The tourist – Main goal is to have his trip look and sound great in hindsight and when sharing with others back home. Biggest fear is missing a must-see landmark that everyone else definitely saw. Wonders …
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I can think of three major teachable moments in my life.
The first was when a woman I loved left me.
I was alone in a thunderstorm in the woods of Transylvania. The storm had confined me to my 3' x 8' tent for the last twenty-five hours. The rain wasn't stopping and I was beginning to worry.
If books didn’t have the seemingly magical ability to influence the course of our lives I’d read a whole lot less. In my life I’ve been fortunate to have come across plenty of good books and quite a few great …
When I lived in San Diego, my friend Zach and I would occasionally ride to work together. We’d bike around Mission Bay on our way to a coffee shop near the beach and talk about life along the way.
The West Highland Way is a patchwork of ancient roads that was once traveled by rugged Scottish drovers, gun-toting redcoats, and nervous stagecoach drivers.
“Just one more…” I said, grinning as I reserved another night with Iryna, the friendly Ukrainian receptionist at Coffee Home Hostel in Liviv. She laughed. By the fifth or sixth night of my originally-planned two night stay we had …
I’m keeping a monthly record of exactly what it costs me to travel. It’s an extension of my personal monthly money management process. My hope is to remove the “it’s too expensive” excuse for somebody which would make me do my …
Traveling forces me to ask a lot of questions. A lot of times I feel dumb. Occasionally I get weird looks because I’m not speaking their language. Often people can’t help or shake their head and …
As I travel I’m publishing monthly expense audits along with some notes on what traveling at that cost looks like. . Below are my travel expenses for May. I started doing this last month. You can see …
