I’d like to preface this post by saying I have never had a massage in my life; or at least not a real one.
For years I have heard about these fantastic Thai massages that you can get for dirt cheap prices all over the country.  Well as it turns out, all of the legends were true, as every where you look you see all sorts of massages advertised for less than the price of a Big Mac back home.
Well yesterday morning I found myself with some time to kill, and …

Well I am currently about halfway through Asiana flight 243 en route to Seoul, South Korea.  So far the trip has been fairly painless, aside from arriving in SFO about half an hour late due to a delay on the tarmac.
NOTE: Sorry I am a few days late in getting this posted!  Between jet lag, Ayuthaya ruins with Cody Mckibben, and lack of  wifi, I haven’t had the time to post!
I was really excited to see the difference between flying a domestic airline (such as my usual United) and one of the …

For the past few weeks I have been reading Chris Guillebeau’s annual review posts, and it has inspired me to do a bit of a personal review myself.  While I haven’t written a book, inspired thousands of people, or almost been kicked out of Saudi Arabia, I have been thinking a lot lately about how much has changed in 2009 and reflecting upon where I was a year ago.  If you have been reading Location 180 for awhile, you have a general sense of what I have been through, but …

Welcome to the 6th edition of the Digital Nomad Blog Carnival.  Each month writers submit their best articles about the lifestyle of a digital nomad, and the publisher for the month (in this case me) chooses the best of the best to display. If yours wasn’t chosen, the chances are it was a too far off topic to be included, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a great post!  Now on to this month’s selections:
Stacey over at The Smarter Wallet, submitted a great post entitled How to Work From Home …

I’m not sure when the realization actually hit me, but at some point in the last week, I couldn’t help but think to myself “holy crap, I’m actually moving to Thailand”. I don’t know if it was finalizing the visa, or getting my plane ticket purchased, but after over a year of trying to work towards a new lifestyle, it is finally happening.
How awesome is that? I can now write in peace knowing that I am not, in fact, a hypocrite. I don’t have to read travel blog after travel …

Well I did it.  I joined the legions of car-less Portlandians, who despite their predisposition to motorless travel, still shun umbrellas during the dreariest months of the year.
Sure, in the next 6 weeks I would have been trading in my car for a tuk tuk anyways, but it will certainly be a test for me to go this long with only my two feet for travel.
If you have been following my journey, you know that I have been talking about and advocating for selling your car for months.  The benefits …

Dear Reader,
After months of putting up with my vague posts, theoretical questions, and general whining, let me give you something concrete:
On January 5th, 2010 I will be moving to Bangkok, Thailand.

Thailand you say? Thailand.
Let me give you a little bit of background.  For the last year or so my buddy Ryan has been planning his round the world trip (same guy that wrote the Quit your Job, Move to Hawaii series here).  So for the last year, I have been thinking about joining him.  I really hadn’t made any sort …

So amidst my myriad of posts about unemployment and self-discovery, I have realized it has been quite a while since I have written a good old fashioned travel story.  Its time for a change of pace.
As many of you know, this past February I took a trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for carnival.  We danced in the parade, jumped off a 2,000 foot cliff and saw a futbol game in one of the most storied stadiums in the world.  I’d say we had a good time, but I think …

Have you ever caught yourself daydreaming?  Every once in awhile I certainly do, and today it happened to be about some of my dream trips.  Where would I go and what would I do if money wasn’t an issue.  This was brought on by a recent listing for a Thai villa on Koh Samui that I think would be AWESOME to stay at for a week.  While any of these may or may not actually happen I figured I would share with you some of my dream destinations that I …

This is a guest post from my good friend Ryan Martin.  He is the author of the very popular Location180 series “Quit your Job, Move to Hawaii”.  This will be his final post on his time in Hawaii, however you will probably be seeing more posts about his next adventure beginning early next year.
So it has been a few months since I have written for Sean. As a recap, I’ve been on Maui for almost 5 months now. I moved here with no job and no real expectations except to …