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For those of you who were linked here, or who are new to my blog this year, every year I write a gear post which contains every single item I travel with. Despite being minimal, the set of gear is fully functional, allowing me to be comfortable and productive everywhere from the tropical beaches of…

Okay, okay, okay… I’ll write the gear post before the year’s over! One of the things that keeps me from writing all year is that it never really feels like the stuff in my pack has changed all that much. I switch one item at a time, never thinking I have much to write about.…

I was going to post something new today, but there are so many questions on the 2011 Gear Post that I figured it’s better to answer them in a separate post rather than the comments, since blog commenting systems suck. What happened to the Vibrams / huaraches? Vibrams are gone. They just smell too bad…

Now it’s time for the one post that everyone’s been waiting for. The 2010 Gear Post. For a quick background: my method is to have very few items, all of which are as small as possible and as awesome as possible. The goal is to have a tiny bag but be prepared for absolutely everything.…

(Note: if you haven’t read last year’s post, you may want to read it first, since this is only the gear that is different) During South by Southwest this year I was lucky enough to see the Kanye West show (thanks to my brother, Devon, and Colt Woody). Kanye had about a million different guests…

  One of the major advantages of having almost no possessions is that I can spend time to make sure that each thing I own really is the best possible product. I spend hours researching alternatives for just about everything major that I own, hoping to find something good enough to warrant the hassle and…

Last year I went on a lot of cruises which took me to remote places. As I always do when I travel, I wore my trusty Breitling Transocean Unitime. I bought the watch eight years ago because, at the time, it was the only mechanical watch that I could find that had all of the…

I can’t believe 2022 is over already. Like 2021 I didn’t feel as though as much changed in my life as has changed in many prior years, but this year I feel much less directionless than last year. CruiseSheet Prior to the pandemic my main productive outlet was CruiseSheet. No cruises sailed during covid, so…