2014/03/15 Some Things Ya Just Gotta Learn The Hard Way – Regardless of how successful we are in any aspect of our lives, there are times when the end-result we have envisioned, planned and worked for fails to materialize the way we intended it to. The Boot-Strap Expat adventure, after six months of focused efforts…
2014/02/10 Anarchy, Expatriation, Liberty, The Fed, Bitcoins and the Illuminati! – Super Bowl Sunday I was honored to be invited to speak with Out Of The Box, a discussion based broadcast produced by Above Top Secret. (links below) The producers initially thought our discussion might last thirty minutes, but the Muses pushed it to over…
2014/02/06 Anarchists Trump Libertarians Every Time – Stop Asking For Permission! Now that I have a few reg’lar readers and a few irreg’lar readers (they’re my favorites) I’m sometimes confronted by my compatriots in the Liberty camp for not supporting all their candidates and issues. I did that. For three decades I only voted for…
2014/01/24 A wonderful woman just asked me “why” I’m pursuing the Boot-Strap Expat Adventure. I find it insightful to consider such questions because it took years of introspection for me to come to the decision to expatriate. While I will surely benefit from a move to South America, I’m also a guy with a sense…
2014/01/15 Bug Out Bags of the Deludinnati! – I recently read that some Wall Street types have suggested Bug-Out Bags to their audience via one of the Lame Street Media outlets. I should have jotted down where I read about it and the collectivist media outlet that broadcast the recommendation, but I was too busy…
2014/01/06 Last week I read a wonderful essay by Foo Quuxman on Daily Anarchist titled, Why I’m an Anarchist (link below) and it inspired me to review my own path to embracing Anarchy. There is very little commonality between Foo and I with regard to background, upbringing or what brought us to similar conclusions and…
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…
2013/12/03 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…
The Bootstrap Expat 