I was a guest on The Breaking Free Show with Marilyn Shannon tonight. We were talking about freedom and breaking free from the ideas and mindsets that keep us captive. At one point in the interview, Marilyn turned to me and said, “So what are dreams for you? If you’re living your dream, then what...

Happy New Year vagabonders! As we head into 2010, let's think about going further than making New Year's Resolutions. Brave New Traveler advocates making your own personal manifesto . Start writing down goals, collecting articles and pictures, putting anything vagabonding-related into it. Instead of a new year resolution that's filed and forgotten, a personal manifesto...

I’m not a fan of once-a-year resolutions. I usually try to be mindful—throughout each week, month and year—to make changes and adjustments in my life as I need them. Just like those yearly resolutions, sometimes my intentions work and sometimes they don’t. That’s why, every Jan. 1, I try to set the tone for my...