Packing Ultralight Packing List for Digital Nomads & Photographers: 1 Carry-On Bag, Indefinite Travel. What’s the easiest way to travel? With one carry-on sized backpack. 🎒 Here’s my ultralight digital nomad packing list for indefinite travel.
Digital Nomad After 4 months on the road, what’s next? 4 months, 4 countries. 🇮🇸🇬🇧 But what’s next? What do you do when you’ve wrapped up most of your sabbatical goals?
Photography Sinking Costs on England’s Jurassic Coast I planned an early dawn shoot this morning in Lulworth. But a few minutes before sunrise, I gave up. 😳 A personal anecdote of the Sunk Cost Fallacy. ⛵️
Announcements I’m going on a travel sabbatical, and you can too! What if you could take a year long travel sabbatical? ✈️ I’m headed overseas to invest in landscape photography — and you can too!
Vlog Everything You Should Know About Renting a Car in Europe Want to see a country more like a local? 🚗 Car rentals can be a pain, here’s everything you need to know to rent a car in Europe affordably. 💸
Vlog 5 Tips to Save Money on International Travel Travel is pricey, can you save money without sacrificing your sanity? 🤑 I’ve spent 5 years learning by trial and error — Here are 5 ways I save w/o compromising the trip quality!
Travel Are travel sabbaticals crazy, or the best investment of your life? In a country notorious for the least amount of time off, US workers routinely face burnout. A travel sabbatical is a powerful way to invest in your career: here’s how to count the cost and get started.
Photography Landscape photography from my 15 day trip through western Oregon. My second trip to Oregon was epic, challenging and extreme. ❄️🏜🌲🏔🌋 It was also one of the most frustrating trips I’ve taken.
Digital Nomad The digital nomad lifestyle is more about freedom and less about travel. A couple weeks ago, someone asked me what it meant to be a digital nomad. Is being a digital nomad just about owning very little and traveling all the time?
Digital Nomad Advance Your Travel Photography by Spotting These Cognitive Biases Irrational behavior is no laughing matter when it prevents you from improving at your craft—and you don’t even realize it. 🧠 Learn how to spot cognitive biases so you can outwit them.
Digital Nomad Want to travel full-time? Your US tax return might fund a year off-the-grid. Imagine working remotely from the Alps, living in B&Bs full-time as a location independent consultant. 🇺🇸 Uncle Sam may be able to help when you file your next tax return by substantially reducing your US tax burden!
Travel @Fstoppers: Discover Unique Landscape Photography Spots Before Takeoff Amazing photos begin with stunning locations. On Fstoppers.com, I cover techniques to discover unique landscapes without tourists and selfie-sticks — pretty pictures included. 😇
Travel @Fstoppers: 10 Essential Travel Apps for Nomadic Photographers With the right cornucopia of apps, your smartphone is the ultimate travel companion. Digital nomads and travel photographers place particularly stringent requirements on these apps. In my post on Fstoppers.com, we cover
Gear What’s in My Camera Bag for Landscape Photography? Half the fun of being a landscape photographer is nerding out on camera gear. The other half is consolidating my kit so I can travel light as a digital nomad. Here’s what my camera kit looks like for landscape photography trips.
Photo Journal Photo Journal: Spirit Falls Just north of the Oregon-Washington border lies one of the truly hidden gems of the Columbia River Gorge. Spirit Falls has no public trail, and until recently the only known trail down the steep gorge crossed illegally into private land.
Digital Nomad @Fstoppers: How to Pack Your Gear and Clothes in One Bag for Indefinite Travel Planes run out of overhead storage, car crashes happen—travel is hard enough as a tourist, but as a nomadic photographer things can go south fast. In my guest post at Fstoppers.com,
Photo Journal Photo Journal: Mount Hood After a fantastic morning at Lost Lake, I expected to take the rest of the day easy and focus on more accessible locations. Trillium Lake was on my bucket list, and according to
Digital Nomad @Fstoppers: How to Become a Digital Nomad Before You Hit the Road It finally happened! I’m guest writing over at Fstoppers.com about traveling as a digital nomad and landscape photographer. 🎒 Are you interested in becoming a digital nomad and traveling indefinitely? Or just
Photo Journal Photo Journal: Lost Lake at Mount Hood It’s going on a year since my first trip to Oregon, but there are still so many unfinished shots owing to my inexperience with brilliant snowy backdrops. I decided to tack on
Photo Journal Photo Journal: South Stack Lighthouse in Wales One of my all-time favorite shots came from the lighthouse on Holyhead in north Wales. The prior night, we drove the long haul from Devonshire to the hills of north Wales and Snowdonia
Travel Wish You (Weren’t) Here Tired of the crowd of selfie-snapping tourists? The best photo ops are not bucket list tourist destinations: they’re up a mountain or down a snow-covered back road. Here are 10 of my favorite havens across Europe and the US.
Travel Becoming a Digital Nomad starts today, not tomorrow. Becoming a Digital Nomad can be daunting, but even if you aren’t ready to travel the world, there are some practical ways to start “getting in shape” today!
Travel 12 things to ditch, and 12 to keep as a Digital Nomad. It's hard to be a Digital Nomad if you're loaded down with stuff. Here are 24 things I own or ditched in my noob pursuit of an adventure-friendly lifestyle.
Travel Stuff is ruining your life. Musings from a noob digital nomad. What if life at home looked the same as life on the road? As a noob digital nomad, the main obstacle to this has been the amount of stuff I own.
Travel Hiking, Starving & Freezing on Sentinel Dome Two brothers' escapades during their trek through Yosemite National Park.