I bought a couple TSA-compatible luggage locks from Amazon. My plan was to use this on my new eBags TLS Workstation Laptop Backpack to secure my laptop and other stuff during our travels through As...

My wife Beth posted an article about us being on the home stretch of our preparation for the six month (maybe less, maybe more) travel. She wrote, “Todd has to see the dermatologist again, and I am...

Having recently bought my first domestic Australian airline tickets, I noticed something weird about their carry-on baggage policies. Like many US airlines, they allow you to take one carry-on bag ...

This past week, the first bad decision of my planning for our big trip became apparent. And it has to do with my phone. A few months ago, I read a bunch of articles, including this one from Nomadic...

As we prepare to leave Denver, we’ve got a lot of stuff to get rid of. Here’s the current list, just in case any of my friends are interested in this stuff. I’ll update this as we add more or sell ...

Beth and I both like to travel. A few years ago, we started to wonder if we could just do it full time. About the same time, the notion of the “location independent lifestyle” first hit the edge of...

My inner ear / skull base surgery was February 27, which means it’s been almost two months now! I wrote an update about a month ago, so here’s the latest news. I went back to driving a car and hav...

You may have heard that I’m not running for President of the United States in the 2016 election. I ran in 2012 with Jeff Stampes. We didn’t win, as you probably noticed. But we gave it our best sho...

I’ve been running a regular Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG game for the past several months. But a different group where I’m a player recently asked if I would occasionally be a “judge” for that game, ...

UPDATE: The entire set of sound gear is now sold. I bought a bunch of film sound gear back in 2006, and have used it very sporadically since then. But I realized I haven’t used most of it at all i...