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Dangerous border crossings and a big fat launch!

Passport stamp Colombia

Exciting times!

We have now crossed two of the reportedly most dangerous border crossings in the world – Venezuela to Colombia (last year) and Colombia to Ecuador (last week).

Both times were easy and hassle free. The image of these crossings and border towns were far worse than the reality (more…)

Good Life Feature: Quit your job and travel the world with Eartha.

Eartha Map

Eartha Austria took the plunge and decided to travel the world and blog about it!

She quit her job, moved out of her home, sold and donated most of her belongings and couch-surfed with a friend for 6 months to save some money for the trip. She doesn’t know how her year  of travel is going to pan out, but she’s sure it’s going to be an (more…)

Location Freedom Guide: How to Earn While You Travel the World

Location Freedom - Travel and Work

Location freedom. The ability to earn money from anywhere in the world.

We are travelling for 3 years and most people we meet assume we are very very rich!! But alas financially this is not true… yet!

What we have is a travel income! We have created different income streams that are flexible and low maintenance. We can earn while we are by the beach in Bondi or climbing a volcano in a lake Nicaragua. (more…)

Good Life Feature: The Life Change That Lets You Work From Home

View from office

I am thrilled to introduce you to one of my course graduates! After doing the Website Launchpad course in 2011, Erin O’Brien launched her website and has been working from home in her business.

She is Chief Encouragement Officer at Activate28, helping social entrepreneurs who have a big vision for making a difference but who struggle with all the little steps in making it a reality.

Starting her own business was Erin’s third big life change – the first two were spontaneous pack-up-and-move-overseas adventures (moving from Sydney to live in Tonga and New Zealand). Read on to find out more about (more…)

Good Life Feature: An excellent escape to the Bliss of Bali

Bliss Sanctuary - Hot Stone Massage

Zoe Watson’s life was cruising along nicely until an accident left her with serious injuries. Less than a year later Zoe relocated to Bali to launch the first ‘Bliss Sanctuary for Women’.

What was the defining moment for your Good Life Crisis?

A terrible car accident left me with (more…)

Too much travel? Is there such a thing as too much?

John asleep on bus

This Friday we leave for San Francisco after 9 months and 5 days of travel. We have been to 12 countries since we left Sydney and the US will be lucky 13.

For some reason even though neither of us have ever been to San Francisco it feels like we are finishing our “holiday” and heading home, maybe because we are planning to stay there for a couple of months and maybe because we have family and friends there.

The truth is that the last few weeks we have been talking about San Francisco as if (more…)