Back from Hiatus

If traveling is getting a taste of the unfamiliar, the 9 to 5 grind is drowning in the ordinary. The focal point of the last year was to do the whole get rich slow in big tech thing and I fell victim to the monotony of it all. I felt that because I wasn’t gallivanting […]

The Completely Satisfying Weekend

Part of the problem with looking forward to taking extended time off to travel is that it’s easy to lose track of what’s going on in the present. How is my quality of life? Am I eating properly? Am I getting shit done? Am I taking care of myself? I find that it’s easy to […]

The Nine Month Update

This is the all important almost-a-full-year-but-not-quite-yet update. To recap, I spent all of 2017 traveling before getting a job and settling in Austin, Texas. I’m a salary man again. My ultimate goal is to build financial independence and in turn maximize my freedom while getting the most I can out of life. The worst case […]

Question Asked. Question Answered.

This is a random picture that I shot while in France. It has nothing to do with this entry but it felt weird to have a post without a picture. Anyway, I got this question from a friendly internet stranger and I did my best to address it. Hey man, I messaged you a while […]

Grinding

I know a few people that would argue with me, but the hardest part of any RPG is grinding. You go off into a dungeon and you repetitively stomp out low level creeps until you are strong steamroll through the boss. I don’t like grinding but I understand it to be an integral part of […]

My Bike

In the early Spring of 2015 after having lived in Seoul for just half a year I had purchased a small displacement motorcycle, a Yamaha YB-1. It was shipped over the narrow sea from its native Japan and somehow made its way into the Korean used bike market. When I saw it on display in […]

Living in Austin Without a Car. A Fools Game or a Smart Choice?

Below is my multi-pronged argument on why I never want to own a car again. It was born out of years of frustrating and PTSD inducing trauma on the roads of Boston, Massachusetts where every single day was book-ended by a layer of stress from my daily commute on I-90. I will never ever be […]