Recommended Travel Reading

I thought I’d take an opportunity to recommend some travel reading that can help you find a way to fund your travels so you can get out of the cold and head somewhere with a nicer climate. Each one of the following books details how to travel cheaply, or how to establish an income and use your website or an online service or brand to generate cash to provide for your travels around the world. Enjoy!

The Expat Guidebook

The Expat Guidebook is a 568-page eBook that goes behind the scenes of the expat lifestyle, complete with a laid-out map of how to achieve a life of absolute creative and financial freedom via full time travel or location independence, in any corner of the world that you want to call home.

This isn't a book about backpacking, living on X dollars per day, being an international vagabond or living in bug-ridden hostels with no hot water or CouchSurfing and budget-traveling on bread-crumbs. This is a book for professionally-minded people who want to establish themselves as independent global citizens utilizing the power of the Internet, social media, joint ventures and lifestyle management to achieve a life of absolute freedom free of the Matrix.

Inside you'll find information on:

Setting up residency in countries around the world.
How to provide proof of income to governments even if you don't necessarily meet their income requirements
How to avoid paying outrageous prices on air-fare and round-trip tickets
Tax havens, international investments, real-estate and mortgages abroad
Cultural immersion and language immersion
Secondary residencies and passports
The benefits of immersion travel versus backpacking
How to live like a local in countries around the world where you can utilize local costs of living to drop your monthly bills from $2,500 - $3,000 a month down to $600 - $800 a month. All while maintaining your exact same standards of living, creature comforts, modern amenities, first-class healthcare and beyond
Hundreds of links to other resources you can utilize to get your location independent lifestyle as an international citizen started right now.

Beyond Borders - The Social Revolution

Beyond Borders from Marginal Boundaries is a book about using the power of the Internet, social media and globalization to take your passions and ideas and create an online income that you can then use to travel the world. It is the sister publication to The Expat Guidebook, but rather than focus on the art of traveling without a budget, Beyond Borders takes a look at the brand building aspect of social media, and how it has allowed anyone, anywhere, to transcend minimum wage slavery and create their own reality using nothing more than their imagination.

In the words of Lee from Travel and Thrive, Beyond Borders summarizes what is going on in the world both financially and socially by covering everything from the transfer of wealth that is occurring throughout the world to the shifts in money making opportunities to the potential realities that could come about from such changes, both positive and negative. Tim explains what the changes are, the new realities that are coming or are already here and the ways that anyone can create their own life of freedom in the process. His voice is blunt and straight forward, and chalked full of experience from having achieved his own life of freedom.

(Serious, I was getting a little giddy reading it myself, and getting fired up to move back abroad. Soon, I realized, it was because I had yet to find someone who encapsulated so well everything that is currently occurring worldwide and who translates that directly to the situation of any individual.)

While I paid attention to the comments of Lee, as quoted above, I found during the reading of the book that the author also laid out a roadmap of specific steps to embarking upon a life abroad that ranged from the creation of a variety of income sources into the resolution of settling into new cultures. His shared experiences showed how to assimilate into new cultures and how to deal with all the puppet-like strings that typically shake up your new life abroad. He explained page by page the subtleties involved.

I surely wish this valuable asset had been available years ago when I took a flying leap into "living in Spain for 2 years". My complicated and at times stressful adventure could have been so much simpler. The advice given in this book is given clearly and he pays close attention to the first faltering steps and how to proceed to reach a nice starting level of freedom. I'm sure most of you have read a lot of books like I have, that appear to start out at economic levels and opportunities which are out of reach of most of us...and yes, those publications do serve a purpose, but actually leave too many of us "out in the cold".

However, "Beyond Borders" is a good fit for the majority, and can over time, with the utilization of the methods laid out for you, really help you to reach those higher economic plateaus as you pursue your path on this freedom quest. This book give you a solid step to climb as you prepare for living abroad. It will help you create your own vehicles of freedom to fund your new lifestyle and a new perspective on a new way of living.

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