Tag: travel

  • How to Finance Your Adventure and Your Life

    Many young men die at age 25, but are not buried until they are 75 – Often attributed to Benjamin Franklin Ever Wonder How to Save Up for a Big Quest? Ever since I got back from the Appalachian Trail in 2022, I’ve been thinking about how to get back out there. After graduating college…

  • Why the Concept of Retirement is Wrong

    Why the Concept of Retirement is Wrong

    I was having a conversation with a friend recently and he made the point that our society was very smart to realize that at age 60-65 people retire because they are ready for a slower life (he is around this age himself). He is a very intelligent guy, with a PhD in chemical engineering, and…

  • Do You Actually Want all of Your Problems to be Solved?

    Do You Actually Want all of Your Problems to be Solved?

    My original idea for this post was to look 5-10 years ahead and talk about where I hoped to be and live in a happy, fantasy future for a few minutes, which often makes me feel good and hopeful about my current situation, but as I reread The Happiness of Pursuit by Chris Guillebeau, one…

  • Fuck the Joneses! Why would I want to keep up with them?

    Fuck the Joneses! Why would I want to keep up with them?

    The Joneses are broke, have debt over their heads, and are going to get divorced (statistically*), why would I want to be like them? Good question, I don’t. I don’t want to live in a suburb house with a payment so large I can barely afford it. I don’t need that new Ford Bronco or…