Welcome, friends and strangers.

I started this site because for years, friends of mine have marveled at the trips I take and the way I live my life, as if it were something out of reach to regular people.

It’s not. It’s quite easy, actually, and this site is going to show you how.

Pick a word: amazing, adventurous, exciting, exotic, inspiring, free.

These can apply to your life too.

A couple of years ago, after a six-week trip to Costa Rica and Brazil, my friend George asked me if I was a trustafarian (one of those trust fund kids who travel the world in the guise of a rastarafarian). No, I said. I’m a freelanceafarian. And that’s how the term was born.

I’m a freelancer (in my case, in advertising) who works to live and roam free around the earth.

Now I’ve become passionate about spreading the word. After twenty years in the workforce, I know people need me. People need to bring some freelanceafarian spirit into their lives, whether they’re freelance or not.

A note: I live in the USA, so I write from that point of view. But you’ll see that what I write is for anyone on the planet.

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Live Like You're Dying

I’m so sick of hearing Americans faux-joking “No one ever got to their deathbed and said ‘I wish I’d worked harder,’” and then working like martyrs for companies who will never, ever reciprocate the loyalty. Fuck that.

To the people who like to brag, “I haven’t taken a vacation in [insert horrifying amount of time, i.e., anything over five months]” this site is not for you, unless you’ve come to change your ways.

Here’s a case in point. It’s a Cadillac commercial applauding our dementedness, along with my hero Bill Maher’s response.

Why should the people with serious diseases get all the perspective in life? You shouldn’t have to get cancer to understand that our time here is limited and fleeting. Life should be about loving deeply, living with purpose, and embracing this world as richly as possible.

Quick, close your eyes and answer this: where’s one place you’ve always wanted to visit?

To whatever you answered, I say: There’s a lot of world out there. And your time is limited.

My friend Kristin posted this great quote by Ray Bradbury:

“Stuff your eyes with wonder. Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that. Shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451