Travel

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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How to Escape your 300-Mile Circle and See the World

photo credit: byJoeLodge The package wasn’t supposed to come for another few weeks. When I saw it was addressed to me, I knew it was finally here. Another piece of the puzzle. A brick removed from the wall blocking my path. My Passport arrived. I could now go anywhere on the planet without hiding in [...]

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Technomadic Adventures in High Gear for 2011

If you follow my updates on Twitter or Facebook, you may have seen me talking about a temp “job” I am taking in March. One of the greatest advantages of working from anywhere as a Digital Nomad is that when strangely rare but fun opportunities come up, you can jump on them more easily than [...]

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30-Plus Twitter Friends I met This Year Without Leaving Home

In 2010 part of my yearly review has been to take stock of my business issues and goals. But since I have become Location Independent, I like to look at all the places I went during the year, as well as people I’ve met, mostly through these online interactions. An informal poll told me that [...]

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Don’t Die Waiting for Retirement to Travel the Open Road

The purpose of this site is to show possibilities for alternative lifestyles. I have talked a bit before about how I left the typical corporate workforce to start traditional businesses, then transitioned that into a mobile lifestyle which allows me to work wherever I have an internet connection. One of the lifestyles that has always [...]

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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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“What Happened to Them?” Updates on 6 LiveCollarFree Stories

I wanted to give an update on some of the people previously featured on the site. Some of the things we’ve featured here have changed, and people ask me how some others are doing. While going through previous posts, I thought I’d update you on some of them here. Lemonade One of the stories we’ve [...]

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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 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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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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