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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Welcome to Gringo-izing Brazil, my in-depth look at Carnival in Rio from the eyes of an American. This is part two in the series, in which we will set expectations for your arrival. You can check out part one here. Alright, so you are near the tail end of your 9+ hour flight. You are […]

This is the first in a six part series documenting my trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for Carnival in February 2009. In this series, an Americans guide to Carnival in Rio, we will cover everything from expectations, places to see, what to do/not to do, and hopefully share some of the more interesting stories […]