Born in 1960, Gregory has been blessed to have traveled, studied, volunteered, and lived abroad for many extended periods of his life. By the age of four, Hubbs had lived in England for three years and already been around the world once in a VW bus, being driven by his fearless and perhaps naive guidebook-free parents through various civil wars in the Middle East while navigating deserts in Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iran, Iraq and Northern Africa following the trail of Alexander the Great and other explorers. By the age of ten he had visited much of Western and Eastern Europe – including several months in the Soviet Union – in yet another VW bus, this time being tossed into a French school for a year near Paris without knowing a word of the language. There he lived next to the first hippie commune in France, played with their rock band in Paris, cavorted with the Living Theater, and came to see and know more than a child his age should have.
Gregory attended a French high school in the south of France ultimately graduating (early) from an American High School. He was, however, lured back to Europe and spent many years backpacking with a Eurail pass.
In an ill-advised period of rebellion against a nomadic life with his parents and many years wandering the world solo and en famille, Gregory consulted in Information Technology, which allowed for extensive long-term travel and freedom but did little to quench the thirst for a mission not primarily involving making yet more money for those who do not need it. He is very pleased to work with experts in their respective fields as well as freelancers towards continuing the evolution of TransitionsAbroad.com as the premier no-nonsense Web portal and webzine for work, study, travel and living abroad.
Extremely proud to be the son of Dr. Clay Hubbs, the founding editor and publisher of Transitions Abroad Publishing, Inc. (founded 1977), Gregory Hubbs assumed the role of Web content editor in 2004 and the became Editor-in-Chief in 2008. Gregory wished to bring to a wider domestic and international audience his father’s years of pioneering work while ultimately extending the scope of the original mission.
He has judged three travel writing contests yearly since 2007.