Category: Best of 20LL

The Ultimate Minimalist Travel Gear List

Alright, “The Ultimate” Minimalist Travel Gear is relative. Even my gear list and Franklin’s gear list are different. My pack is not as small or light as some people’s. But this is my “ultimate” list. For now. I call it… The Ultimate Digital Nomad Graphic Designer on the Run From The Law Gear List. This post…
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The Importance of Sleep

When we talk about our health we usually first think of diet and exercise; I couldn’t tell you the number of conversations I’ve had, articles I’ve read, and books I’ve read that advocate this-or-that regiment of eating and working out to achieve the ultimate level of health. There’s a lot to be said in both…
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Conscious Decisions for Unconscious Improvement

So much of the quality of our lives is directly tied to our general physical well-being: sleep, nutrition, exercise, mental & emotional health, etc. For the most part, though, these things affect us subconsciously. You don’t eat healthy and get a good 8-hour nights sleep and decide the next day, “Hey, I ate and slept…
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Two Types of Productivity

The 20 Liter Life team, along with a few of our friends, have embarked on a month-to-be-remembered in terms of productivity levels. It even has a catchy name: Productober. The goal of Productober is to increase productivity, decrease spending (increase savings), and increase health. September was a down month for me in all of these…
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Vietnam Road Trip

20 Liter Life makes its first video content debut! Right now I’m severely restricted by video editing software & hardware (read: this video is horribly edited), but at least you get a little looksie. (Click HD in the lower right and watch on Vimeo!) When we decided to stay in Vietnam for a full nine…
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Taj Mahal, Agra, India

I didn’t want to go to the Taj Mahal. I figured I’d seen it – in books and movies, on tourism posters, again and again. In DeLillo’s White Noise, there’s this trope about “America’s Most Photographed Barn,” which is a completely unremarkable barn in the Midwest that becomes famous for the stream of tourists who are…
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Hampi, India

The overnight bus from Goa to Hampi was miserable (but not as bad as our second one would be). It’s not that it’s all that uncomfortable in the bunk, it’s just impossible to sleep when it feels like you’re on a Mars landing mission with a drunk driver. Alas, we made it to Hampi in…
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Minimal Travel Gear

Tynan, who’s writing much aided and inspired our minimal travel gear gathering phase, said, “the less I travel with, the better my experience is,” and I tend to agree. That’s why Franklin and I decided to travel as minimally as we could, hence “20 Liter Life” (the size of my pack). When I’ve shown people how…
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