travel
Make the Most of Your Probably Miserable Holiday Travel Experience
Recently, Stuart and Kate gave you some tips on how to travel cheaply which were all very helpful, but since I’m about to scoot off on a little holiday travel of my own, I thought I’d share some of my own cheap ways to get the most out of your
Broke Ass Financial Coaching: Your Financial Priorities
What do you value? What are your priorities? It is impossible to look at spending and savings to see if it is aligned with your priorities if you don’t know what your priorities are. In addition, if I told you how to spend and save your money based on my priorities or Joe Bob’s, then you may do it for a short time but in the long run it isn’t sustainable. You create sustainability when you identify your priorities and align your spending and savings with those priorities.
This New Literary Magazine is a Gift to the People of San Francisco
I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available
Travel Books You Want to Read This Fall: Part 2
Now I know you’ve been waiting desperately for the final ten books on my Travel Books List. Thinking about them kept you up nights this week, eh? Well today is the big reveal! 11. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Some books you finish and you sit processing
Travel Books You Want to Read This Fall: Part 1
Being a Broke-Ass means so much more than not having a lot of money. For you, it might mean spending less in order to live it up more. For others, it means working less in order to simply enjoy life more. And others choose to take on six different part-time
The Arctic vs. The Bay: The 2009 Eat Real Festival
I just got back from Alaska, which to me, a liberal, vegan, and judgmental Californian, appeared to be a backwards, behind-the-times, redneck state with stunningly gorgeous views and impressive wilderness. Against this lush, green backdrop, the food situation was unforgivable. Health food stores were few and far-between and restaurants were
The Aluminium Age of Travel
Im currently in the Bolt Bus, hurtling down the highway at a zillion miles per hour (60) headed towards the real center of the universe NYC. In the months prior to my move from NY to Boston, I rode the ol’ Bolt Bus a number of times and had the
Elections, Crabs and Cocaine
December 5, 2006 Elections, Crabs and Cocaine Lima writhes and bends under its own weight; bustling, bumping, wobbling, weaving, bucking, like a city trying to decide whether to consume itself completely, or reach way down low and pull itself up by its dirty-ass bootstraps. Hustlers, hoods and thieves circumnavigate the