• Please Help Me Find These Things

    Please Help Me Find These Things

    I am going crazy trying to find two very small pieces of gear that would make my life a whole lot easier. I can’t find any trace of them online, but I KNOW that they exist because I have had one of each at some point. The first one is an ingenious little chunk of…

  • A New Plan for Life Nomadic

    As our stack of plane tickets gets thinner and our passports get more and more inked up, we’ve started thinking about what we’re going to do next year. A repeat? Take some time off? Some combination? This sort of travel is self perpetuating. If I had ten places I really wanted to visit before leaving…

  • Why I Don’t Take Medicine

    Why I Don’t Take Medicine

    Why I Don’t Take Medicine I’m aware that admitting / proclaiming that I don’t take medicine sets me up to be bucketed in with the nutty religious people who handle snakes and let their kids die on rare occasions before allowing them to go to the hospital. That’s not me. My policy is to not…

  • Cambodia

    Cambodia

    When you’re on the road for this long you get good at rationing. In our case, that applies to batteries and to food. I just last week ate a vegan food bar that I bought in LA in the beginning of March. We don’t plan far ahead, so we never know exactly when we’ll be…

  • Rescue your Time

    Rescue your Time

    For the past three months I have been using Rescue Time, which is a really amazing tool to track your time usage. It runs in the background and logs every single thing you do on your computer. Then when you log in to the web dashboard you can categorize the sites and programs you use…

  • The Hovercraft

    The Hovercraft

    I had just stumbled across a site called www.hackaday.com, and I was fascinated. Most of the hacks were too nerdy for me to really be interested in, but one stuck out. “Build a Hovercraft for under $100” Yeah! As a kid I would always read the classifieds section of the Boy Scout magazine, and salivate…

  • The Vietnam Visas

    In a stunning display of forward thinking, we decided to go to the Vietnamese embassy to get visas. Ideally we would have gotten them for China as well, thus enabling us to take the train all the way through China to Hong Kong, but there wasn’t time for that. We went on Friday. It takes…

  • Beyond Productivity

    A few months ago I wrote about the power of persistence. I think that it was one of my better posts, and I think that adopting the habit of persistence and working hard is one of the most important habits I’ve picked up. Since January I have been tracking my productivity. Besides having a log…

  • Thailand, Take 2

    Thailand, Take 2

    Okay so I just wrote about half of a really long post about how awesome Thailand has been… and then it got deleted somehow. It’s a shame when things like that happen to computer geniuses like myself. So… from the top. Todd and I reconvened on the small island of Koh Phi Phi (where The…

  • My Old Home

    I was messing around with Google street view for the first time today, and look what I found. My old house! Link Parked behind it is my old car. Aww, the good old days. Back when I had things. I really do miss the RV, though. I loved that thing so much. When I go…