Tag: Travel

Due to somewhat bungled plans and a cheap flight available to Halifax, I randomly decided to go to the island for a week by myself. Even though the bones of the cabin were pretty much finished by the last time I left, it wasn’t fully bug or water proof, so I was eager to go…

I had intended to come back to the island once more before building the cabin, but the timing didn’t work out. I nervously climbed up the hill to check the spot that I had decided to build on. Was it as clear as I remembered it? I forgot to take pictures. At first it looked…

When I first bought my place in Vegas, I did it only because it was an incredible deal. As a frequent visitor to Vegas I assumed that I’d stay there once in a while, and AirBnb it out to recoup my costs. Or if it turned out that I really came to dislike Vegas after…

Now that I spend so much time in Budapest I get a lot of requests for things to do there. I’m not always the best at replying quickly, so I figured I’d write a blog post with an exhaustive list of all of my favorite places. If you’re not going to Budapest, you might think…

EDIT: The RV is sold, pending receipt of payment. If anything changes I will email everyone back and update this post, but I would assume it’s not available. The new buyer also has a tricked out Rialta and I will share a link to if he decides to sell it. I’ve kicked this decision down…

And just like that another year has passed! Every year of my life has been better than the last. I used to believe that this was a nearly universal experience, as every year you should become smarter, learn from your mistakes, build on your successes, deepen your relationships, etc. But I talked to some people…

And now it’s time for the one post per year about which people bug me for months: the 2017 gear post. I realized that a lot of non-subscribers read this post every year, so I thought I’d drop a little background for context. I’ve been more or less a nomad since 2008, and was one…

For the past few years I’ve been in a state of near-constant motion. I was in Budapest for five weeks straight last month, and that was by far the longest I’d been in one place in years. This lifestyle now feels totally normal to me, so I thought it might be interesting to share what…

Two days ago I closed on a property in Budapest (right where districts V, VI, and VII meet, if you know the area). It’s not just my property, though. I share it with eight of my best friends. It’s the latest piece of the puzzle in my recent quest to have home bases around the…

Guess what? I’ve got a new book out. I hate all the launching and promotion sort of stuff, and I’m not sure it actually helped my last book, so I’m going to do things the old-fashioned way and just quietly announce it here. A little over a year ago I wrote a story about visiting…