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Exploring the Parisian Catacombs

Submitted by Evan Lovely on Sun Apr 15, 2012 - 03:13pm

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I was recently asked what my favorite travel story is, and this is it. I didn't take my camera with me as I was told we'd be getting wet, but I wish I did. Oh well. Makes the memories that much more savored. I did just jump around the webernets and have featured several pictures to share what it was like.

Paris ~ Summer 2006

My travel buddy and I were being shown around Paris by a native friend, and after a standard tour of the standard sites, I look over to my friend and ask: "Well, what do YOU do here? I know you don't go to the Eiffel Tour, hang out on the Champs Elysees, and gaze off the Arch di Triumphe in your spare time. What do you do for fun?" He turns to me, and gives me a sly look and says something I'll never forget in a purely Parisian accent: "Well, we go to the catacombs." He goes on to describe the underground network of caverns, tunnels, and caves that lie underneath Paris. How the tourist destination, the official Catacombs is a mere 5-10% of what is down there. How he has a map of what is called the Carrières de Paris or the Quarries of Paris. How he knows of several illegal entrances. And how it is awesome.

He tells us that we'll start at about 11pm and get done around 7am.

A Week of Rafting the Salmon River

Submitted by Evan Lovely on Thu Aug 25, 2011 - 12:40pm

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I went on a 6 night rafting trip with my Dad on the Main Fork of the Salmon River in Idaho, an 80 miles stretch of river through one of the most remote areas left in the lower US. SO awesome. I've been rafting with my Dad since I was 4, and being able to camp while rafting is truly one of the most enjoyable experiences. Being able to throughly disconnect from the external world is so cleansing and appreciated. I had no idea what time it was most of the time and even lost track what day it was a time or two. This river is called the "River of No Return" as it pretty much is one-way trips from East Idaho to West Idaho only. It is also the 2nd deepest river gorge in the continent, even deeper than the Grand Canyon, although it doesn't feel like it as much since it's a series of false summits. It flows into the deepest river gorge afterwards, the Snake River cutting through Hell's Canyon.

I'm traveling around the World for 6 months. While Working.

Submitted by Evan Lovely on Sat Jul 16, 2011 - 06:10pm

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Have you ever had something big you've always wanted to do? Something that seems improbable but undeniably alluring? Something that you could look back upon much later in life and smile deeply knowing you didn't let chances pass you by?

For me, it's been the idea of traveling while working part-time in a location independent career. I taught myself how to be a front end web developer and have emphasized learning how to do it in a way that the where does not matter. Most of the time that just means being able to enjoy working at my house part of the week and being able to make visits back home easier to swing. After reading the world altering 4 Hour Work Week and seeing that many concepts about work and life were outdated and unnecessary, and seeing that other people, like Sean Ogle and Cody McKibben, were pulling this off, I've realized that it could be taken so much further.

I realized that I could outsource myself and save money if I could be in a country where the cost of living was less than in US cities, while still earning US city wages by working on a laptop abroad, a form of Geo-Arbitrage.

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My Bucket List

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Welcome to my Bucket List. Inspired by Sean Ogle, Cody McKibben, and many others, I've decided to publicly keep a list of things I want to do before I die (or kick the bucket as the lists namesake is inspired by). I hope that the public nature of this inspires me to not let the opportunities pass that I claim to want. It's much easier to make excuses to yourself why you didn't do something that it is to explain to others why you didn't. Anyway, here goes: