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Today’s guest post is by Amar from GapYearEscape.com. While I wouldn’t advise starting a travel blog just to get free stuff, if you’re already blogging, there isn’t any reason why you can’t make it work for you (and no, it’s not just for the “big” blogs). Increasingly, there’s a lot of bloggers subsidizing their travel… [...]

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 [...]

I was in Belize, a paid trip by the Belize board of Tourism and I’m slurping down ceviche and broiled lobster and wondering about ethics. You see the point that became clear for me, in a way that only $200/night hotel rooms and free samples of Aveda shampoo can crystallize—is that there are no writers [...]

I’m writing a new column.  It’s about being a Digital Nomad, and I couldn’t be more excited. Since I gave up corporate life for the live-anywhere, work-from-the-beach, sunblock-as-work-uniform lifestyle, I’ve been bitten by the bug.  When you find something you love, you just want to tell everyone about it.  Now, a new magazine has given [...]

When I read Pico Iyer’s The Joy of Less on the NY Times, I loved it and quickly passed it on to anyone I could. The general theme of the piece is this: Though I knew that poverty certainly didn’t buy happiness, I wasn’t convinced that money did either. He talks about the process as [...]

I don’t normally talk politics on here, but this subject fascinates me, so bear with me. A bi-partisan bill was introduced into the House and Senate earlier this year, that would lift the 50 year ban on travel to Cuba.  Today the sponsoring senators reported that Congress is ready.  In political-speak this means they’ve talked [...]

You go to Mal Pais for the surfing.  A single dirt road runs along the stretch of ocean, dotted with surf shops, outdoor restaurants and a single grocery store.  There are iguanas and beach dogs, squirrel and howler monkeys and the bananas cost 10 cents each.  But you’re not here for that, you’re here for [...]

If you go to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico it’s much more developed then nearly any coastal town in Costa Rica. Yet, before visiting Jacó, everyone warned me: it’s overdeveloped. Well, if you’re expecting palm frond beach huts and locals catching fish in the low tide, then yes, you’ll be highly disappointed. But since my time in [...]

I left Puerto Viejo on the rainiest day so far, the back of my pants covered in mud from the 20 minute walk to the bus terminal.  By ‘terminal’ I mean two benches next to a food stand that sold patties–delicious savory pastries with a spicy filling.  I was drenched, but ate two patties before [...]

I crossed the border from Panama and found myself in the beach town of Puerto Viejo, on the southern Caribbean coast of Costa Rica.  The shuttle dropped me off at Rocking J’s, a sprawling hippie-surfer-backpacker compound that offers $5/night hammocks and $7/tents (private rooms started at $20). The walls are covered in a collage of [...]