Being from Seattle, you can’t walk two blocks without stumbling across good coffee and good beer. Unfortunately, good beer can be hard to find in Colombia. It’s a little easier to find good coffee here (though still not that common, since it is mostly for export). Normally the beer here is of the cheap watered down variety. You know, Budweiser, Coors, Miller. …
Staying connected, organized, and productive can be a challenging task. Doing it on the road or while traveling is even more difficult. Since leaving the 9-to-5 in 2012, I’ve managed to uncover some great productivity tools and resources that have made my life on the road much easier. In this post, I will be covering my absolute must-use tools and …
The post below about climbing in China is written by my buddy Ryder Stroud of the Itinerant Climbers Collective, and author of the Wild West China Exploration Route Guide. He’s the one that put together those awesome videos of our climbs up Mount Stuart’s North Ridge and Mount Whitney’s East Buttress. His thick, western drawl made him hard to …
Here’s the deal: Time for another one of my monthly online income reports. I set the goal of earning $1,200 per month exclusively from my website and related projects by the end of the year. You might be wondering why I share this: These monthly income reports are meant to hold me accountable to both myself and my readers. They …
The truth is that I don’t like running all that much. I never have. I’ve gone for periods in the past where I get into running and then I fall out of the habit. Never doing any more than about 30 minutes of running. It’s always an obstacle lacing up my running shoes and getting out the door. Once I …
The city below us erupted into a series of concussive bangs and was exploding all around us. We perched on the 21st floor in a beautiful apartment in Panama City and the fireworks stretched from one end of the horizon to the other. The fizzling multi-colored explosions shimmered between towering skyscrapers and twinkled in the sky below. We clinked our …
One of nature’s most spectacular shows might just be aurora borealis, also known as the Northern Lights, a strange dance of green lights that glow overhead in the Arctic, and it just so happens that the Northern Lights in Fairbanks Alaska is one of the best places on earth to see them. If you’d like to see the Fairbanks Northern …
Leaving Morelia that Friday morning we were just a few hours away from driving in Mexico City. We needed to be in the big metropolis by that evening in order to meet up with our house sitting hosts. They were taking off the following day, but because of Mexico City’s “hoy no circula” program which has a complicated set of …