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10 Essentials for Beach Vagabonding (Travel Exceptionally Light for Months!)

When I backpacked South east Asia for 3-4 month stretches (in 2017 and 2019), I never traveled with more than my 48-liter Osprey Kestrel. I only sometimes carried a mid-sized…

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7 Must-Do’s in Sri Lanka

1. Sigiriya and Lion’s Rock A few hours bus or taxi ride from the capital to the east is the ancient cultural heritage site of Sigiriya. The road to the…

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How to Stretch a Budget to See (More of) the World

[Originally published in the Huffington Post] In a world of competing priorities, choices like wandering the globe or having a high-flying career seem pit against one-another. Can we proverbially “have…

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How to Maximize Time and See the World

[Originally published in the Huffington Post] Seeing the world can feel like an impossible feat, as it always seems that those who have time don’t have money, and those who…

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The power of #JFDIN [Just F$%#!* Do It Now]

How I got here Last week, while watching a Dan Gilbert TED Talk on why we make bad decisions, I heard a recurring theme: Human beings have a tendency to…

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How to travel the world on a shoestring budget

[Originally published in Expert Beacon] One of the biggest lies in traveling is that it requires a lot of money. Too often, people give up on the idea of making…

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