There aren’t many of us who couldn’t use a little extra cash here and there. Maybe you want to hop over to Fiji and need a plane ticket. Maybe your computer got stolen and you need a new Macbook. Well the good news is, there are a wide variety of things you can do to […]
8 Reasons to Become a Blogger
As I was helping my dad re-roof his house this past weekend, it made me realize how happy I was to NOT do manual labor for a living. When I woke up this morning I could barely move. Muscles I didn’t even know I had ached. I realized that the sunscreen I applied, really […]
An American's Guide to Carnival in Rio: The Carnival Celebration
This is part 4 of 6 in my series “Gringoizing Brazil: An American’s Guide to Carnival in Rio. Check out the first three posts Before you Leave, What to Expect When you Land, and The Carnival Parade. So you have successfully made it to Carnival.You have donned an extravagent costume. You have danced in the […]
How Important is Money?
In the comment string of Accountability and a Comfortable life, a reader challenged my statement that “it all boils down to finances” when it comes to my quest to travel and become location independent. I have thought about this a lot over the last couple days and it begs the question: how important is […]
Accountability and a Comfortable Life
Has your life become too comfortable?It is so easy to get sucked into the daily routine of life, waiting for that yearly raise (which won’t come for many this year), saving up for your two weeks of vacation, and watching TV on the couch most nights of the week.Millions of people live this life, and […]
Sail the World–For free!
Have you ever wanted to learn how to sail? Experience exotic destinations? Embark on an adventure? We all have at some point or another. Well I would like to tell you about a website that enables these things. Findacrew.net is a website that is designed to match up sailors (you) looking for a boat to […]
My Quest to Play Golf at Augusta National
Typically on Wednesdays I post my “Happy Hour of the Week”. Due to all the new readers that have checked out the site over the last couple days I thought I would postpone my Happy Hour post until Thursday and write about something a little more interesting. — #27: Golf at Augusta National Golf Club […]
Backpacking Through Europe – Without the Backpack…
Every once in a while something happens in your life that completely throws off everything you know to be true. Before I left for Europe after my college graduation, I absolutely knew that I had to have 35 pounds worth of crap to make it across the European countryside (oh to be a first time […]
Create Your Own College Education
Bartleby: You could spend eighty thousand dollars or I could make eighty thousand dollars. Dad: So you’re saying you don’t want to go to college? Bartleby: No, I am saying it would be fiscally irresponsible for me to go to college. This is a quote from the movie Accepted, in which a high school graduate […]
An American’s Guide to Carnival: The Parade
This is part 3 of 6 in Gringo-izing Brazil: An American’s Guide to Carnival. In this post, we will talk about the Carnival parade itself. One of the biggest draws of Carnival in Rio is obviously the parade. There are two ways to go about experiencing this. The first of which is to watch the […]