There is nothing intrinsically exciting about what I do to make a living – the big difference is the terms and conditions under which I do it. They are my terms and conditions, not someone else’s. . . . → Read More: My Office Goes 250 km/hr
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That will make next year a completely new experience for me. And that’s a big reason I’m so enamored with the technologies we have today that allow a person the flexibility to re-engineer his or her life so these exciting things are possible. . . . → Read More: A New Year That Really is New Our friend Linda, proprietor of the Coco Loco bar in San Pedro, Belize, did us the honor of creating one of her directional signs for us. It’s customary for her favored customers to be listed on a sign that points toward where they can normally be found. (Apart from at her bar!) A typical sign says “D.J. – Dallas, 1162 miles” or “Bill – 2 miles” . . . → Read More: Our Sign in Belize Feel Better in Five Minutes Nothing, not any medication nor any other emotion, has the ability to make us feel a sense of well being as fast as gratitude. Gratitude changes our internal focus from the negative to the positive – from what we lack to what we have. The simple act of thinking . . . → Read More: How Gratitude Creates a Better Life For You Are you a foreigner? A gypsy? A homosexual? A Jehovah’s Witness? An epileptic? A Jew? Do you disagree politically with the German government? If so you spend a month in one of the little cells in the basement. . . . → Read More: Gestapo Museum One of the challenges of perpetual travel is getting laundry done all over the world. Once you’re in a place for a few weeks or months it’s an easy routine. But when you’re in a town for a night or two you have to take your chances with whatever you can find. When you’re . . . → Read More: Laundry/Drug Money Everywhere Connie and I go we are aware of cultural differences. That’s one of the nice things about travel, seeing the way other people live and what they give priority to. I’ve never traveled in the Middle East and still have not except for a Gulf Air flight from Athens to Bahrain where we . . . → Read More: Middle East Air Safety If you’re going to live in a place like Belize you have to get used to the fact that things don’t always work. Today we had several power failures. No big deal, they happen on our little island every few weeks. Sometimes they last five minutes, sometimes hours. Today we had several failures and . . . → Read More: A Very Social Power Failure Often, the memorable things about traveling are things you wouldn’t want to repeat; the things that go wrong or nearly go wrong. San Pedro, Belize is on an island so to get here you either need to come by boat, using the water taxi, or by small airplane. After taking the bus ride from . . . → Read More: Any Chance We’re Flying Overweight? Luggage is the friction of travel. It’s the wind resistance, the drag, the thing that saps your energy and distracts you from the new glory that is all around you. . . . → Read More: Why to Travel Light |
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