Search results for: “gear”
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Make Her Chase You is Now a Paperback
I’ve finally finished making Make Her Chase You into a paperback. I’ve been selling it as an ebook for the past year and a half or so and refining it and adding to it. After one last edit I finally felt like it was good enough to be put into a permanent format. I also…
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The Dip, and How to Figure Out What to Do With Your Life
On the second day that I was visiting her in Toronto, Annie brought back a pile of books from the library. On the top was a tiny book with a cover so simple that it looked like it might be a children’s book about potty training. Then I read the subheader. “A little book that…
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Shortroping
I’m beginning to think that my speaking engagement at UK was partially a ploy to get me to come on an adventure with Luke, the guy who arranged it, and his friends. If that’s the case, I hope that I’m involved in many more ploys. My flight was diverted, delayed, rescheduled, and rerouted. In the…
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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…
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Things About America I Didn’t Know While I Lived There
We’ve lived in three countries now, which has given me some perspective on America that I didn’t have before. Sure, I’d been to a bunch of countries before (only 15 total!), but things are different when you live there. You learn how the city and the people in it tick. When I left I expected…
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Yakushima Island Part I
I’ve always hated anime. I never really gave it much of a chance as it combined two things that I didn’t care for: cartoons and words I couldn’t understand. One night I was at my friend Charlie’s house, hanging out in the living room. Someone in his family put on Hayao Miyazaki’s anime mastepiece, “Spirited…
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How To Pack Everything You Own in a 28L Bag
People keep asking for it and I keep meaning to do it, but then we always seem to be in a rush before leaving a country and we don’t have time to video me packing my bag. Japan was a little different, so we finally got it done. Unfortunately Todd’s real video camera is broken…
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Northern Japan
What a day. In an effort to totally avoid paying for hotels we have worked out an elaborate system of only taking night trains, where we can sleep as we travel. Today that landed us in Aomori, a small city in Northern Japan. After spending two hours researching things to do there, I had found…
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Biking in Tokyo
We finally bit the bullet and bought bikes. Not just any bikes, though, hilarious foldable ones. They fold up pretty small and are light enough to carry around. There’s a term here, “gaijin smash”, which is when a foreigner does something uncustomary or illegal but no one stops them because they’re all too polite here.…
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Six Awesome Things
I woke up this morning at 4:46am. I went to sleep at 11:30pm, so that’s approaching reasonable. As soon as I woke up I began thinking of how great some things are, so I got my laptop and now I’m in the dark writing about them. That’s inspirado. 1. Blankets. How cool is it that…
