I’m infuriated thinking back to all the time I’ve spent aimlessly scrolling on Facebook’s news feed, or any social media feed for that matter. These are completely impulsive time wasting activities that give us instant gratification and nothing more. In fact one could argue in our ego driven...

Pura Vida, translating to ‘Pure Life’, is Costa Rica’s official slogan and is said by every person here to end every conversation. Pura Vida. Pure Life. What would people in New York city say to end every conversation I wonder… “I’m F*cking stressed man, I don’t have time...

Daily Decisions – The Sum of All its Parts Each day consists of many binary decisions where we have a choice to be productive or feed instant gratifications. Consciously or not we consistently make these decisions each and every day. And the summation of these decisions builds up to how we spend our day. I...

“How you spend your days is how you spend your life” – Annie Dillard. One of my favorite quotes rings true when contemplating how my personal progression has gone on the goals I set out to accomplish on this growth trip. Thinking back and how I’ve spent my time, let’s take a look at...

I previously alluded to the difficulties of maintaining productivity while traveling, and namely, the importance of focusing on your goals and reasons for traveling in a previous post. I want to explain deeper the importance of maintaining daily rituals and routines while traveling. Something that has become...

First some photos to help set the stage: You know that saying that I myself only half remember: A picture just doesn’t do it justice. Yeah, that is Salar de Uyuni. This 3 day tour through the salt flats alone was worth the $160 Visa admission into Bolivia. I can’t even begin to describe in […]

A commonality we often share when traveling is we are mentally in a relaxed state. Open for adventure, stresses in the rearview mirror popping up much less frequently than when back at home. A lot of this has to do with breaking free from our routines when traveling. Most people have a loose itinerary for […]

Lessons Rad has learned traveling through Colombia (Medellin, Guatape, Salento, Cali) & Peru (Cusco, Agua Calientes, Puno, Lake Titicaca)  Tomatoes are much tastier in Colombia Colombia’s number one export is….. Flowers! All the stores in Centro Commercial’s (“Malls”) are the same and it freaks me out a bit....

Yesterday, I battled through stomach pains to hike Machu Picchu Mountain. I’m not sure why I thought the “Las montañas” hike would be a leisure stroll around the mountain until I ended up at the peak for some great photo ops. Instead it was a grueling 2 hour 2km hike ascending 300m vertically. (US...

I’ll ask you a simple question: If you eliminate the word “depressed” from your vocabulary can you still feel that emotion? Back in 2013 I listened to a Tony Robbins audiobook where he mentioned depression. And paraphrasing he said depression was a shitty word we use, because there’s no...