Globetrotters Writer Spotlight — Audrey Stimson

I travel to fill in the pieces and connect the world.

Audrey off taking a ferry near Venice, Italy.

Hi Globetrotters. My name is… Audrey Stimson

I come from…I was born in Bonn, Germany, but I am an American. My father was working for the United States government and stationed in Germany. My mother was German, so I speak both German and English fluently.

I grew up hopscotching back and forth between the Washington DC area and Europe. I graduated High School from the American International School in Vienna, Austria.

After that I headed west to California. After four years at the University of California in Santa Barbara I graduated and let the travel bug take me back on the road again. I first moved to Boston for a couple of years, but I got restless. So I quit my desk job and I took a round-the-world trip in the late 1980s. I became a “digital nomad” before the concept was even a thing and before our current travelers were even born.

I have been to over 50 countries. It was my philosophy to see as much as possible before I hit 30 — which was a long time ago.

I also lived in Paris for about six years and one year in London.

I decided to make Los Angeles my base camp, where I live in a small green house with my husband and…