How getting laid off inspired one writer to travel the world

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Of the dozens of trips Geraldine DeRuiter has taken in the past five years, none have stuck with her like a visit to Naples in 2008

The views of the Tyrrhenian Sea were majestic, the Napolitan cuisine was the type you travel more than 5,000 miles for, and the densely packed, buzzing streets were unforgettable — but it was a call from back home in the middle of the trip that defined the journey for her.

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"I got an email from work that said I no longer had a job, and it turned out none of my friends did either," says DeRuiter, who was working as a copywriter for a gaming company in Seattle at the time. "It was really lonely. There were all these amazing people who I'd worked with and I wanted to be there and support them." Read more...

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