NextTribe: Good girlfriends, best travel sandals, and the Amazon

Plus a new approach to living after midlife

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The Jeannies at NextTribe
June 20, 2024

Greetings from the Jeannies!

While Jeannie Ralston is wrapping up our Scotland trip this week, “Other Jeannie” is still dog- and cat-sitting on Kauai, curling up with a few good articles from the last two weeks in NextTribe Magazine.

WFH = Work from hammock. Have to get on calls at 3AM local time but it’s worth it!

We’ve published so many interesting articles in the last 7 years! Use the search bar at the top of our home page and look for articles that interest you. You’ll get a good sense of the NextTribe “vibe.” In fact, you can search our names and see articles written by each of us “Jeannie’s.”

Mahalo for reading this, and we hope you enjoy the latest selections.

This Week’s New Reads

Having Good Girlfriends at Midlife Is Good Medicine—Literally

WTF Alert! Not having good pals is as dangerous to your health as smoking. So nurture those connections now.

My “Hunger Games” Approach to My Almost Empty Nest

As downsizing looms, Abby Alten Schwartz decides she’s done with domestic concerns and embraces a “be lazy” path to streamlining her home life.

Senior Living: How One Woman Is (Hurrah!) Reinventing It

Wouldn’t it be nice to live affordably among kindred spirits in a cool coliving situation? That’s the plan, thanks to pioneering activist Elizabeth White

Best Travel Sandals for Women: A NextTribe Guide

The perplexity of packing the perfect and perfectly wearable sandals for upcoming summer travel excursions can wreck a vacation. It can turn your trip into a harrowing, blister-inducing nightmare. 

Best Things to Do in Cuba: Discovering Its Beauty, Culture, and Heart

Close to home but so different, Cuba is the perfect place to explore fabulous cities, traditions, food, while giving back to the Cuban people

Traveling the Amazon River: One Writer’s Life & Death Journey

Deep in Peru’s rainforest, Nina Burleigh confronts alligators and anacondas and something even more terrifying: her own mortality.  

Happy trails!

Jeannie Ralston, CEO + Jeannie Edmunds, Chief Operating Officer

P.S. Save the dates: Find out details about our Fall trip to Asheville, NC on our free zoom session: Monday, July 8, 6:30PM ET/5:30PM CT/4:30PM MT/3:30PM PT. And check out our free zoom info session about Tuscany for the Holidays Monday, July 15, 6:30PM ET/5:30PM CT/4:30PM MT/3:30PM PT

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