It’s likely you’ve come to the About page because you want a simple answer: who am I, and why the hell should you listen to anything I have to say?

Well, you shouldn’t. That’s kind of my whole point. In fact, I don’t think you should listen to anyone. Not at the expense of your own ideas, anyway.

But maybe you can still get something out of being here.

In my life I have made tremendous amounts of ill-advised decisions, given huge amounts of money to the wrong people, started up the wrong businesses, and moved to countries I’d never even visited before, without doing any research or considering how I was going to fund my existence. I did all these things after many intelligent people told me not to do them.

The result has been that I’ve seen, done, and experienced more than most, and after a couple of country-hops I’ve ended up on the Turkish riviera, which ain’t half-bad. I haven’t held a regular job since I was 19 (despite being told that it would be impossible to live without a job), I didn’t go to university until I was 26 (despite being led to believe that my life would be ruined if I didn’t go immediately after high school), and I didn’t do any of the things I was “supposed” to do in the time frame I was supposed to do them, if at all.

And you know what? My life has been interesting and rewarding. It’s fantastic not being held back by other people uttering the word “but…”

So half this blog is for the people who, on a regular basis, ask me how it’s possible to do the things I’ve done with no money and no job. It’s not about considering possibilities, it’s about making whatever odd decisions you want and just going with them. And if there’s one thing humans are good at, it’s making odd decisions. The thing is, you have to learn to accept and enjoy that your unconventional choices may result in unconventional outcomes.

The other half of this blog is about fun and different things I discover in my travels, because I just can’t focus solely on the serious stuff.

So there you go.

Rachel Kelso (pictured left) is a writer and photographer who lives in the United States. The faucet layout on this blog was designed using her photo, which she generously donated for the cause. You can see more of Rachel’s work over at DeviantArt.

The framework for the faucet layout was taken from Josh Lyman’s fantastically simple and flexible Travelogue layout.

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