When you live on the road for months or even years at a time the whole Minimalism decision kind of gets taken out of your hands. Or perhaps, rather, it’s put directly in your hands because you can own as much as you can carry. You are Minimalist by default. It’s a lifestyle that makes…
Wherever I go, I try to spend at least one or two months there for reasons financial and cultural. Not only does it reduce travel expenses, but it allows you to really get to know a place. Another benefit to this slow travel pace is that you’re around long enough to join a gym for…
My apartment in Belgrade was irreversibly booked when I realized that I’d made a terrible mistake – the city’s castle was not within convenient running distance. You see, whenever I have the option, I prefer to live near a castle so I can run and occasionally perform other exercises within its grandeur. If this sounds…
When you live on the road, material considerations tend to take a backseat to experience. Why spend money on yet another goddamn gadget that you know you’ll just tire of and abandon in Lisbon or wherever? That money could have gone to airfare. The space in your bag freed for something you’d actually use. Or…
When you have a dedicated fitness regimen rolling along unobstructed, nothing can seem more disruptive than suddenly having to break routine for travel. Not only does it mean missing a workout or maybe even several, but travel often involves a lot of sitting and eating garbage road-food. I certainly understand how that goes. Up until…
When you’re traveling and you meet someone and speak to them for more than a few words, they almost inevitably ask you when you’re heading home, the unspoken understanding that “heading home” is a phrase burdened with luggage like work, cleaning house, and all the other mendacities of day to day living. The assumption being…