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“I am a Hypocrite”

“I am a hypocrite” I think my biggest blogging fear is the thought of having to say those words.  While there aren’t really true yet, the next few months are going to reveal a lot about my credibility as a blogger.  99% of the people in the world are really good at talking about all the things they want to do, and all of their big plans.  Yet there is only a very, very small percentage that actually has the courage to act. As of this second, I have not designed my ideal lifestyle.  I am still working at my job, making my car payments, and generally living a comfortable life.  What does that do for my credibility as a

Continue Reading > 26 Comments posted: October 5th, 2009

I Finally Gave In: I Bought an iPod

I did it.  After 8 years of holding out, and not giving into the masses, I bought an iPod.  You might be wondering why it took me so long to join the legions of cool people out there globe trotting with their white headphones. Or perhaps why I was even against it in the first place.  After so many years, I am not even sure I am able to answer that question.  However, I think it started out with my hatred for iTunes. I have never been so against something that I have no experience with,  in all my life.  I was perfectly happy using winamp for all of my music organizational needs.  I didn’t need an Apple program to come in

Continue Reading > 19 Comments posted: October 1st, 2009

Quit your Job, Move to Hawaii: Some final Thoughts

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 try something new and have an adventure. Now, I work at a hotel in sales, make decent money, and more or less am living the stereotypical island lifestyle. Every

Continue Reading > 14 Comments posted: September 28th, 2009

Introducing Location Rebel

Over the last several months we’ve witnessed the organic development of a community. Lifestyle designers, artists, entrepreneurs, freelancers and travelers from the United States, England, Australia, India, Thailand, Japan — literally all over the world — coming together to reject the status quo and live out what others had told them couldn’t or shouldn’t be lived. None of us planned for this. Most of us fell into it. Here is a community of people who think as we do, who aspire to be what we aspire to be. People we can commiserate with, learn with, grow with, and most importantly, succeed with. Here we have potential business partners, mentors… and friends. We’ve all gotten to know each other quite accidentally, whether it was from a comment on a blog, a

Continue Reading > 6 Comments posted: September 24th, 2009

The Best of Location180

So over the past five months, Location180 has continued to grow and is seeing more and more success each day.  I can’t thank you all enough for the support you have shown in helping this community to thrive.  With that being said, there have certainly been some highlights since I have began, and I wanted to take a moment to point out some of the these. My Words, Your Voice I have had the pleasure of writing a few guest posts for some people that I have grown to call friends over the last few months. My first guest post ever was Gorgeous Girls, Fast Boat, French Riviera at Live Uncomfortably.  I owe Derek a lot for this opportunity, because

Continue Reading > 14 Comments posted: September 21st, 2009

If You Were to Live Abroad…

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Where would you go?  Is there are place that has always fascinated or captivated you?  Some place that has been calling your name for years?  I am trying to decide what that place would be for me.  Part of my problem is that there is so much that I want to see, I don’t know where to begin. Do I go to a place that is inexpensive and will allow me to live and support myself for a long time?  Do I take up my dream island lifestyle even if the cost of living is higher and high speed internet isn’t readily available?  What are the best metrics with which to qualify a remote living situation? I have recently been

Continue Reading > 32 Comments posted: September 17th, 2009

Carnival of Blogs #3

The last few weeks have been pretty tumultuous for me.  There have been a lot of changes going on, that I would love to write about, but I am not quite at the point where I can do so.  I will say that I am really excited for the future of Location180, and I think there are some good things coming in the future! With that being said, rather than do the talking myself, I will let some other people do the talking in the third edition of the Carnival of Blogs.  This go around, there isn’t much of a coherent theme, but rather it is simply a collection of posts that I have enjoyed over the last couple of

Continue Reading > 13 Comments posted: September 14th, 2009

Video of South Sister Hike

So the time has come for me to do my first video blog.  On my recent trip where my friend Brian and I summited the third highest peak in Oregon, we took a lot of video.  The result is my first attempt at any sort of  video editing since I took a multimedia class in 8th grade.  I just ask that you be patient with my amateur attempt at cinematography!  I would also ask that you will forgive the wind noise from the last few scenes, as I couldn’t get the noise reduction filters to work properly. Another thing I realized while I was editing this, was that I spent a lot of time whining on this hike.  It really

Continue Reading > 16 Comments posted: September 10th, 2009

#32 See Dave Matthews Band at the Gorge Amphitheater: Completed

I realize that I just wrote a post about accomplishing #16 on my list, but I felt this one deserved a mention even though I really did it for the first time a few years back.  The Gorge Amphitheater in George, Washington is one of the most  beautiful places I have ever been.  The venue holds about 25,000 people and the stage is set directly above the Columbia River. For as long as I can remember I have had friends that would drive up there on Labor Day weekend to camp and see Dave Matthews Band who plays shows on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.  Each year I always had to work and was unable to go.  Two years ago,

Continue Reading > 12 Comments posted: September 7th, 2009

Location 180 Site Update July/August

So before I even had a chance to realize it, two months have gone by and I haven’t written a site update.  So, here is one covering the last two months.  It is amazing how much has happened over that time, both in my life and with Location180. I guess the most obvious change is the fact that this blog is now known as Location 180.  I decided to follow the route of Chris Guillebeau and keep the domain as my name, but now when people are referring to the site, they have something a little bit easier to remember.  It also gave me a good chance to brush up on my Illustrator skills and create a new logo. Along

Continue Reading > 8 Comments posted: September 3rd, 2009

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