travel

Gather Your Troops

March 2, 2011

I hate asking for help. I usually pride myself on autonomy and self-reliance. And, I’ve recently been reminded how extremely limiting that can be. “Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.” (Helen Keller) For a while now, I have been planning a project titled Amaloboozi. I will be traveling to [...]

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17 Location Independent Entrepreneurs Define “Home”

February 2, 2011

To some, house equals home. But an ever-growing number of determined entrepreneurs disagree, and have been using creativity, hard work and today’s technologies to break free of the chains that hold most of us in one specific place, developing flexible, “location independent” careers for themselves. In my own ongoing quest to travel more and more, [...]

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Guaranteed Flight Every Three Months!

January 25, 2011

Anyone who checks in here once in a while has probably heard me mention fellow-Oregonian, Chris Guillebeau. Author of The Art of Non-Conformity (which went straight to #8 on Amazon’s Bestsellers List after its release last September), and coordinator of the upcoming World Domination Summit (in Portland- June 2011), Chris is inspiring to me as [...]

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The 2011 ImpossibList

January 19, 2011

I’m a bit late in posting this year’s resolutions (and I know some people disagree about whether or not they should even be written in the first place). But I, for one, operate well and efficiently when I have clearly defined goals in place. After a bit of a slump near the end of last [...]

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Havana & the Universal Language of Music

January 12, 2011

“Hmm,” I think to myself, “there’s a live band in here; this seems like the place to stop.” I’ve only been on the island a couple of hours, but it’s time to catch some music, maybe a Cuban sandwich and that Mojito that I promised my buddy John I’d try down here. Apparently the band [...]

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A Year In The Life (2010 Review)

December 29, 2010

Whew . . . what a year! (Click on links throughout for more details) At the suggestion of several friends and musical/traveling cohorts, and without knowing the slightest bit about what I was doing, I ran my first ever post on January 1st of this year. BAM! Here’s your merit badge. You are now officially [...]

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Text Message Inspiration

October 27, 2010

I received the following text message this past weekend from a close friend, while she was off traveling across country. I instantly identified with her words and promised to save them, so that she could later read them when they were needed. They spoke to me because I share her feeling of clarity and inspiration [...]

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Want To Travel? Do It NOW.

October 20, 2010

We didn’t travel much when I was a kid. Maybe to Indiana a time or two to see the grandparents. But no Disneyland, no Grand Canyon and definitely no trips out of the country. My first time off of US soil was exactly seven years ago, when I got this hairbrained idea to go study [...]

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4+ Jerks, 1 Lesson

September 29, 2010

Bikers, travelers, and musicians . . . oh my! All about the analogies today, let me explain four ways that I’ve learned the same lesson. And we begin with a story . . . (1) I’m driving down Powell Boulevard in Portland yesterday morning when a motorcyclist (let’s call him Biker 1) blazes past me, [...]

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Es Un Viaje!

August 11, 2010

Let me start with a short demography lesson. Then a somewhat lengthy story before wrapping things up with the reason for this whole post, and a quick question for you. The Lesson: My 2nd edition Puerto Rico Lonely Planet guidebook says that La Perla, “is not a place to wander into.” Squashed into a small [...]

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