I have a stable career and a wonderful home and a "normal" life, but I miss traveling around the world. We now have mortgages and dogs and dog boarding and cars and just ...bills. We *can* afford airfare and hotels most of the time, but we want to experience the culture and not just the downtown Hilton. We've also found that the locals know all the really good/secret spots! We found a beautiful black sand beach in Hawaii from a local who showed us where the unmarked trail head was. We had the entire beach to basically ourselves with only 2 other people... simply fantastic!

Just about anything, but I did grow up on John Denver and I met him once...so he's always a favorite. Movies - Pixar, Disney and anything Marvel. Books - Fantasy and novels - like Brandon Sanderson and Barbra Kingsolver. I've read a lot of Nora Roberts, but just because she's good for reading on planes.