Welcome to the second edition of the Location Independent Blog Carnival. Each month the carnival is hosted by a different blog in the location independent community. The editor reviews the submissions and publishes the best of them in a roundup post. Submit your articles here for a chance to be featured in the next edition. Drumroll, please … here are the best of this month’s entries.
Doing Business Abroad And Online
Nora Dunn shares Live and Work Overseas Freelancing on the Web: Jobs to Finance Your Travels posted at Transitions Abroad, saying: “Find your online freelancing career and take it online and on the road! This article discusses how to make that happen.”
Thursday Bram shares The Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland Hires a Blogger posted at Hyper Modern Writing.
The Smarter Wallet shares Why Work At Home? Top Reasons For Staying Home To Work posted at The Smarter Wallet.
Lifestyle Designing
Liz shares Four Challenges of Extreme Telecommuting posted at Extreme Telecommute.
Cath Duncan shares How to Find & Connect with Your Tribe When You’re Location Independent posted at Mine Your Resources.
Cherie Ve Ard shares It’s Not an Extended Vacation posted at Tales from Technomadia, saying: “Defining how full time nomadic travel and work are not exactly the same as being on vacation all the time.”
Thursday Bram shares Won’t Somebody Please Think of The Children? posted at Working Your Way Around The World.
Cody McKibben shares What is this Location Independence Stuff? posted at Viralogy Experts, saying: “Location independence is a form of lifestyle design, consciously building a business that one can operate from anywhere in the world to support you in your ideal lifestyle—whatever that means for you. Here’s a video about my personal experience living nomadically for the last 8 months in Thailand.”
Vagabonding/Travel Stories
Katie Sorene shares 12 Secrets of a Modern Day Nomad posted at Travel Blog – Tripbase, saying: “Interview with Gary Arndt from Everything Everywhere travel blog – eternal traveler and modern day nomad!”
Andy Hayes shares Travelling a Little Adrift with Shannon posted at Sharing Experiences, saying: “In this interview, I talk with Shannon with the blog A Little Adrift, where she gives us some insights on her “quarter life crisis” and her several month trip. It shows the pitfalls of roaming the world – she’s now planning a semi-LIP career once she gets back home so that she can head back out on the road! 
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Baker shares Backpacking With A Baby: Couchsurfing Townsville posted at Man Vs. Debt.
Henry shares Road Trip South of Playa Samara – Saturday 4-11-2009 posted at Finding Freedom, saying: “This is a posting from my five week trip to Costa Rica. While abroad, I met many wonderful people with whom I connected more deeply in days than folks I have known for years at home. This article covers a day long road trip I took down the Nicoya Penninsula of Costa Rica with a few new friends.”
LIP Destinations
Andy Hayes shares Location Independent in Phuket posted at Sharing Experiences.
Technology And Gadgets For Digital Nomads
Lea Woodward shares Google Gears: And How It Can Help The Location Independent Professional posted at Location Independent Blog.
Sue Jeffels shares Location Independent Writing and Research posted at writing and research.
Anil shares An Amateur’s Guide to Location Independence [Part 1 of 3] posted at foXnoMad.
Tips For Location Independent Living
Jeanne Dee shares How To Do Extended Travel & Mini-retirements posted at soultravelers3, saying: “This is a classic piece filled with lots of great advice for doing extended travel and tons of helpful links. It is particularly helpful for families and those that do not realize that one can live large on little in Europe. We have traveled as a family & lived as digital nomads since 2006, been to 4 continents, 29 countries, over 87,000 miles & over 3 million views of our soultravelers3 youtube videos so far!”
Silicon Valley Blogger shares Your Home Office: Ideas To Set Up Your Place of Work posted at The Digerati Life.
Article by Sharon Hurley Hall
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A fantastic round-up Sharon, and thanks for the inclusion! Off for some reading….
.-= Andy Hayes´s last blog ..Down the Road: Bicycle Touring Around the World =-.
Twitter: shurleyhall
July 17, 2009 at 06:51
Wow! You were quick off the mark, Andy. Haven’t even had a chance to tweet it yet
Lots of great stuff to read today. Thanks, Sharon!
.-= Liz @ ExtremeTelecommute´s last blog ..My Job is Making Me Fat: Weight Loss Strategies for Extreme Telecommuters =-.
Great carnival, Sharon! Out of curiosity, who’s in charge of lining up hosts for the carnival? I’d be up for taking a turn.
.-= Thursday Bram´s last blog ..My Sister’s French Connection =-.
Twitter: shurleyhall
July 17, 2009 at 16:34
Thanks, Thursday. Cody McKibb’s in charge of it. I’m pretty sure he’s on the lookout for a host for next month
Twitter: GeorgeAngus
July 18, 2009 at 14:31
Sharon,
Awesome! This post will have to be bookmarked in my resources section because quite a few of these look to be must reads!
Cheers!
George
.-= Tumblemoose´s last blog ..Vintage Typewriters and Deviled Ham =-.
This is a great roundup – I can’t wait to read all the articles!
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