Back When a Laptop on the Beach Was Still a Dream

By Fort Woods · November 3, 2025

While working remotely from anywhere in the world is a seamless reality today, achieving that dream in the mid-2000s meant wrestling with 5 KB/s GPRS data, short-lived laptop batteries, and the ubiquitous fallback of teaching English.

Starting A Better Living Quest

By Fort Woods · October 3, 2025

Following a grueling four-year off-grid homesteading experiment in Arizona that took a heavy toll on our health and finances, my family made the radical choice to leave the U.S. behind to pursue a fresh start and a healthier lifestyle in the Philippines.