2013/12/19 The Essentials Are More Numerous Than You Think A primary consideration for any adventure, especially one as ambitious as the Boot-Strap Expat adventure is assuring that you have everything you need to successfully get from point A to point B. Having spent over a year living in the wilds I’ve learned that even my…
2013/12/16 Over the last few months I’ve endeavored to share the goals, experiences, insights and challenges for potential Boot-Strap Expats. We covered all kinds of topics; from Expat motivations, planning, liquidating assets, my K9 Masters, essential gear, original art and Real Food for Real Life. But what do you want more of as we move…
2013/12/13 As a Freshman at Michigan State University in the late 1970s, Ramen was a gift from the Gods for me. I love pasta. I love Cantonese food. I love cheap. I love easy to prepare. Did I mention I love cheap? Ramen was the perfect go-to food for my 18 year old self. I…
2013/12/11 Review of Goals The Primary goals of the Boot-Strap Expat adventure are To complete a road-trip from the Great Lakes to Santiago Chile, To document the entire adventure by Blog and Vlog, To create a documentary film of the adventure, Write a companion book about the adventure, Start a business in Chile to support…
2013/12/09 Scroll down for recipe ideas beneath my babbling. Wild Turkeys almost disappeared from North America, but they have since made an incredible comeback! Now they are almost everywhere except Alaska from what I hear. During the ten months I lived in the wilds of Louisiana in 2010, I only went into town every two…
2013/12/03 Failure Is How We Get Ahead In Life I’ve been a failure since my first breath. Born with a mortal congenital heart defect I was not expected to live beyond four years of age. But in 1963 failures like me were given a chance to live beyond our natural physiology, pediatric cardiac surgeons at…
2013/11/27 I’ve been a slacker over the last month or so. I hate asking for assistance. Maybe it’s a guy thing, but even when I have been ground into the dirt, asking for help has always been the last thing I would consider. In 1989, I returned to the Great Lakes from California which was…
2013/11/18 Who Doesn’t love Pizza? I’ve never met anyone that doesn’t like pizza of one type or another; be it greasy, need a bib New York slices, Chicago deep dish, crispy thin pizza, Detroit deep dish which is crunchy at the edges and bread-like throughout, seafood pizza of Puerto Rico, or the Greek and sautéed…
2013/11/13 Essential Tools for Eating Well On the Road or In the Wilds Cookware – Cast Iron, Stainless Steel, Enamelware and Real Knives Cast Iron If you’ve never cooked with cast iron cookware you have no idea how bamboozled you’ve been by the latest, greatest, non-stick pots and pans. Cast iron is the original non-stick…
2013/11/12 Bear with me here, we’ll get to the Foodie Bits soon. This was originally intended to be the first of a series of articles on Real Food and Wild Food preparation, but when the Muses call you off on a tangent, it is wise to follow them. We’re All Food Anyone familiar with Human history…
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