Marginal Boundaries

Modern Mexico: The Real Story

T.W. Anderson — Mon, 28 May 2012 03:01:47 +0000

If you turn on the news from anywhere in the United States you’ll only ever hear one story about Mexico: that it’s a dangerous place full of thieving Mexicans, dangerous criminals, bloodthirsty cartels and random acts of violence. You’ll only ever see Mexico mentioned when it’s in relation to some horrific cartel-on-cartel battle.
I am constantly fielding emails from people asking me about the violence in Mexico. Is it safe? Can I bring my family there? Am I going to ...

Reading the signs of the times

T.W. Anderson — Thu, 24 May 2012 14:18:33 +0000

“The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.”
The words of Machiavelli ring true even after all these centuries. Consequently, the principles laid out in The Prince have also been used by the ruling elite and the richest men of the world since he wrote it. It’s a book that is all about how to create and hold onto a kingdom, or a nation, ...

The Secret of My Success: The Tech Guy

T.W. Anderson — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:47:57 +0000

Everyone has an origin story, a brithplace. Somewhere where the journey started, where the lure of the open road first tugged at the heart strings. A place that defined the rest of your life with a single epiphany: the world beyond the horizon is the world that you must see.
These are the hidden stories, the behind-the-scenes tales of expats living in other countries without the limelight of professional blogging or being part of the travel celebrity scene. These are ...

The Inspiration of Your Youth

T.W. Anderson — Sat, 19 May 2012 13:13:27 +0000

Everyone has an origin story, a birthplace. Somewhere where their journey started, where the lure of the open road started. A place that defined the rest of your life with a single epiphany: the world beyond the horizon is the world you must see.
This calling, this inspiration, was for most of us at the dawn of our first life-altering moments of clarity as youths. We saw a movie, watched a television show, read a book or had a book read ...

The Secret of My Success: ProWebCom

T.W. Anderson — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:13:17 +0000

For those of you who have been following along, I’ve been dropping hints the past couple of weeks about our Secret of My Success series. During the previews I have been telling my readers that we were going to do something a little different than most other travel blogs who only ever interview other travel bloggers or travel celebrities. I wanted to go a step beyond that and show you the other side of the coin: the numerous online entrepreneurs who make ...

Retirement Costs of Americans Versus Expats

T.W. Anderson — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:40:34 +0000

Good grief…can it get any more expensive just to live in the United States? How many people are going to willingly keep flogging themselves while trying to climb that never-ending stair of indentured servitude?
In another prime example of why it’s so important to cast off the bow lines (as Mark Twain once famously said) and set off to distant shores, healthcare for retired individuals is rising again, with a 4% increase in just a single year. The estimated cost ...

The Secret of My Success: This Month at Marginal Boundaries

T.W. Anderson — Fri, 11 May 2012 23:09:37 +0000

In today’s day and age there are a hundred different blogs and websites that you can stumble upon while browsing through websites with information for travelers, all of them written by expats and digital nomads around the world. With the advent of the Internet has come the ability to be global in every sense of the word, and for the enterprising, entrepreneurial nomads of this century it is no different than it has been at the start of any new era ...

The benefits of immersion travel

T.W. Anderson — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:55:24 +0000

A few weeks back I did a YouTube video on the subject (see bottom of the page for the embedded version for those of you who aren’t subscribed to the channel), but I wanted to cover the topic a little more in-depth in a blog post/newsletter so that you can understand more than what I rambled on about in the vid.
I promote immersion travel; that’s the basis of my immersion guides sold here through Marginal Boundaries, as well as ...

It’s the same story everywhere

T.W. Anderson — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:43:51 +0000

Every day the news (regardless of your preferred medium) delves into the ongoing global crisis that has defined the first couple of decades of the 21st century. Every day we hear stories from countries around the world where people are living in abject poverty, their riches stripped away from them and their livelihoods buried in the dust. From the United States to Spain to Greece and beyond, more and more everyday people are waking up to the reality that their governments can ...

Backpacking Versus Living Abroad as an Expat

T.W. Anderson — Fri, 04 May 2012 18:40:35 +0000

Backpacking is traveling around the world living the life of a vagabond. It’s surviving in hostels and scrounging up change to pay for street food and whatever local produce you can pick up on the cheap. It’s about sleeping in places without AC, without heat, without hot water, without modern amenities and without creature comforts…sometimes with little creepy, crawly friends who have six or more legs. It’s backpacks and free grass and dreadlocks and pub crawls and hostels and unshaven dudes/chics ...