Toured Home is my compass for exploring the world. It’s meaning comes from a play on the words tour and toward which implies forward movement, combined with home, a sacred place in my heart where yet-to-be-discovered lands, people, cultures, foods, music and love reside.
I’m Meryl. I am touring the world for a year of my life on a solo journey to see, feel, smell, taste, hear….and be. I hope to be inspired, enlightened, and find new passions and paths to travel through this “life” that I am so lucky to have. This is my first blog and I plan to use it as a record of my thoughts and experiences as well as a forum to meet people who are friendly, who want to offer any guidance, travel tips, or connections.
A brief bio on me – I am a single mother to the two most beautiful children in the world. I say “children”, because by definition they will always be that to me, but they are both young adults now living on their own. This trip was actually my son’s brilliant idea. No sarcasm intended at all. Professionally, I am a successful, published interior designer with a background in tax accounting. Yes, left-brain/right-brain thing, and 8 years of college. I also like to write, and can imagine (as soooo many of you can relate to) writing a book, a fictional memoir type, based on this blog. I appreciate and welcome your comments on my posts as they will help me learn more about myself as a writer. I have always loved to travel, and have done some in my early twenties, but marriage, kids, career, pets, homes….well, you get it. I am now completely untethered and able to just go. So I’m going!!! I will enjoy Thanksgiving 2013 with my family and leave the next morning for South Africa. I have my Dave Matthews ticket for a concert Dec. 1 in Cape Town to start me off because there’s nothing better than music, and no one better than Dave. I am brave, confident, intelligent, happy, funny, passionate, interested, social, responsible, and hopeful. Hopeful about what the next year of my life will bring.
Hope you will join me!!
Toured Home 
I’m in! Let’s go!!!! can’t wait to travel with you, Sooooo!!! Awesome! Good luck. James
Thanks J!! But now you have to press “follow” so you stay with me!!
Yes!
Awesome! You must be so excited! Thanks for the invite, Meryl. I am looking forward to sharing your adventure through this blog. I can’t imagine the preparation you have gone through to arrive at this point.
I will stalk my inbox diligently looking forward to your updates. Can I meet you somewhere?
Of course you can, and I would love that! Either pick the time or place and lmk!!
When I first read about this, I thought maybe you were joking? You are a very brave woman in so many ways! I absolutely admire what you are doing! I know you will be fine. I have a feeling a guardian angel will be traveling with you!
This is amazing! I can’t believe you’re actually going. What an adventure.
Who is going to walk the dog?
Miss you terribly already. When all good back home, I’m all ready for a visit. It’s just gonna be a while. Wine all good though…
Have a safe trip Meryl 🙂
Was lovely having you stay with us at the Cape Cadogan, good luck and have an amazing time on the rest of your journey.
Looks forward to all your posts, especially when you get to Barcelona 🙂
Regards,
Amber
Hello Meryl was really a pleasure to meet you.
Sonia and I are reading your travel blogs around the world, and we find it beautiful.
We hope to see you again here in Florence for drinking a cup of coffee together and make a toast to life :-))