

Post navigation ← “Even when something’s gone wrong, you have a chance to hit reset. This entry was posted in Profiles and tagged exploration, on the road, profiles, reader stories, writing on Octoby Chris Guillebeau. Learn more about Kevin on The Jet-setting Copywriter blog and Linkedin. To me, this is the true definition of location-independence: making enough money so you can travel whenever you want, for a long as you want, to wherever you want. While I don’t waste money, I can afford to stay in nice places and visit expensive destinations when I want to. I am the exact opposite of a starving writer – I make a good living at it! In Cordoba, Argentina, I spent about $4,300 on the whole trip but invoiced $6,700 of writing work while I was there, so I made money while on the road and saw an interesting place, which was pretty cool! Even with all the traveling I did, I still earned well over $50,000 last year.


Over the past 15 months, I’ve spent a month in the Bolivian jungles (last July) and a week on a Great Barrier Reef island (October), had two weeks exploring Tasmania (January), enjoyed 5 weeks in a comfortable AirBnB apartment in Argentina (May) and visited Spain, Portugal and Italy over the European summer (July and August). Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, published in 1963 This classic book about a kid who gets sent to bed without dinner and experiencing dreams about going on adventures with wild things, was banned as soon as it was released and has been considered one of the top 100 most banned books as recently as 2009.
