Author: Anwell
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How To Safely Explore America While Living in Your Van or Car
In October of 2015 I moved out of my apartment in North Carolina and into a 1998 Dodge Ram 1500 Van. I was not evicted, just bored with the same old predictable way of suburban life, doing the same things over and over, seeing the same people over and over. Tired of paying rent month…
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Chasing Rainbows in Ireland (Part Two)
…So I arrived at the bus station in Cork, it was late, around 10:30 pm. Then I took a taxi to the house I was staying at via my couchsurfing “reservation”. I did not realize how far out it was in the country! So it was completely outside of Cork, about 45 mins north of…
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Bruce Lee’s Approach to Life: Be Like Water
I just finished reading, “The Warrior Within” which summarizes the philosophy that Bruce Lee lived by and suggested to others. Below are the main points. Lee has a decidedly Taoist approach to life. You should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous. No straining or unnatural striving Trust your mind, let it work by…
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Understanding The Mysteries of the Universal Tao
We live in a universe of opposites and it will always be this way, yet there are numerous degrees within each pole. Opposites when combined create a third thing… Black and white combined creates grey, man and woman combined creates child, day combined with night creates dusk / dawn, yes combined with no creates maybe,…
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Exploring The Lovely & Grand Country of Ireland (Part One)
I’ve been all over Ireland (including Northern Ireland). My first adventure there was in 2009. I love the idea of Ireland but the actual place is not as satisfying as my imaginations about it. As a child, some of the earliest ideas I had of Ireland came from an Irish Spring soap commercial and a…
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Our Culture Has A Savage History with Medieval Ideas
Life is no less miraculous and awe-inspiring without the notion of a creator God as depicted by billions of people in their literal interpretations of the Bible. If people were told that hell did not exist, would they still go to church or call themselves Christians? We have a church on every corner in these…
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There are So Many Churches, but So Few Christians
The whole point of life is to evolve – and yes to create a kind of Utopia, a kind of heaven on earth. Can it happen? I believe it can, it just takes a really damn long time. Seems like the Native Americans were doing well until Mr. Puritan came along with his guns and…
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Happiness… It’s Somewhere in the Middle
Reality is never as good or as bad as I imagine it to be. It’s somewhere in the middle. It never quite lives up to the hype and it never truly is like living in a lake of fire either. The Buddha called this Dukkha, the Bible calls it the vicissitudes of life. Take the…
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My 6 All-Time Favorite Cities (and why)
Hong Kong New York New Orleans Amsterdam Berlin Portland I am a lover of beauty and music and women and serenity and spontaneity and nature. A quality and feeling of unpredictable-ness, that anything can happen and does happen. I’m not cut out for the pleasant but predictable areas for long. They are nice to unwind…
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Travel Light My Friends… Travel Light
Its cliche but I cannot overestimate how important it is to travel light, especially if you are living in your van, car or RV. Clutter can lead to madness in those situations. You never want to look or feel like a bum or a pack-rat or a hoarder. If you must have stuff, get a…