Geraldine DeRuiter, The Everywhereist blog

In this episode I talk to Geraldine DeRuiter, writer of the very popular blog The Everywhereist.

I met Geraldine and her husband Rand when they were in Australia to speak at ProBlogger Event a couple of years ago. When I decided to start this new podcast, she was one of the first people I thought of as a potential guest. We recorded this interview when I was in Seattle in April.

Geraldine started blogging after she was laid off from her job back in 2009. While her blog is essentially a travel blog, she also describes it as “a love letter to my husband”. Her first book is currently in the “edit” phase.

Geraldine DeRuiter The Everywhereist

A few days before we met, North Carolina announced its anti-LGBT laws – something I am still incredulous about. We were chatting about this when I hit record, so our conversation starts partway into this conversation.

You can find Geraldine at The Everywhereist.

You can connect with Geraldine on twitter and Facebook.

You can listen to this episode via the link above, on iTunes or Stitcher or via the podcast app on your smartphone.

What we discussed:

Making a decision on where to go based on law and do you boycott or not?
Starting The Everywhereist, and where the name came from
Becoming a full time blogger
Podcasting vs blogging
Meeting your significant other online
Writing online about our husbands
Dealing with criticism for what you say online – and remembering it’s usually not you, it’s them
That paleo post
Coastal Kitchen (in Seattle)
Trying to eat carb free in the US
Making the most of every meal in life
The need to continually eat when you change time zones
Making the deliberate decision not to monetize her blog and staying true to yourself
Blog – Not without salt
Being “functionally unemployed”
Selling the manuscript for her first book and feeling that she can now call herself a writer
The challenge of finding an agent
Having an accountability friend who has cancer
Chad’s blog – The Brain Chancery
Being diagnosed with a brain tumor and having brain surgery
If something seems wrong with your body, get it checked out
Being scared of pigeons
Watching for falling coconuts in Australia
Being lucky to be born how we are
Shelf stable bacon (WTF?)
Ashland, Oregon
Fitbits
Celebrating little wins