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If It’s Too Good To Be True…
If there’s one popular cliché that is dangerous to believe, it’s this one. “If it’s too good to be true, it probably is.” Actually, I can even live with that phrase literally. But most people take it to say “If it’s too good to be true then it DEFINITELY is.” That’s dangerous because it programs…
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Back Home
Life Nomadic is far from over, but today I’m in the US, back in Austin. We’ve been away from Austin for seven months and have circled the globe entirely. We’re already planning more trips, but armed with experience, we don’t plan on being on the road for such long stretches in the future. For me…
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The Zero Cost Lifestyle
Several years ago I was sitting with a bunch of friends at a restaurant. Dinner was winding down and we were all stuffed. My friend next to me asked me how I made so much money. I always had the money for everything, she said, and she was always struggling. The bill came and everyone…
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Crazy Travel Schedule
We’re now in France, which means that in the past two weeks we’ve been in seven different countries (Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Macau, Hong Kong, Qatar, and France). That’s a lot. We left Taiwan in early June, and that was really the last time we were properly settled. This style of travel is pretty exciting. We…
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Smuggling from the Catacombs
The police lined us up in the pitch black tunnel. Their headlamps flicked around as they gave their orders in French. We were getting searched. They went up the line searching my friends. First they were patted down, and then their bags were sifted through. Nothing to worry about, as they had nothing to hide.…
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Hong Kong Hospitality
Man do we have a lot of catching up to do. This rapid fire traveling schedule doesn’t leave us with all that much time to contemplate and write. If we aren’t checking in somewhere, we’re checking out and trying to catch a plane. We were worried about where we’d stay in Hong Kong. It’s a…
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Why I Don’t Use a Mac
Someone recently commented that he was surprised I don’t use a Macintosh computer. Macs are the cool things to get these days and i can understand why he would assume I’d want to use one. At the same time, I take immense pleasure in researching and buying the best things in the world, so I’ll…
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Sleeping in Pamplona
Todd’s experience running with the bulls was a lot better than mine, so I’m going to let him dazzle you with that story. The tradition in Pamplona is to sleep in the park, and then run with the bulls the next day. This is a convenient tradition because we didn’t want to pay for hotels…
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How I Chose Which RV to Buy
One post that people request occasionally is a post about how I go about finding the best of something to buy. It’s a bit of an obsession for me, as you may know. I’ll write that post some day, but right now I’m on an airplane so I don’t have the necessary internet to get…
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How I Feel About Pot
I’ve never smoked pot, or even a cigarette. I think it’s a stupid thing to do, and I think less of people who do it. I know people will probably start arguing about that in the comments, and that’s fine. At the same time, I think that governments banning marijuana is beyond stupid. Let’s be…
