I Could Live Here By Ellen Barone

An unlikely wanderer

In 1998, I made a choice that would define the next quarter-century: I left my secure academic career to become a travel writer, armed with nothing but curiosity and a storyteller's instincts.

That leap of faith launched hundreds of journeys across six continents and a career built on transforming wanderlust into words. For fifteen years, I created travel and tourism content that inspired others to explore the world. In 2015, I expanded into marketing communications and content management, helping brands tell their own travel stories.

But in 2011, my husband Hank and I took our biggest adventure yet—what started as a one-year travel experiment became a decade-long nomadic lifestyle that redefined everything we thought we knew about home and belonging. That transformative journey became my 2023 memoir, I Could Live Here: A Travel Memoir of Home and Belonging.

Today, I continue to explore the intersection of place, story, and connection. I co-founded and publish the group travel blog YourLifeIsATrip.com, splitting my time between New Mexico and wherever curiosity leads—whether that's Peru, Portugal, or points unknown.

When I'm not discovering new places or crafting stories about them, you'll find me lost in a good book, seeking out local artisans and their stories, or simply daydreaming in a hammock about the next adventure.

I welcome collaborations, speaking engagements, and conversations about travel, storytelling, and the courage to redefine home—feel free to get in touch .

In 2009, I launched the group travel blog YourLifeIsATrip.com together with travel journalist Judith Fein on the belief that other travelers shared our desire to read about real people writing about real life. No top ten lists. No superficial content. Just authentic experiences. Today, we're the go-to website for experiential storytelling and narrative travel writing with hundreds of writers worldwide and each story as unique and original as the people behind them.