Authors & World travelers

Gabrielle (Gabi) and Frank (Skip) Yetter are former Marblehead residents, authors and lovers of food, travel, and disparate cultures. After quitting their jobs and selling or giving away their property and possessions in 2010, Gabi and Skip accepted volunteer positions in Cambodia, working with Volunteers in Asia to support two separate non-governmental organizations in the Kingdom's capital of Phnom Penh. While living in Cambodia, the couple traveled extensively throughout Southeast Asia and wrote about their experiences in their blog, The Meanderthals.

In 2013, they joined a house sitting network that over five years took them from Europe to Panama, New Zealand to Melrose, Mass., and 34 other destinations around the world. In 2019, they unpacked their suitcases and settled in East Sussex, UK, to be close to Gabi's elderly mother and watch the sunrise over the English Channel from their seaside flat in Eastbourne.

Gabi is a former journalist who was raised in Bahrain, worked in South Africa, and moved to the US, where she and Skip met. She is author of  a travel guide (The Definitive Guide to Moving to Southeast Asia: Cambodia, 2013); a cookbook on Cambodian desserts (The Sweet Tastes of Cambodia, 2012), two children's books (Ogden, the Fish Who Couldn't Swim Straight, 2016, and Martha the Blue Sheep, 2017), and recently published her debut novel, Whisper of the Lotus. She is working on a sequel to Whisper of the Lotus.

Skip is former editor of the Marblehead Reporter, publisher of Bay State Community Newspapers, and Senior Vice President/Global Sales of Business Wire, A Berkshire Hathaway Company. He is the author of two novels, (Rilertown (2016) and A Reasonably Viable Marriage (2019)), a cookbook (KISS Kooking: Simple Cooking for Simple Kitchens (and Simple Minds) (2015)), and, with Gabi, co-authored a personal experience/how-to guide on their chosen lifestyle, Just Go: Leave the Treadmill for a World of Adventure (2015). He is working on his third novel.

As England begins to ease its third lockdown, the couple remain active by volunteering through the National Health Service and at a local food bank in East Sussex, and maintaining in close contact via video conferencing with Skip's two daughters, Emily, in Los Angeles, and Kirsty, in Beverly with her three sons, Lasky, 6, Tal, 3 and Ollie, 1.