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I was on a dark, hot, dusty bus on a bumpy road, shaking me up. Braying horns and headlights. It was an overnight bus for Dharamsala, which left about 45 minutes behind schedule so a bunch of Indians could argue and shuffle about the door for a while. Dharamsala is situated in Northern India, in …
It works on your mind: knowing you're not coming back for a long time. There is the country that you’re in, and the countries you’ve already been to, and all the countries you’re still going to visit. And then there is the trip itself. The journey. The adventure. It’s a cycle of showing up and …
Hey Friends, This week I had a chance to do a guest post for Meet, Plan, Go!, a community-based website that encourages and educates people on taking a career break for long-term travel. They do meet-ups, provide tips and advice from people who've done career breaks and offer resources for how to plan your own. …
So how is your streak going? If you missed it, last week I wrote about fitness and the dedication and hard work it requires. Then I offered a challenge to start an exercise streak. Start with four days in a row and then see how many weeks you can do that, then months. I’ve been …
It feels great. Being in really good shape. I haven’t been to a gym in over two years – since I starting using this fitness program in summer of 2011. Now I’ve been in San Diego for 22 weeks. I know that because we started the pull-up challenge the week I got here and we …
Things may have changed since this post was published. But great for posterity. *** Lindsay and I met in fall 2003, his first semester in college when he pledged Sigma Nu. It was my senior year. We had so much in common that we instantly became lifelong friends. There were more than a few late …
Between January 27 and December 27 last year I worked out close to 200 days. From December 27 until I moved to San Diego on February 5 I worked out about 10 days. As I reflected in a blog post recapping my trip around the world in 2012, fitness was probably my most significant accomplishment …
Today is February 20. I’m sitting in the studio. It’s a gloomy day. I moved here on February 5, just over six weeks after touchdown in the United States. I took down all the boxes from the rafters in my garage in Fresno, opened them up and went through everything I lived without for the …
Sitting here at my desk in Fresno, CA, I’m staying still for a moment and taking a deep breath. It’s been quite the ride since touching down in Miami on December 16. After two days in Miami I spent four days at Sigma Nu Fraternity Headquarters in Lexington, Virginia, my former place of employment. After …
Bocas del Toro I flew from from Lima to Panama City, Panama, landing at about 17:30, and walked around for about a half-hour with a sign reading “Share a Taxi to Albrook, / Compartir un Taxi a Albrook.” I didn’t find someone to share a taxi but did find a shared van into the city, …
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