Category: Life On The Road
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Yet Another Defender Camper Conversion: DIY 2-Berth 110 In A Weekend
Quick back-story: several years ago I was the lucky recipient of the Land Rover Bursary, an expedition grant administered by the Royal Geographical Society. As well as a generous pile of cash, JLR’s Special Vehicle Operations built us a bespoke expedition Land Rover Defender 110 called Georgina. Pretty neat, right? Land Rover Owner magazine thought…
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#FlightFree2020: About The Time I Travelled The World Flight-Free For 4 Years (And Nobody Cared)
My Flight Free 2020 pledge hasn’t come out of nowhere. Call it a rekindling of a long-forgotten conviction that the example I set might actually matter. Because we are all participants, now, in this huge and never-ending conversation we call global society. Our impact is measured in terms of the number of people paying attention…
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9 Reasons To Make Yerevan Your Next Digital Nomading Basecamp
Given the title of this article, you might be expecting to read a list post designed as clickbait for bored tech startup founders in co-working spaces in Chiang Mai, probably written by an underpaid copywriter who’s never been to Yerevan and has dashed off this piece after an hour or two of Googling. Not quite.…
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Behind The Scenes On 15 Years Of Location-Independent Digital Nomading
I first published this piece in 2016 as an evergreen article which I’ll update as, well, life goes on. The latest updates were made in March 2022. My location-independent journey as a digital nomad began before it had a name. It was 2007, I was 23, and I’d set off on a bicycle to explore the world. I sold everything I…