my husband, the world at large, and the people in it. I’m not ready to stop learning.

When we started our travels, I didn’t anticipate embracing a nomadic lifestyle so completely. Am I a travel addict? Perpetual wanderer? Perhaps. Probably. Call it a bad case of fernwah: farsickness, a yearning for distant places.

Along the way, I’ve had many fantastic experiences and made some epic blunders. Landing in Bucharest to discover the non-refundable hotel I booked is in Budapest? Dropping my passport down a storm drain less than twelve hours before my flight to Thailand? Taking a wrong turn on my bicycle in Australia and getting mugged by a kangaroo? Check, check, and check.

I started writing about my travels on Facebook several years ago as a way to answer my friends’ eternal question, “Where are you?” Readers soon wanted more—product reviews, insider’s tips, a searchable database—so I created this site.

I post every week, using my research and experience—and what I’ve learned from my mistakes!—to help you save money and make smart choices. I also hope to inspire and entertain you, perhaps make you think about the world differently.

Don’t just travel. Travel better. TRAVELS WITH TWIST can help you get there.

Bon voyage, wherever you may go—

Twist