Laptop Travel Lifestyle

Dropped out, but no drop out.

Anthony's office is no longer at the end of an overcrowded train journey. Over the last six months it has been where he has chosen. His office is a cafe by the beach on a tropical island, a cool hill station in the mountains or an airplane at 30,000 feet.

Anthony Page (Working Nomad .com) was in 1995 sentenced to life in the corporate world of information technology. After 7 years of labour he was let out on parole for good behaviour and then started to discover our wonderfully diverse planet through independent budget travel.

In November or 2003 he was returned to inside the prison walls of the City of London and once again found himself in a suit and at the mercy of big business. You need funds to travel and Anthony's only way to make money was to do what he knoew best and what society deems correct.

Temporary escape from the rat race was not enough and Anthony started to seek out ways of maintaining an incomve independently and remotely. Not being chained to office politics, bad coffee machines and long English winters was his target and dream.

In October of 2005 Anthony left an autumnal Heathrow Airport with a backpack, a laptop, a small income stream from his web sites and a dream. He set out to travel around Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand entirely funded by income from the web.

Anthony's trip has been a heady concoction of free wifi spots, making many new friends, living the tropical island life and the odd 13 hour bus journey with angry teams of Indonesian huskers.

He has managed to find the perfect balance between adventure travel and building up a sustainable income and has proved that the Internet is truly changing the the way people can live their lives.

Six months and seven countries later Anthony is still living his dream as a 'working nomad'. Over this period of time Anthony's income from web sites has trebled and he will return home in profit. His dream of having an independent portable career is now reality.

The most satisfying part fro Anthony is the positive feedback he gets from his personal travel blog (www.workingnomad.com) which is inspiring others to make the break to freedom.

Read Anthony's Aug. 12/07 comment on this blog.

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You've probably seen the ads for Ty Coughlin's Reverse Funnel System. Ty claims to make over $200,000 per month from his laptop computer.

Ty was a construction worker until a few years ago, has since purchased a lavish beachfront home in Hawaii and spends much of his time traveling, monitoring his business by laptop computer.

Ty Coughlin created a system, that is converting like no system anyone has ever heard of. He hired $20,000 per page copywriters, world class programmers, and consulted with the who’ who of Internet Marketing…to put together a fully automated system that makes it’s users $1,000 sales all day long.

Ty claims you need absolutely no previous skill, knowledge, or experience and the system will work the exact same for whoever uses it.

Is Ty the only one making money from selling his Reverse Funnel System, or has he developed a system the average traveler and home business owner can use to make an extraordinary income? Guru or scammer? Are the endorsements on his site fake, as they are on most get rich web-mercials? I've Googled him and all I've found is a lot of people plugged into his system, promoting it. I'm looking into the Reverse Funnel System and will keep you posted. I look forward to your comments.

Check out Ty Coughlin's site.

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A few years ago I took a break and went to the high arctic for fifteen months. I lived on the land with the Inuit for periods of time, living off game and fish.

One day I was out hunting with some friends and one of them pointed to a pond, some distance away, asking me if I'd seen the ducks land. Being one of the few white men up there, I was often the butt of their jokes, so I wondered if they were pulling my leg. One of the hunters was a pastor at the local church. I looked to him and he nodded, indicating there were indeed ducks in the pond.

I grabbed my shotgun and began my trek towards the pond over the rough tundra. When I got there, sure enough, there were three ducks. The natives would likely have waited until all three were in close proximity, shooting them all with one shot. Being a kabloonak (white man), I felt that would be entirely unsporting. I flushed the birds into the air. To my dismay, they split at hard angles. I shot the far left bird but discovered the other two were already out of range for my 20ga. 'gentleman's gun'.

I picked up the single duck and headed back to camp. When I returned I could hear them howling with laughter. "What now?" I demanded, a bit annoyed. "Silly white man." one of them replied, "On the way back you stop and look at your duck. Oh, nice duck! While you look at the duck them other two fly right over your head and land right back in same pond. Ha, ha! Great white hunter, the great white wolf of the north." I never lived the nickname down.

Over time the name became inextricably linked with the many fond memories of my northern adventure. When I returned to the south I began signing illustrations and airbrush artwork with White Wolf and my design company became Whitewolf Design & Media Group.

Visit Travels North for more information about travel to the arctic.

Here's a little inspiration someone recently shared with me. Every time you come back to your laptop in the hotel room you'll be greeted with gorgeous 3D animation. Best part... they're free!

You do have to install the free toolbar, but you can deactivate it after you download the screensaver :-).

Tim went from $40,000 per year and 80 hours per week to $40,000 per month and only 4 hours per week.

Imgine... a half million a year income, only working half a day per week! Talk about having your cake and eating it too.

In his new best selling book, Tim tells you how to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you really want. Aside from a Monday morning check of your emails from your laptop, you're as free as a bird.

I couldn't put his book down. I've been happy making a portable income from my laptop for the past few years. Tim demonstrates that it's possible to make a spectacular portable income while hardly working at all, joining the 'new rich'. Now that's a laptop lifestyle!

Tim encourages his readers to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and frequent mini-retirements.

More information on Tim Ferris:

Tim's book: The 4-Hour work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

Tim's website: TimothyFerris.com

TIm's blog: The Blog of Tim Ferriss

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