I seem to have lost my edge in retirement 🙂 . I used to be a badass that took 6am and redeye flights to save money, while disregarding my sleep and chugging coffee until my heart felt like a hummingbird was trying to leap out of my chest…and I thought that was a good thing 😉 . Continue reading “How I Choose And Book My Flights: A Peek Inside A Full-Time Nomad’s Travel Planner”
Author: A Purple Life
The Month Of Seattle: May 2023 Recap
Somehow May is over and once again my first question is: How?!? 🙂 Time continues to fly over here. This month I went back to my ‘home’ of Seattle after a lovely month exploring California and expanded my housesitting capabilities while seeing what it’s like to care for someone else’s home and hot tub 🙂 . So let’s see what I got up to!
The Psychology Of Giving: How I Tricked Myself Into Donating More
I have something special for y’all today! You seemed to enjoy the times my partner dropped by to give his perspective like in this Q&A post and this one about traveling coffee so today he’s here to talk about giving. Take it away my dude!
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My Favorite Nomad Travel Tools Of 2023
Last year I detailed the tools I’ve amassed that have made my nomad life easier in the post below. Well less than a year later, I’ve found even more. I’m always impressed with all the things that are available on the internet for free that improve our lives 🙂 . So let’s get into it!
Slow Travel Review: Sacramento, CA – The Land Of Flowers & Sunshine
I don’t know why, but I still like to think I understand cities before I visit them…and that’s dumb 🙂 . I’ve been proven wrong again and again and yet…here I am thinking the same thing. Hubris. I had never visited the California capital of Sacramento before, and I expected it to be like the suburbs of San Fran, where I’d visited during my childhood, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. Continue reading “Slow Travel Review: Sacramento, CA – The Land Of Flowers & Sunshine”
The Best Breweries I Visited In Sacramento, CA
A lot of things have surprised me since I landed in Sacramento at the beginning of April. One of which was that not many people talk about this amazing city. Another one was that it has 50 breweries. For a city that only has 500,000 people and that I can walk across in an hour, I find that very impressive 🙂 . Continue reading “The Best Breweries I Visited In Sacramento, CA”
The Month Of California: April 2023 Recap
A third of 2023 is over and I must politely ask: What the fuck 🙂 ? Time is barreling forward because (I assume?) I’m having too much fun. So let’s see what I got up to in the fourth month of the year.
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Review: Amtrak Coast Starlight Roomette – Sacramento, CA to Seattle, WA
Why would we pay $200 for a 2 hour flight when we could pay $602 for a 20 hour train ride? You know 😉 ? That is the discussion my partner and I had when deciding how we wanted to travel from California to Washington.
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