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Synopsis: We're going to tell you some things you probably don't yet know but should - - how second passports facilitate world travel, (even those obtained from smaller nations) how they increase your personal safety, and how they protect your privacy from snoops,  ...we're going to tell you when it's worthwhile to attain second and third nation residency visas and why...  we're going to tell you how offshore banking can protect your privacy, protect your money and allow you to travel with greater flexibility and freedom than those who use non-private banking... We're going to tell you a host of valuable travel tricks - - as self-aware independent travelers we've learned how to travel where we want and how we want, totally free from meaningless and unnecessary constraints - -  constraints that may serve the interests of politicians, snoops, and purloiners with vested interests, but which do nothing to serve your personal, intellectual, financial and psychological best interest.  When we travel, and we travel often, we travel using methods not written about in the Sunday travel section of your local newspaper.  It's not some sort of super secret insiders information we're talking about; and it certainly isn't illegal; it is just the type of information that doesn't serve the interests of those who want to control your life, so it hasn't been widely disseminated. Samples?   Travel to Cuba?  (It's absolutely terrific, we'll show you how to do it)  Can you bank in Cuba?  Keep a yacht there?  (The answer is yes on both counts...)  Are there any good reasons to bank in Cuba or to own a yacht there?  (We'll tell you about it.)  How you can travel to any destination you prefer to keep private; Thailand, say, yet convince a professional snoop or stalker that you're actually in Las Vegas (or wherever).  Is a Press Pass of value to a traveler, and if so why?  ...we could go on, but you could also subscribe, because now you've got a magazine that is going to pass this kind of information along to you and subscriptions are still free. - - EscapeArtist Travel - Travel In The 21st Century

A Travel Magazine with an attitude - Yes; we're adding a new magazine to our repertoire of resources; an EscapeArtist Magazine based on Travel In The 21st Century. 
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EscapeArtist Travel Magazine editor Robin Sparks Robin Sparks set a challenge for herself to travel the world looking for a country to call home.  She wanted to find the perfect spot to live, and so she set off to do exactly that.  For over five years she traveled around the world looking for that perfect spot and in doing so met and developed a network of friendships with hundreds, if not thousands of people.  She has built this international network of friendships within cultures like Bali, Belize, Nepal, and Brazil...  As part of her pursuit, she always interviews expatriates wherever she goes - - most often in far-flung places like Kathmandu, Bangkok and Salvador de Bahia.  Her interviews quite often result in friendships, (though there have been some exceptions) and out of these friendships she now communicates with expatriates around the world.  Yes, she has also looked for her 'home away from home' in staid places like Paris, London and Buenos Aires.... because she places no restrictions on destinations.... home is where the heart's on fire, and she remains totally open to the open road.... Shangri la is out there.  Resulting from the amazing number of contacts Robin has made, both through extracultural friendships as well as through her expatriate interviews, Robin has formed an expatriatriate/travelers network par ailleurs excellent (if you'll pardon the French) ...she's become an 'it's second nature' expert at travel - - and quite possibly the worlds foremost authority on expatriates lifestyles. As the new editor of our new Travel Magazine, it is Robin's intention to expand on her global network of interactive communication between cultures in order to make EscapeArtist Travel the kind of magazine that you can not only read for excitement and firsthand information, but also a magazine that you can, if you so wish, be part of.

New Sections?

Yes.  Three interrelated new sections are in the final phases of development and will be on our website very soon.  They're each related to travel, but they're also related to international relocation; those two pursuits are very closely related, are they not? You can't move overseas without traveling, and as long as you've got to travel to relocate you might as well turn it into an art form.  Traveling should be an art form, not a chore; but all too often, poorly planned travel ends up being a chore.  Let's remedy that.

The three new sections include a highly dynamic international vacation rentals section on our website; which is going to provide expanded and inclusive vacation rentals worldwide.  We designed this new vacation rentals section with what we feel are some nice touches not found elsewhere.  Also coming your way we've got an international house-swaps section that is going to dove-tail with our other international real estate resources.  We believe that swapping houses with others around the world gives you an excellent method of 'sampling' another nation before deciding to make a full commitment of permanent relocation; and it's a heck of a lot cheaper and much less complicated than renting.  Third on the list is a complete Travel/Vacation section, ...but with the EscapeArtist touch.  Travel with a point of view, a world view... and to go along with that, a monthly magazine that brings you travel resources with the worldview, travel as art form concepts in mind. 

The first issue of our new zine dedicated to travel is already under construction and set to launch in March/April 2006 - - the name, of course, is EscapeArtist Travel. 
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EscapeArtist Travel Magazine ? EscapeArtist Travel The travel magazine and website with a point of view; a world-view. EscapeArtist.com and EscapeArtist Travel is about more than travel; it's about personal exploration through world travel and international relocation.  EscapeArtist is for the independent thinker; the self-aware traveler passionately seeking an interactive cultural experience, meeting local people, examining cultural conditions and exploring unknown lands. Departments and service features will surround the adventurous travelers with every aspect of their obsession -- world music, living abroad in multiple nations, second nation residency visas, columns on travel photography, travel ethics, work vs. travel issues, historical journeys, travel health, travel-tech, and road gear. In creating this website we did so with an international perspective - - we've moved overseas, some of us from the USA, others from London, some of us from other nations: and now we live overseas; or to be more precise we live an international lifestyle picking and choosing our locational preferences. We travel the world gaining from each nation what each nation has to offer, we don't judge other nations based on the prescribed political view of any other nation - - we make our own judgments, we're independent people and independent thinkers.  We are what might be called international perspective sophisticates.... and we believe that you are too, or you wouldn't be here on this website seeking information on international relocation.

