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Why Nomadic Choice?

Living a lifestyle of choosing travel experiences over stuff

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It’s a lifestyle choice.

“Nomadic Choice” is a lifestyle of choosing travel experiences over stuff.   Buying, owning, and storing fewer material possessions provides freedom for more travel and other life experiences.  

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Amalfi Coast

6 highlights of the Amalfi Coast

May 7, 2019 / Christy Tappy / 0

Ciao! I recently spent a couple of weeks in Europe visiting both Spain and Italy.  Barcelona and the beach of Sitges were the first stops in Spain followed by Venice, Florence, Tuscany and the Amalfi Coast in Italy. Ahhhh wanderlust will spur you to places you can’t wait to see and share with someone you […]

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Malawi Africa What happiness Looks Like

Africa: What happiness looks like.

September 13, 2018 / Christy Tappy / 0

This image for me is my forever reminder that happiness is not about money, clothes, where you live or where you work, your shoes or your hair, or about how many people like you or call you.  It’s much simpler than that. A few years ago I was a member of a medical and optical […]

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Garden of the Gods Scenic Image

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks – Muir

August 17, 2018 / Christy Tappy / 2

I fondly remember encounters with authentic people who cross my path and without them knowing they change me in some way and remain in my memory forever. Today I had one of those encounters. This morning my friend’s 14-year-old daughter, Lily, and I struck out early for a hike through Garden of the Gods park […]

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Hawaii Big Island Aerial View

Hawaii travel tips for the Big Island

June 8, 2018 / Christy Tappy / 1

Aloha Hawaii is one of only two places I return to again and again.  From the minute the airplane door opens and the warm, floral, salty air floats in an instant calm sets in.  There is a simplicity of life here for me. Tropical flowers are eye candy on a grand scale.  Plumeria against a […]

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Solo tree at Winter Park

Why is minimalism so popular?

March 22, 2018 / Christy Tappy / 0

Minimalism, the notion of buying and owning only the items you really need, is growing in popularity and especially among millennials.   This generation has grown up consuming digital content from music, books and games rather than the physical formats of their parents’ generation (like books, CD’s, DVD’s, board-games).  The non-millennials are quickly adapting to the […]

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How I became a nomad

Why I’ve decided to travel and own less

March 15, 2018 / Christy Tappy / 0

Some of my earliest childhood memories include traveling and waiting around airports. After leaving the Marines in the early 60’s my dad, Rick, was hired as an air freight agent with United Airlines in Los Angeles. While living in LA, he met my mother Judy.  Her parents and two siblings were from Hawthorne, and though […]

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Playa Danta Beach Sunset

Costa Rica, Guanacaste

December 19, 2017 / Christy Tappy / 1

Pura Vida “pure life” or the “simple life” is the term Costa Rican’s use to describe their way of life.  It’s completely accurate. This post was requested by my friend Suzanne Goldman of San Francisco, CA (U.S.A.) By way of background, Bruce and I have several friends who own property in the Brasalito and Playa […]

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Why Choose Experiences Over Stuff?

December 4, 2017 / Christy Tappy / 2

My web page is entitled “Nomadic Choice” because I’m choosing to live a life of experiences over stuff. Choosing to buy, own, and store fewer material possessions gives me the freedom to have more travel and other life experiences. It’s a lifestyle choice.   Excess in America America is in a crisis of materialism. We […]

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Venice after a storm

20 tips for travel to Venice

November 19, 2017 / Christy Tappy / 1

I’ve always had an appreciation for uniqueness and for that reason Venice is a top destination.  Nowhere else in the world will you find over 100 little islands connected together by a vast network of canals.  A thousand years of architecture, history, art, music, and romantic gondola rides in the evening while sharing wine and […]

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Julie Reichelderfer Photo Nomadic Choice

We have so much to learn from the dying

November 13, 2017 / Christy Tappy / 3

is my life philosophy. It’s a complete sentence that sums up my approach to living. The phrase comes from the Roman poet Horace (23 BC), and literally means “Pluck the day“, though it’s usually translated as “Seize the day“. If you’ve read my bio you know that my younger sister, Julie, recently died of brain […]

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Rome Colosseum

12 tips and insights for Rome

September 28, 2017 / Christy Tappy / 0

Rome is a fantastic city.  You will love this city for the history and ancient ruins.  There are close to 3,000 years of architecture, art and culture to experience.  It’s a sprawling city so it’s a good idea to have a plan to cover the top sights on your itinerary.  We recently went to Rome […]

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mapping the journey

6 Ways To Turn Trash Into Travel Cash

September 28, 2017 / Christy Tappy / 0

The average American household has a whopping 300,000 items, a two – car garage that one third of us can’t park a car in because there isn’t room.  We have basements and closets jammed full of ‘stuff’.  There are approximately 50,000 storage facilities in the US that is more than the total number of Starbucks […]

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