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The trip to Puerto Rico has been a blast.  Every time I travel I get into this mindset where I feel like I can live on essentially nothing, navigate the globe and be completely content.  I am at home on the road.  My white picket fence and two cars is a frame pack and a notebook to record the journey.  I have come to the conclusion that I would rather burn out then fade away.  If at 60 I am broke and have seen the world, I will be content.

Of course the major stumbling block to my constant wandering is money, which is just such an arbitrary and bullshit physical expression of what exactly?  Most people slave for cash their entire lives.  To what end?   So you can go to a 5-star resort on your next six day vacation?  To retire and sit in a house on the beach in Florida and wait for death to slowly claim your boring life?  Fuck that.  You live once.  You will never be 18 or 28 or 54 again.  LIVE!!!

All my friends ask, “How do you travel all the time?”  It is easy.  I have made a conscious decision to own very little.  I spend money on experiences.  I would rather experience Puerto Rico for example, than watch it on a Discovery Channel special on my 50” LCD television.  And the way I travel I could go for a month on what it takes to buy one of those things.  I planned this entire nine day trip, including rental car, for $625/person.  Want me to hook you up?  Haha.  Perhaps I should open a travel agency.

Screw the desk jobs and the resorts and the LCD TV’s.  You don't need them and if you want out badly enough you'll figure it out.  It can be so amazing out here.  There is so much to see and do.

I hope one day you are inspired to wander, which is far different than vacationing, and perhaps we will see each other.

Peace.

-The Wanderboy