While I am the first person to admit that I am far from an experienced traveler, I have been to more places than many.  As I am currently looking forward to all of the places that I would like to go, I couldn’t help but look back at some of my favorite places that I have already been.  Covering the spectrum from wild and rowdy, to relaxed and subdued, here is the list of my top five favorite travel destinations.
#5: Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas is a city …

Recently I have found myself slightly overwhelmed. This is the first time in my life where I have been unsure of what is next. All through grade school and high school, I always knew what was coming. After eighth grade, comes ninth. I had known since I was 12 which college I would be attending. Six months before graduation, I had a job fall in my lap. Everything has always been easy. I have never had to make much in the way of life changing decisions.
Fast forward to now. I …

This is a guest post from J. D. Bentley.  He is an online entrepreneur and the founder of Wage Slave Rebel – a blog for aspiring freelancers, bloggers, entrepreneurs and lifestyle designers. Follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/jdbentley or www.twitter.com/wsrebel.
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On the night of September 12th 2007 I sat tucked away in an isolated office in the basement of an abandoned building and waited for the clock. I had been sent to the hospital’s East Campus — a building that formerly housed the mentally unstable but now contained marketers and designers …

This past Sunday I found myself laying in Washington Park and letting my mind wander to wherever it felt compelled to go.  Lately, this seems to be happening on a much more frequent basis.  On the golf course, I would imagine there was a crystal clear ocean just beyond the tree line.  While writing this article from the garden of my office building, I was imagining I was in a cosmopolitan oasis in the South of France far away from the 100 degree weather we have been experiencing in Portland. …

In my first carnival of blogs I wrote about some of the sites and posts that have inspired me to continue down the path that I am currently on.  In this next iteration of the carnival I wanted to focus on articles that I have read that provide motivation for me personally.  Maybe someone has become successful at being location independent, or perhaps they are doing something on my list.   Either way something about their writing has motivated me enough to want to share it with you.  A few …