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Crocodile Love: A Tale of Volunteering and Travel Around the World

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March 12, 2016

By Jessie Voigts for We Said Go Travel

Imagine traveling for over a year on your honeymoon – exploring family history, traveling off the tourist trail, and making a difference by volunteering long term. How would that affect your new marriage? In Sutay and Josh Berman's case, everything.

Crocodile Love: Unusual People Who Made Remarkable Trips” target=”_blank”>Josh and his wife, RPCV and nurse ” target=”_blank”>Crocodile Love: Travel Tales from an Extended Honeymoon, shares those travels, and gives readers a glimpse into a different way of traveling – and starting a marriage.

Crocodile Love: Unusual People Who Made Remarkable Trips” target=”_blank”>American Jewish World Service, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing nonsectarian humanitarian assistance and emergency relief to disadvantaged people worldwide. They might not do high-altitude long distance treks, or take a bus down the Karakoram Highway. They might not cross rivers in several continents, touch a crocodile for love and fertility, help others, smile, dig deeply into a culture. Not many people would do those things, but maybe we should.

Crocodile Love: Unusual People Who Made Remarkable Trips. Josh Berman in
Ghana” target=”_blank”>peacecorps.gov. Crocodile Love: Unusual People Who Made Remarkable Trips” target=”_blank”>Colorado Camping, is a guidebook to nearly 500 campgrounds across the Centennial State, including four national parks, eight national monuments, and 42 state parks. The book is being released in April as part of Avalon Travel’s Moon Outdoors Travel Guides series. I’m also always writing my “Around Colorado” column in The Denver Post and exploring the Rocky Mountains with my family, one campground at a time. Join me at ” target=”_blank”>Transitions Abroad.

  Crocodile Love: Unusual People Who Made Remarkable Trips” target=”_blank”>Wandering Educators. All photos courtesy and copyright Joshua Berman

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