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The Best Travel Coffee Maker: How to Make Great Coffee Anywhere
If you are a coffee addict, you might find yourself dreading that upcoming trip because you don’t know how you’re going to cope with stale or burnt coffee from the hotel lobby or corner diner. It’s a major dilemma, and one that many coffee loving traveler has struggled with, but thankfully you can avoid the whole problem with what I …
How to Get Started Travel Hacking for Fun and Profit
One of the pivotal moments in my journey to becoming the travel hacking vagabond that you all know and love, happened a few years back while working the desk job. And it’s all thanks to my start credit card hacking… My boss had just announced he was going to retire and that’d we would be losing our jobs at the …
How to Overland Central America: What to Know Before You Go
I had the pleasure of chatting with Jason Moore over at the Zero to Travel podcast about how to overland Central America, where we discussed our big road trip through every country in Central America, including touching base on what to know before you go, what to expect when you are on the road and so much more. I must …
Suffer Through a Cold Shower: Why We Should Cultivate Discomfort
Do you willingly embrace discomfort and do hard things simply for the sake of doing hard things? I think it’s a great habit to get into, or maybe that’s just the masochistic mountain climber in me talking. The past few days I’ve been taking cold showers every morning, and it’s been quite an exhilarating practice. Literally! I’ve written before about …
Learn to Play the Guitar: How I’m Teaching Myself Guitar from Home
Have you always wondered about how to learn to play guitar by yourself when you don’t have the money for private lessons? Well, thankfully there are tons of resources for teaching yourself guitar at home… When you were growing up did you ever dream about becoming a rock star? The lights flashing, the fans screaming, the music pounding you …
29 Best Productivity Tools to Free Your Time While You Travel the World
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 …
How to Start Running – Five Proven Tactics to Start and Stick with It
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 …