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Way Below Status Quo: Nomadic Entrepreneurs Road Trip

Entrepreneurs are now more able to do work from the road with today’s technologies than in any other time in history. The internet and mobile devices allow people to submit their work and run businesses from pretty much anywhere. While some people live on the road full time, it also makes for some fun extended [...]

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How to Minimize Your Life for Travel: Books

photo credit: Elsie esq.
The first batch of auctions for my book collection ended. The entire library is in stacks on the table in front of me. Books I’ve been carrying around for decades and read only once when new. Even the rare and autographed versions are going.
Books have always been important to me. A [...]

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Overcoming the 7 Obstacles to Traveling the World

Have you ever wanted to travel the world? Why haven’t you? What has stopped you? Some people do it seemingly with little more than a backpack and a smile. Others live the jet-set life in luxurious places most only know from Bond films. Everyone who wants to travel but hasn’t done so has one of [...]

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Vanabode: Home is Where the Van is Parked

The popular Chris Farley skit on Saturday Night Live had him play a “motivational speaker” who lived in a van down by the river. It was his way of telling his audience that they would become failures and also end up living in a van down by the river. Most people would probably be surprised [...]

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Simply Car-Free: Living Without a Car

I’ve said before on this site that LiveCollarFree.com is not exclusive to one “system” or style of Lifestyle Design. There are so many ways to live outside of the default life we learn we should fit into, and they all fascinate me.

Much of what I’ve done with my life has been to downsize. Toys [...]

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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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Career Outsourcing: Replaced by the Lowest Bidder

photo credit: Richo.Fan
It was August 20, 2009. Kristi Coyne was told she would be out of a job as of September 30. Her department of 130 employees would be let go: the county was farming out their mental health services to a private company. It’s a common story these days, but not one that [...]

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Adventure Photographer Trevor Clark – Part 2

In part one of our interview with Adventure Photographer Trevor Clark, we got to know a little bit about how he lives a location independent lifestyle on the road.
This second part will cover some of the tools, gadgets and equipment that make this life on the road possible.
From the obvious tools a photographer needs, to [...]

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Adventure Photographer Trevor Clark – Part 1

“What do you do?”
We all get asked that common social question. Rarely does one’s job title paint an complete picture of who that person is as a whole. A more accurate question for Trevor Clark would be, “what don’t you do?”
Trevor is one of those who does what many people only dream about or believe [...]

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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 [...]

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