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Living in multiple nations and living an international lifestyle, free of meaningless government constraints is no longer just for the super-rich - traveling as a means of self-exploration is now the preference of a growing number of sophisticates thanks to the possibilities opened up by the technology of the 21st Century. Technology that allows us to free ourselves from political constraints and engage in cross border communications commerce on a global scale.  Not one of us really believes that reality ends at a line on a political map, or that any politician has our best interest at heart. 

21st Century Travel?  ...are we talking high-tech 21st Century technology? ...travel-tech?  Yes, but far more than that.  Our website emphasis is not on technology, but travel-tech is certainly something we should know about even when it's not our primary focus.  The technology of travel is really getting exciting, providing those in the know with abilities we could not have dreamed about a short few years ago.  So, yes, there is a need on our part to provide you with the latest travel-tech tips; but that is just one of our lesser intentions.

We're also going to tell you some things you probably don't yet know but should - - how second passports facilitate world travel, (even those obtained from smaller nations) how they increase your personal safety, and how they protect your privacy from snoops,  ...we're going to tell you when it's worthwhile to attain second and third nation residency visas and why...  we're going to tell you how offshore banking can protect your privacy, protect your money and allow you to travel with greater flexibility and freedom than those who use non-private banking...

We're going to tell you a host of valuable travel tricks - - as self-aware independent travelers we've learned how to travel where we want and how we want, totally free from meaningless and unnecessary constraints - -  constraints that may serve the interests of politicians, snoops, and purloiners with vested interests, but which do nothing to serve your personal, intellectual, financial and psychological best interest.  When we travel, and we travel often, we travel using methods not written about in the Sunday travel section of your local newspaper.  It's not some sort of super secret insiders information we're talking about; and it certainly isn't illegal; it is just the type of information that doesn't serve the interests of those who want to control your life, so it hasn't been widely disseminated.

Samples?  Can you bank in Cuba?  Keep a yacht there?  (The answer is yes on both counts...)  Are there any good reasons to bank in Cuba or to own a yacht there?  (We'll tell you about it.)  How you can travel to any destination you prefer to keep private; Thailand, say, yet convince a professional snoop or stalker that you're actually in Las Vegas (or wherever).  Is a Press Pass of value to a traveler, and if so why?  ...we could go on, but you could also subscribe, because now you've got a magazine that is going to pass this kind of information along to you and subscriptions are still free. 
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For eight years and eighty issues our extremely popular Escape From America Magazine has featured Unique Travel.  Our Unique Travel section has become as popular as our relocation and real estate sections; and for good reason.  In order to relocate to another nation we have to travel there first - Likewise, in order to buy real estate in another nation we usually have to travel there first.  It's clear that EscapeArtists are travelers, and not the sort of traveler that chooses the Holiday Inn in the Bahamas for a holiday get-away.  ...we know that you have a point of view that includes eco-travel, sports fishing, interactive culturalization, winter sports, water sports, back country exploration and everything in between.  Our so-called 'retirees' are sending us articles on sailing down the Amazon River and traveling by motorcycle through Patagonia....  You are nothing like the retirees of yesterday, you're a whole new breed.  You don't witness sporting events, you perform in them. 
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We haven't yet mentioned Architecture and food and both are also important.  We intend to do features that list unknown restaurants around the world - the kind of places that serve excellent food, but aren't listed in the guide books.  (I know a seafood restaurant in Florianopolis that serves seafood worth swimming the Atlantic for) As for architecture, whether that architecture consists of the Roman Ruins in Carthage, Tunisia, (where there is a large expatriate art colony) or the Deco architecture in Shanghai... we're going to provide photos, articles, resources and contacts....  and if seafood in Xcalak, Mexico doesn't tickle your fancy we'll have Paris Restaurant raconteur Adrian Leeds take you through the back streets of Paris and let you sample the fare at those superb but hard to find hidden restaurants in the City of Light.  Locations, menu, prices, including the first name of the Ma'tre de along with the the secret countersign for admittance.

Now you've got the magazine that will help you escape from the ordinary; EscapeArtist Travel; and yes, like our other two magazines, EscapeArtist Travel is free.
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We've got a track record, a history of enduring, and an ever-evolving number of resources. Websites come and go on the internet; many disappearing like ships in the Bermuda Triangle.  We've been online over a decade; somewhat of a record on the internet; and our traffic for the month of January 2006 when these words are being penned has once again had the highest traffic statistics of any month since our inception.  Each year our traffic goes up by over 20% - each month up to 4,000 new subscribers subscribe to our eZines.  Each month we send out issues of our eZines to over 350,000 subscribers. 

Our first eZine (based on international relocation) went online in 1998 and is now in its eighth year with almost eighty issues sent out. Our second eZine, based on international real estate and offshore investing was inaugurated in 2001 as a Quarterly and due to popular demand went to a monthly in May 2005. ...and now we're really feeling our steam.  Our new focus on travel does not mean any reduction of any of our former focus.  Living overseas, real estate overseas, overseas opportunities, international lifestyles, overseas jobs, offshore investing, all relate to international travel; we're just expanding our focus on the territory that already belongs to us. You're going to find bargains, hidden enclaves, bargain travel, bargain real estate, overseas beachfront that you can buy with your credit card, (we'll show you how to get an offshore credit card to put it on) and of course we'll show you how to build a house on your beachfront.  If after that you want to travel back into the tropical rainforest hunting for rare birds, or rappel down the side of a rock face, we'll also show you how to do that; how to make the contacts, find the right places, stay where it's worth staying and do so for half the price. 
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