Vagabond Insider

Hey Everyone. I’ve been following shoe money for a while now, and I’ve learned a ton of stuff from you. I even have the Shoemoney System. While my results have not been terribly amazing, I believe the biggest component missing from my business and life, is a network of similar minded folks. I’ve been doing [...]

When we are able to watch and be mindful of what happens when we are eating, we’ll be able to appreciate the time we spend on simple matters. There are health benefits too. I’m guilty of this and I find many folks I eat with are too. We don’t pay attention to every bite, we [...]

A positive person receives many benefits. By positive, I mean a person who displays an attitude, a thought process, an aura of positivity. Being positive is not truly the opposite of being negative, it’s more about being optimistic and thinking thoughts which do not look down on other folks. Instead of thinking: “That person is fat.” A positive [...]

Smelly feet makes a room smelly!

I had the choice recently in the new place I’m staying.

Either have the steamer guys come back and re-clean the room for more cost or find a way to remove the odor with an at home process.

I’m frugal with myself. Even if my land lady would pay for it, I opted to do it myself quickly instead of waiting nearly a week for them to come. I definitely didn’t want to sleep in a stinky room for a week.

I researched a little and set out to my local Wal-Mart to look for some carpet cleaners. I also read Baking Soda was great for eliminating odors. After looking for a while to only find ONE type of carpet cleaning powder, I went for baking soda. It was much cheaper and I only wanted to remove odor. I also read that carpet cleaning powder is for high traffic very short carpet, more industrial type area or office. In shag carpet, it doesn’t all get picked up by the vacuum and cleans dirt off shoes to dirty carpet.

I would not recommend using [...]

Posted on February 12th 2010.

You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.

Valentine’s Day is coming up. V-Day is on Sunday on February 14th actually.

I know I know this day is a commercial created holidays to generate sales. I know I know it is a superficial day to care about.

The girl, boy or others (maybe your dog or the other gender) usually don’t care about your reasons why you think Valentine’s day is a waste (I know this from experience). All that matters is this, their feelings about Valentine’s Day and why they want to do something special on this day.

Taking their feelings into account, it just doesn’t matter anymore what you want. Maybe they say they don’t care, when they really do, they only say they don’t to please you sometimes. If you are a vagabond traveling away from your loved ones, there are many things you can do to still show them they are special.

Now let’s think of some Valentine’s Day ideas! If you have any feel free to leave them in the comments below. I’m interested in hearing new ones for myself; I’ll steal an idea or two.

For Vagabonds or Travelers [...]

Posted on February 9th 2010.

License and Registration please.

These dreaded four words. Before these four words, those flashing lights from some car behind you. You start to pull over and say “Ah crap.” This car from behind you pulls up, they step out of their car. You roll down your window, and the person says, “License and Registration please.”

Most every driver has had this situation, I’ve had my fair share. Luckily in almost every instance the police officer has let me go. The one time I did get a ticket was when I was on a bike in a college town, officers think bike riders in a college towns are worthless.

I think it is important as a vagabond to avoid tickets and trouble with officers whenever possible. Vagabonds may go on many road trips, so there are many chances for being pulled over. It is especially important internationally.

Here’s what happened during my road trip from California to Texas, I was pulled over in Texas.

It was daytime, around 12:00pm, I was a few hours from my destination. More and more traffic started showing up on the highway, and I found myself passing a truck and a semi, they were going 5-7 miles above the speed limit.

The whole way I was driving 10 miles per hour above the speed limit during this road trip. I saw the cop as I drove by, he was sitting in the median with his radar gun. I thought to myself, ah crap, and said to myself [...]

Posted January 23rd 2010.