I Could Live Here: A Travel Memoir of Home and Belonging

Ellen Barone

May 2024 · Abhuta · Narrated by Ellen Barone

About this audiobook

Ellen Barone and her husband, Hank, are living a comfortable, creative life when they learn their rented house has sold. With no immediate solution, they hatch a plan to live in Mexico for the length of a visitor visa. They then move to Nicaragua. Then Ecuador ...

What ensues over the next decade of long-stay travel, as they migrate from one continent to the next across the Americas and Europe, is an uncertain yet fulfilling quest to discover their new home. Is it a long-term place they love, with the familiarity of accumulated belongings? Or is it being nomadic, future unknown but ever adapting and exploring?

I Could Live Here is an intrepid woman's open-hearted chronicle of change and adaptation—and the joys and discoveries that come with seeking one's place in the world and what it means to be home.

About the author

Ellen Barone is a writer and wanderer who traded a secure teaching career for a life of creativity and adventure in 1998. Traveling the world as an independent writer and photographer, she parlayed a handful of assignments into hundreds of adventures and co-founded the travel writing website YourLifeIsATrip.com. Since 2011, she's pursued a life of travel that allows her to settle in, dig beneath the surface, and get to know the people and stories behind a place. To learn more, visit EllenBarone.com.