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 Healthy food is important to Adrian. This is an excerpt from the September 2010 issue of Global Asset Strategist.
I continue my interview with Adrian S., a married man with a family who sold most of his possessions in search of a better life. Links to earlier parts of the interview can be found at the end of this post.
Adrian S: Well, we’re planning to go to Paraguay this year but we’re still researching what they would require for health examinations. I really don’t want to get shots from some Rockefeller allopathic doctor who’s going to stick me a mercury barb.
Jennifer Barry: Yeah, I can understand that. I have not gotten any vaccines in a while and one of the last ones I did was Hepatitis B, and I reacted poorly to that. I think that vaccine is still affecting me 15 years later. Continue reading Stranger in His Own Land, Part 6
 This is a continuation of my interview with Adrian S., a married man with a family who sold most of his possessions in search of a better life. Links to earlier parts of the interview can be found below.
Jennifer Barry: Did you tell me you’re going to Paraguay next?
Adrian S: We went to Panamá, and then we started looking more closely at places we might want to live. It’s been an internet search so far. Uruguay is near the top of our list because it has more of a European population, people who are more similar to our children. The average young person living in a small town in Panamá didn’t have a lot in common with our kids. There seems to be such a huge gap between their life experiences that it’s difficult to overcome. I don’t know that it’ll be better in some other place. There were a lot of things about Uruguay that looked good. Continue reading Stranger in His Own Land, Part 5
 Traveling used to be a lot more dangerous. While there have always been explorers, wanderers, and people who wanted to see what was over the next hill, this group used to be dominated by single men. After all, the world was dangerous, and travel was very slow and arduous. Your ship could sink, you could be felled by an exotic disease, or you could be fatally attacked by a wild animal at any time. Even if you survived, you would not see your loved ones for many years. Mail service was nonexistent in many locations, so contact was infrequent at best.
Fast forward to today, and technology has made exploring a whole lot easier. Now single women, couples and even families can jump on a plane and go. Tours and guidebooks are readily available to make your trip go smoother, with hotels and restaurants serving all but the most remote locations. Modern medical care can treat you if you are ill, and vaccines can even prevent diseases. Animals are rarely a danger outside rural areas. Contact is cheap and frequent with the internet, and you can post pictures of your travels to Facebook or your blog before you even return home! Continue reading Mobile Lifestyle
This is a continuation of my interview with Adrian S., a married man with a family who sold most of his possessions in search of a better life. Links to earlier parts of the interview can be found below.
Adrian S: In November 2009, we went to Panamá because we had not been out of the country much, we’re kind of provincial people, we only speak one language. My two children really haven’t seen much except suburban life except for that brief time in the countryside of Oregon. And we thought it would be a good idea to go to Panamá. We stayed three months there, and that was a real eye opener. We saw that things were possible outside of the United States. There were a lot of things that were shocking. Continue reading Stranger in His Own Land, Part 4
photo by Michael Shake
This a guest post from Jonny Gibaud at thelifething.com.
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Sai Balakrishna moved to the US from New Delhi, India in 1981. Since then, he has excelled in management positions in many different industries while earning two Master’s degrees, one in Industrial Engineering, and the other in Business Administration. He is currently the COO of ProCureVision, a consulting company which solves complex business [...]
Not all the wildlife in Australia is deadly.
Jennifer Barry: How are you enjoying Perth? You mentioned to me that there were a lot of sharks in the harbor.
Matthew Oglivie: We’ve got Great Whites here, they’re scary to look at. I like Perth, the lifestyle here is very relaxed. [...]
Jennifer Barry: Tell me about your experience moving the family to Australia. That must be logistically difficult, especially with four children.
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