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A few days ago I came across this Ask Me Anything on Reddit: I quit my job to solo travel internationally for one year, and I spent under $15,000. AMA Not too far off from my past few years and I've gotten many of the same questions.
Richard Noack
Recapping a(nother) year on the road
Whoosh. There goes 2024 and what a wild ride it was. I made another twelve month deposit in my “six month sabbatical” account. And stop me if you’ve heard me say this before, but I can’t believe that things are still this fun and still going this well.
Becoming Australia’s dumbest backpacker
After a few years of exploring and traveling around there was one highly recommended place that I hadn’t made it to yet. Obviously there are plenty of places that I haven’t been to but this one’s significant in that it’s a continent: Australia. A few months
Collection of long-distance skates
Skatepacking, skatetouring, bladepacking, ultraskating, and so on. If there's an agreed-upon name for this, then I'll update this page. There is an immense lack of online resources out there about the long distance trips that have been completed or attempted on inline skates. Yet, somehow on
Huandao – 1000km around Taiwan
Hello there, I spent the past three weeks skating 900 kilometers all around the island of Taiwan. The entire country loves cycling and some of the major bicycle manufacturers like Giant are from here. Because of that there is a ton of cycling infrastructure and one of the most popular
Skatepacking and traveling on inline skates
Throughout my two and a half years of traveling I have always brought along my rollerblades. Even on flights they’re in the cabin with me as a personal item. Here are some of the routes and places I've explored. All those routes can be downloaded directly from