We are two seasoned travellers and have experienced 48 countries so far. We live and travel abroad more than 5 months a year.
Norm
Norm spent most of his career in teaching and management in post-secondary education. Some of his responsibilities were initiating, participating in and managing international projects on behalf of the institution. He has had professional experience in:
Brazil Botswana China Denmark Germany Indonesia Nicaragua United Arab Emirates
In addition, he and Heather have spent time in many countries in South and Central America, Asia, Europe, the Mid-East, the Caribbean and Africa.
Norm is a qualified Teacher of English as a Second Language and a certified bartender.
We have also travelled extensively in Canada, the United States and Mexico.
Behind the scenes Norm has developed this website as well as a complementary site: https://www.heatherrath.net/ showcasing Heather’s writing projects.
Heather
She discovered her writing muse in elementary school after winning a city-wide writing contest. So when she grew up, Heather Rath worked as a journalist, editor of a weekly newspaper and a monthly business magazine before becoming head of communications for North America for a multi-national company.
She edited, and contributed to, two anthologies of Canadian southwest Ontario writers. Her award-winning writing has been published widely over the years in various publications. Heather just published STALKER, a book of her award winning short stories and a collection of their travel adventures. Stalker is available from Amazon. She is a member of CAA (Canadian Authors Association), CANSCAIP (Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators & Performers), and Crime Writers of Canada.
Heather is a qualified Teacher of English as a Second Language and a certified bartender.
Besides writing, her favourite pastimes are first, family, and then travel. She invites you to learn more at: https://www.heatherrath.net/
We have lived more than a month in a number of the 48 countries in which we visited . In those countries we travelled extensively. We lived part-time in Yucatan, Mexico for 9 years; also part-time in Thailand for 4 years, in Panama for 2 years and in Nicaragua for 2 years.
Canada is home although we lived for 5 years in the United States.