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Pack Light for any Trip and Miss Nothing

One of the most popular requests I get is “How do you pack for so long with so little?” Much of it is a mindset which doesn’t really jive with today’s American consumerist lifestyle in the first place. That is the biggest hurdle to overcome in many of the things I talk about here. There [...]

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Chris Guillebeau’s Unconventional Book Tour Comes to Tampa

This weekend marked the 42nd stop on Chris Guillebeau’s Unconventional Book Tour in Tampa, Florida. I’ve mentioned this self-funded book tour before, and I hope any of you near the remaining stops are able to get to the event. It was well worth the wait. Several friends around the country told me it was worth [...]

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How I Freed Myself from the Office to Become Location Independent

photo credit: DDFic My journey to Location Independence began out of frustration. Frustration with how wasteful the business world ran, and how poorly most old-school businesses leveraged technology. There may have been a girl involved too. I’ll get to that later. Several jobs and self-employed businesses made up my work history. They always followed the [...]

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Nomadic Serendipity and the Space Shuttle Launch

photo credit: Matthew Simantov One of the many nice things about being based in central Florida is being so close to Kennedy Space Center. Even though I live on the other side of the state, it is only 100 miles or so to the East coast, and with clear skies, I can see the launch [...]

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Unplanned Working Vacations when Location Independent

Leaning back in the lounge chair writing, I found myself unconsciously humming along to the song playing somewhere in the atrium below. It may have been coming from one of the restaurants surrounding the fake walls of the reconstructed fort of St. Augustine below the balcony where I worked. The music in the huge air-conditioned [...]

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