Or any other coffee shop for that matter.  Friends constantly complain to me that they don’t have money to travel, dine out at nice restaurants, or pursue other dreams and hobbies.  And yet, these same friends often check-in daily on Facebook to Starbucks, Caribou, or name your neighborhood coffee shop. “Getting my morning pick-me-up!” Wow!  What an incredible waste of money! I’m not hating on coffee shops or the entrepreneurs that run...

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I think you know my answer.  I’d rather travel.  I’d rather have the month of August off than just two weeks.  I negate Cadillac’s notion that the rest of the world is lazy because they take the month of August off when we, as proud overworked and overwhelmed Americans, only take two weeks off.  Like most Americans, I receive around three weeks of PTO a year.  Let me repeat.  Three.  Weeks.  A...

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I often receive the following comments about my blog or our travels in general.  It must be nice to have the money to go on those trips.  Or, I wish I could afford to travel like that.  Both statements frustrate me not by how they are being stated but by what they are saying.  The truth is that you can afford to travel like we do.  You just have to make it...

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