Florida is known as a place where everything is bigger and better – the theme park rides, the sports and certainly the food.
Category: USA
Introduction to the Oregon Coast
When I brought my family from Morocco in 2013, we were going to settle in the San Francisco Bay Area but I found that no one wanted to hire a guy in his 40s who hadn’t worked at a fortune 500 company unless they wanted to pay far less than it took to live…
Beyond the Ghosts – Grave Tourism in Lynchberg, Virginia
There are tombstone tourists who plan vacations around the resting places of Hollywood stars and military gravers who track down Civil War soldiers.
Start Up San Francisco – An Economy Trip to the Capital of Tech in Silicon Valley
As those who know me or read Vagobond almost certainly know – I’m a serial business creator – also known as an entrepreneur. When I was around eight-years-old- my grandmother was having a day with me, my siblings, and my cousins – she asked everyone what they wanted to do when they grew up. She…
Vagobond Travel Videos and Vagobond Youtube Channel
It’s a little hard to believe – but I’ve pretty much ignored video as a medium. This isn’t because I don’t believe in the power of video – but mainly because of technological issues. After all, in 2008 when I graduated from the University of Hawaii – my main focus was anthropology and my secondary…
World Travel for Almost Nothing #6
One of the biggest impediments to world travel is your stuff. Not just your physical stuff, but your mental stuff too. It’s hard to get rid of the baggage you’ve spent your life accumulating. One of the reasons I’ve been able to see as much as I have is that I’ve gone through the painful…
World Travel for Almost Nothing #5
Being able to do something useful makes all the difference in the world when you want to travel the world for free or for almost nothing. The fact that I can write, edit, work on computers, fix cars, and wash dishes means that I can go just about anywhere and trade my skills for whatever…
How Not To Enjoy World Travel – Part 1
There has been a lot written about how to enjoy world travel or how to increase the ways that world travel can fulfill you. What I haven’t seen is a lot about how to have a miserable time when you are on the road.
10 Largest Cities in the World by Population
2019 Largest Cities in the World The world has changed a lot since I originally wrote this article back in 2011. Almost a decade later – populations have shifted significantly along with everything else. I’ve got this idea in my head these days that I want to visit all of the largest cities in the…
Places I’ve Lived #23 – Sacramento, California – Squatting in Arden Arcade
Once we had my wife’s green card, I made a plan. It wasn’t a great plan, but it was a plan. I bought our plane tickets – me, wife, and baby. We were flying from Morocco to Dubai then to San Francisco. Using some travel contacts, I managed to get us a three night stay…