Ryan O’Conner knew from day one he didn’t want a typical job or lifestyle. Instead of being herded into a corporate job after college he went into something that would lead him to the location independent lifestyle – SEO (Search Engine Optimimization) consulting. He was happy, but striking it out on his own was the only […]
Category: Stories
5 Incredible Things I Learned While Traveling the Country for a Month
I’ve referenced the movie ‘Up in the Air’ many times in the past here on Life Nomading. And to be quite frank, I have experienced many of the ups and downs that the movie references in the past three years… But it wasn’t until this past month when I was living out of airports and […]
Insanely Beautiful Icelandic Ice Caves You Will Want to Visit Right Now
Iceland has become one of the hottest tourist destinations. New cheap airfare from Wow Air (only a couple hundred round trip!), and insanely beautiful scenery have put Iceland on almost everyone’s travel wish list. One of the most unique and breathtaking sights there are Icelandic Ice Caves. Most ice caves are not simply caves that have […]
You Won’t Believe What These 10 Famous Places Looked Like in the 50’s
Times Square, New York Times Square was a lot cheaper in 1938. Look closely on the left and you can see a dinner deal for 60 cents. Today with 60 cents you can buy maybe a few pieces of chiclet gum. Yellow Stone National Park, Wyoming Back then there were no signs telling you to […]
Interview: Tom Burden on Launching the Grypmat and How to Launch a Product
Tom Burdon On Launching the Grypmat UPDATE: The Grypmat Kickstarter was a success. They raised over $100,000 and made it into the top 1.5% of all Kickstarter campaigns These days the average American home has 30,000 to 300,000 items in it (La Times) – and almost all of them are products (Unless you hoard raw materials??). […]
Change
Change is hard. Hear me out. Figuring out new norms is a difficult task to bestow upon just about anyone, even me. But the truth about life is that change happens and it’s inevitable. You can’t control that even if you desperately want to. For me change happened this past week. I had a wakeup call […]
Set Yourself Apart From Everyone Else
Let’s be honest, setting yourself apart from everyone else seems to be increasingly harder and harder to do in this day and age. The more and more social media and our digital world grows the more difficult it is to just merely become yourself. With so many people sharing their ideas and so many people […]
I Went Exploring in Cincinnati, Ohio : VLOG (#001)
I’ve vlogged before. It’s a really hard thing to do. I love making videos, I love creating digital “things”. So I decided, why the hell not try it again? I used to complain about having so many projects and things that needed to get done, or that I wanted to attempt. Recently I have just decided […]
What’s Left Out In The Talk About Aimless Adventure
We’ve all read the BuzzCatalogue articles about the “27 Places You Need To Drop Everything And Fly To NOW.” We’re all just restless millennial expressions of Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady on an endless adventure. While these listicles provide the distraction necessary to sludge through another day at the office, they rarely discuss what actually […]
What No One Tells You About Living In NYC
Maybe you hear horror stories of how expensive The Big Apple is, or see photos on Instagram that make this city seem like the best city in the world, but there are some things that are not talked about as much. I moved to New York City about 1 month and a half ago, and […]