As we reached the 2013 new year, I was reflecting on what I learned in 2012. I feel like I learned a lot this year– particularly a lot about myself and what I am looking for as I traveled around South America (and am now back in Colombia). When 2012 started, I was thinking it [...]
I really could just end the post right now because you probably already know where I’m going with this. But let me tell you about how a certain kind of complaining helped me out. I arrived to Córdoba, Argentina after an all night bus ride and was met with temperatures exceeding 100° F (38° C). [...]
The other day I was struggling through a project I am working on. It seemed to be going nowhere, and I seemed to be plodding along at an extremely slow pace, only accomplishing very small things. Now, this is a project for me, not something someone else is requiring me to do. But it seemed [...]
I wrote on my ‘about’ page that I am really against poverty and slavery of all kinds, especially poverty in terms of mindset and perspective. One of the mindsets I really feel people have to get rid of is the idea that they have to be a cog in some large corporation or institution from [...]
Geo-arbitrage is the idea that you can earn money in one part of the world and spend it in another. If you do this, often you will find that your dollars (or pounds / euros / francs / krone) go further, and you can afford a higher standard of living, partially due to exchange rates. [...]
A big key to saving money, for the purpose of traveling or for starting a business, is to reduce your expenses. Many people have the idea that travel is expensive. And it is, somewhat… but only because you are removed from your normal ways of making money (i.e. job). If you could make money wherever [...]
Sometimes people wonder how they can afford to travel around the world. Part of it is geo-arbitrage, the reality that many places in the world are significantly cheaper than the modern nations of the West. I’ve written about my monthly costs in Colombia and Ecuador. Now, my costs are not as low as they could [...]
The other day I came across this scholarship for anyone interested in becoming a travel writer. It’s a fully sponsored gig to tour around Southeast Asia, including Singapore, updating travel guides. Airfare included. Sounds like my cup of tea. I was keen on applying… I don’t know about you, but anytime my airfare is paid [...]
When you travel for a long period of time what happens to your relationships? This is the question I was considering the other day as a few buddies and I were enjoying a round of rum and coke at a local bar in Medellin. I didn’t consider the question aloud, as we were discussing some [...]
The past month I found myself doing something odd: taking cold showers. Why? Well, the short answer is that I had been reading a bunch of articles and a few chapters on the benefits of taking a cold shower (and, sometimes applying ice packs to the back of the neck for body optimization purposes). I [...]
