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Turning a profit with time.
If a business makes more than it spends, it’s profitable. If you trade time for money (any job) and make more money than time spent, it’s profitable. But that’s the problem. What does it mean to make more money than time spent? Time and money share no commonality to properly be compared. But truly how…
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Peaceful Air Travel: How to Avoid Crying Kids
We’ve all been there. Most of us have spent every single hour of our logged flight time there. We’ve all experienced the ups and downs of Economy Class airfare. We’ve flown Economy or Economy Plus (thanks for the legroom United!) for every flight but one that we’ve taken over the years. First class to Hawaii…
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SXSWi: When Austin Isn’t About The Music
Although this post is now, in some respects, old news we’ve been a bit traveled-out lately. After an action packed month and a half on the road we took a little time off from traveling and from posting on this site. So although I’ll be writing about events that happened more than a month ago…
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On African Safari: Attacked In San Antonio
[responsive_video] [/responsive_video] Round two of our crazy travel schedule came to a close last week. In the last month we’ve taken a Southern Caribbean cruise, we went to Austin for SXSWi and finally to San Antonio to visit with family. But before heading off to Orlando next week I thought I’d check in with a…
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Cruising With an Oceanview, Big Mistake
Now that our second cruise is in the books I’m compelled to report that we made a rookie mistake. We didn’t heed the past warnings of other cruisers and instead spotted a deal and went with it. Now we must forever suffer the consequences of booking an Oceanview Room.
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Why We’re Traveling So Much
We’re currently on our way to Austin, TX. Yes we were in Los Angeles in January. Yes we were just on a cruise of the Southern Caribbean last week. Yes we’re not only going to Austin, but also to San Antonio. And yes after returning home from Texas we’re heading right back out to Orlando,…
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Do Cruises Offer Enough Bang For Your Buck?
Although you’re reading this a few days later, as I write this we’re flying on American Airlines from ORD to SJU (San Juan, Puerto Rico). Shortly after touch down we’ll be boarding the Royal Caribbean Serenade of the Seas for a cruise in the Southern Caribbean. While we’re extremely excited to be going on this…
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Airbnb: Saving Money and Making Friends
I’ve been meaning to write this post since we returned from LA, and now that our next trip has been rapidly thrust upon us I feel the immediate need to actually get it done, otherwise if I don’t write it now it will just fade away into the past and never be shared. So it’s…
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Snowpocalypse 2011: Making the Most of It
[responsive_video] [/responsive_video] Here in Chicago we got quite a bit of snow today, around 20 inches or so. And although I’ve been told by my favorite Canadian that what we got was only some snow, it’s still a lot to us. Those Canadians…they can keep their snow, I prefer the beach. 🙂
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Travel Hacking: 30 Minutes to Free Airfare?
Today I’m excited to share with you something that I’ve been anticipating for quite some time. In the past I wrote briefly about how we were able to get United to foot the bill for our airfare to Los Angeles by earning frequent flyer miles while at home. The method I touched on was signing…
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Working From the Road: One Size Fits All?
While spending the last week in Los Angeles I believe I’ve figured out the secret formula to working on the road. Well actually it’s not a secret, and not really a formula at all, but I’m gonna call it that just because it sounds cool. The Secret Formula! Anyway it dawned on me during this…
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Cutting Travel Costs: Entertainment (in LA)
Initially I was planning on making this third and final cutting travel costs post about finding free entertainment on the road, but I realized that the entertainment that we’re partaking in on our trip is completely Los Angeles centric, but it also dawns on me that entertainment everywhere will be quite the same; location focused.
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Cutting Travel Costs: Budget Accommodations
This is the second part in the series about cutting travel costs. Last time I gave a brief rundown of how we got United to foot the bill for our round trip airfare to Los Angeles, this time I’ll share how we’re saving on our accommodations.
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Cutting Travel Costs: $0 Airfare
Our next trip is scheduled up. It’s just a short 8 days this time. In January we’re on our way to Los Angeles, CA. While our trip to Europe worked out to be quite a steal, we’re getting a bit creative this time around and it turns out we’ll be able to save a good…
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Haggling Our Way to a Prada Bag
I take every Thursday to share a brief story from the road. No message, no lesson, no direction in particular, just a fun little anecdote about our travels. Today’s story comes from the streets of Rome where Marla haggled her way to her very own “Prada” bag.
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Tour Guide or Not Tour Guide, That’s the Question
If there’s one quote that you should keep in the back of your mind whenever you travel, it’s this. “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.”G.K. Chesterton According to Chesterton, a tourist is someone who’s goal is to check items off of a bucket list instead of…
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Da Bears: How to be a Diehard Fan in Europe
I take every Thursday (but if you’re reading this in your email it’s already Friday) to share a brief story from the road. No message, no lesson, no direction in particular, just a fun little anecdote about our travels. Today’s story is about what it took to catch the Bears games while we were in…
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Working on the Road: A 22 Day Experiment
Spending 22 days working on the road proved to have unexpected challenges, but also great benefits. It’s time to weigh in on the results of the 22 day experiment in location independence.
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Charged: Attendants on the Overnight Train
This is a new thing I’m starting on the site. Typically I try to write in a way so there’s something that you can learn from our experiences, but starting today (and every Thursday) I’ll be sharing a brief story from the road. No message, no lesson, no direction in particular, just a fun little…
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Everyday Adventures: Exploring Home
[responsive_video] [/responsive_video] I started this blog to share and document the things that we learn in our travels, and there’s still much to share about Europe that we’ll write and post in the coming weeks. But beyond travel alone I think there’s things to share simply about living life to the fullest and this is…