Laptop Travel Lifestyle

Rolf Potts has reported from more than fifty countries for the likes of National Geographic Traveler, National Geographic Adventure, Conde Nast Traveler, Slate.com, the New York Times Magazine, Outside, Islands, The Believer, The Guardian (U.K.), and National Public Radio. A veteran travel columnist for the likes of Salon.com and the Travel Channel's World Hum, his adventures have taken him across six continents, and include piloting a fishing boat 900 miles down the Laotian Mekong, hitchhiking across Eastern Europe, traversing Israel on foot, bicycling across Burma, and driving a Land Rover from Sunnyvale, California to Ushuaia, Argentina.

Potts is perhaps best known for promoting the ethic of independent travel, and his book on the subject, Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel (Random House, 2003), has been through seven printings and translated into several foreign languages. His writing for National Geographic Traveler, Slate.com, Lonely Planet, and Outside garnered him Lowell Thomas Awards in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007; and he's been cited as an expert on independent travel by publications around the world, from National Geographic Adventure, to TIME Asia, to Italy's La Stampa daily, to the Australian Financial Review.

Though he keeps no permanent residence, Potts feels somewhat at home in Bangkok, Cairo, Pusan, New Orleans, and north-central Kansas, where he keeps a small farmhouse on 30 acres near his family. Each July he can be found in France, where he is the summer writer-in-residence at the Paris American Academy.

Read Rolf's inspiring book: Vagabonding - An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

Hey, my profile may be a bit different than most of the ones on this blog. I don't make my living from my laptop but I do communicate with my agent and arrange my gigs, so my laptop does help me make a living while traveling :-).

I'm a pole dancer (stripper) and my laptop lets me work anywhere I like. I realize my career has a shelf life and I'm looking into other ways to satisfy the travel bug in me, while making that all-important income on the road.

Kisses,

Holly

The Extreme Laptop Travel Lifestyle

Author and filmmaker, Robert Young Pelton is known for overcoming extraordinary obstacles in his search for the truth. He has made a career of bypassing the media, border guards and the military in his goal of getting to the heart of the story. In his travels to and through the world’s most dangerous places, Pelton has shared risks with his hosts and often has become the sole surviving witness to history-shaping events. His recent journeys have taken him inside the siege of Grozny in Chechnya, the battle of Qala-I-Jangi in Afghanistan, the rebel campaign to take Monrovia in Liberia, inside the hunt for Bin Laden in the Tribal Areas with the CIA, with insurgents during the war in Iraq and running RPG Alley every day for four weeks with Blackwater in Baghdad.

Read about this inspiring laptop traveler/photographer/filmmaker on his 'Come Back Alive' website.

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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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Inspire someone with your story.

If you are full or part-time laptop traveler, or developing the income stream(s) to live the laptop travel lifestyle of the working nomad/notebook vagabond, we welcome your profile, story or press realease.

If you'd like to become a Laptop Travel Lifestyle contributor, your stories and articles are welcome.

We are prepared to pay for helpful well-written articles from regular contributors.

Contact us at submissions@colewiebe.com.

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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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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