Archive | January, 2010
Digital Nomad Blog Carnival #7

Digital Nomad Blog Carnival #7

I’m this month’s host of DNBC, a traveling (from blog to blog) online carnival– a digest of the most recent month’s best posts for anyone who interested in the live-anywhere work-anywhere lifestyle (we call them digital nomads). Money I’ll start out this month’s edition with a piece I found on yahoo.com’s homepage this morning.  US [...]

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How to Fly Around the World Absolutely Free

How to Fly Around the World Absolutely Free

After all the recent news about the airlines, don’t you wish you didn’t have to fly at all?  Or at least you didn’t have to actually pay to be treated like cattle?  Me too. I recently signed up to be an affiliate on for Chris Guillebeau’s website, the Art of Non-Conformity.  I was digging around [...]

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Should You Adapt When You Travel?

Should You Adapt When You Travel?

Today’s guest post is by the amazing travel and food blogger Akila from The Road Forks.  If you haven’t read her before, now is the time to go bookmark her site. Five guidebooks, each covered with pictures of golden temples and vivid spices, gave me the same advice: when I go to Southeast Asia and [...]

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Connecting the Dots

Connecting the Dots

There was a time when the scariest thing I could think of doing was quitting my job and taking off overseas with just a laptop and a vague plan of becoming a writer. Now I’m maybe 6 weeks away (maybe more, depends on which due date you believe) from meeting this baby and changing everything [...]

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Security for Dummies: Why the New Airline Rules Won’t Work Either

Security for Dummies: Why the New Airline Rules Won’t Work Either

If you travel frequently, you already know that the US airline security screening doesn’t work.  As someone (I assume) who is not trying to blow up aircraft, hijack planes or otherwise really screw up your travel itinerary (it’s hard enough to make your connecting flight without a band of hostages slowing you down), you’d think [...]

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