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South Beach and the Miami Beach skyline seen from the rocks at South Pointe

Leaving Is the Half You Forgot

The standard nomad domicile plan goes like this. Pick South Dakota or Florida or Texas. Sign up with a mail-forwarding service. Fly in for a weekend, get the driver’s license, register to vote, and leave. Congratulations: you’re a resident of a state with no income tax, and

A crowded hillside market near Lalibela, Ethiopia

The Price of One Star

I stopped leaving negative reviews years ago. Three minutes in a market outside Lalibela is most of the reason.

Your Medication Is a Logistical Project. Treat It Like One.

Your Medication Is a Logistical Project. Treat It Like One.

I carry four prescriptions, nitroglycerin, Paxlovid, and a pile of other things. I've been through customs with dogs in Ecuador and machine guns in Iraq. Here's what eleven years of this actually looks like.

An empty wooden chair under a single spotlight on a bare stage, a folder of papers on the floor beside it, rows of empty theater seats in the dark beyond

You Won

Six financial advisors auditioned. Most skipped the hard problem, and my favorite looked at the balance and said, “You won.” What fee-only actually buys, and why the hire isn’t for me.

An office walkway in the Seychelles

The $800 Corporation

Eleven years, one Seychelles corporation, zero payroll tax: the legal architecture, the real costs, and what it does to your Social Security check.

A passenger in an orange life vest on a river boat

The Life Insurance Nobody Will Help You Leave

Everyone will sell you cash-value life insurance and everyone will tell you not to buy it. Nobody will help you get the money back out. The exits, the tax traps, and where I landed.

A Thai Airways plane at a gate at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport

Four Passports and Nothing to Hide

Two Americans, four identical blue passports, and a Bangkok immigration officer with her hand out. Why the one thing I have never managed to travel lighter on is proof I'm allowed to travel.