Kathleen and Greg from Tiny House, capsule Tiny Footprint decided to downsize their lives from a downtown apartment in Denver, Colorado to a 140 square foot camper trailer/mobile home. For the first year of their tiny house experiment, the 1969…
This Couple Lives on their Sailboat, Year-Round, in Alaska!
Every week we receive emails from people who want to be featured on our YouTube channel and it’s always exciting for us to meet new lifestyle explorers, and learn how they’re creating their own unique life plan that’s in line with…
How to Find Online Work and Earn Money While Traveling
When Mat and I came home after our first full year of travelling, the only thing we could think about (aside from seeing friends and family) was how we could save the money we needed to travel again. We wanted to…
Using Social Media Distorts Our Perception of Reality
Social media became a big part of our lives when we started the Exploring Alternatives project in 2014. Now, we post weekly videos and photos about alternative lifestyles, and we also follow (sometimes obsessively!) people who are living the alternative…
Have You Ever Thought of Quitting the Rat Race?
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to get off the “more” treadmill and live with less? Mat and I thought about it all the time before we sold our house 3 years ago in an attempt to try something different. The nomadic…
Should I Plan for Retirement?
I found The Wealthy Barber on my dad’s night table when I was about 14 years old and decided to read it, cover to cover, because I thought it would give me a head start on my retirement savings plans. I…
What Should I Do with My Life?
I like to make crazy to-do lists and elaborate budget spreadsheets, I like to read the last page in a book before I start it and I especially like to know the ending of a movie before I watch it. I guess…
What the Heck Are We Doing?
In less than two weeks we are leaving this cozy log cabin in Olympia, WA and moving into our cargo van for the summer (hopefully longer if we’re allowed back in the US in the fall!). We’re both super excited…
Why We Live a Nomadic Lifestyle
Mat and I are very cautious people – we’re afraid of all kinds of things like germs (Mat) and bears (me) and many things in between. Knowing that, it doesn’t really make sense that we would thrive on a life…
Don’t Let “What Ifs” Stop You from Doing What You Love
Mat and I are extremely indecisive (as you can probably tell from our last post about having babies). We often come up with ambitious plans for trips we’d like to take or projects we’d like to try, but we’re not…